Factory truck

This is one of the trucks I drove---the

claw at the front grabbed a bottom part

of the gigantic spools, which were on 

wheels, and the spools were moved

from station to station in the 

manufacturing process.

Western Electric workers

I worked with these guys at the famous

Hawthorne plant of Western Electric the

summer after high school.  I didn't start this

sketchbook though 'til I was in college, so

obviously I returned to the plant to visit (unlikely)

or I worked over semester break.  It was the

night shift and I drove forklifts and other cool

propane powered vehicles, moving gigantic

spools of cables from station to station.  I

got the job, I'm sure, because my awesome

great-uncle Les was a mucky-muck at WE.

Bashir Assad

Here is a series of portraits
of guys whose daddies installed
them as their successors.