Rocketwhit and the Grayhaven Bowling Alley

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If you like reading about this kind of history of Grayhaven and Edward Gray, you'll like reading Hugh Dolan's account of a boating trip with Edward Gray- great story told during the Oral History recordings in the 50s and available on line from the Benson Ford Research Center. All the files are pdf files of manual typewriter copies, a little hard to read so I retyped this one, just the part of his adventure with Edward Gray. To set it up, imagine you're in the Chicago area and you're talking to someone about your background and it's in gas engines. This guy says, hey, I know someone in Detroit who's looking for people with your background. So you go to Detroit and talk with him [[Edward Gray) and get hired. On Saturday he takes you to the power plant area at Highland Park and shows you around. During that time he asks if you'd like to join him on his boat tomorrow [[Sunday-an August day in 1913) for a little outing. I don't think you'd say no, besides, it sounds like fun. Besides, you used to help service boats in Chicago so you know something about them anyway. The rest of the story of Hugh Dolan's adventure, he's a great story teller!