Another conversation with my grandfather, Pete Davidson, this time about his work at Aramco and his life in Saudia Arabia in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Talking to Pop: Saudi Arabia circa 1950
October 30, 2010Talking to Pop: Returning to Cal (3 of 3)
October 16, 2010In our ongoing oral history of my grandfather’s life, Pete returns from WW II to school, meets my grandmother, and moves to Saudi Arabia for his first job.
Talking to Pop: Returning to Cal (2 of 3)
October 16, 2010In our ongoing oral history of my grandfather’s life, Pete returns from WW II to school, meets my grandmother, and moves to Saudi Arabia for his first job.
Talking to Pop: Returning to Cal (1 of 3)
October 16, 2010In our ongoing oral history of my grandfather’s life, Pete returns from WW II to school, meets my grandmother, and moves to Saudi Arabia for his first job.
Talking to Pop: WW II, part 2
October 9, 2010Fighting in the Pacific, stories with my grandfather, Pete Davidson. Every day life and problems of enlisted men in the 1897th Aviation Engineering Division from stateside training to New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan from February 1943 to January 1946.
Talking to Pop: WW II, part 1
October 9, 2010Pete talks about what happened the day after he walked into the draft office… every day life and problems of enlisted men in the 1897th Aviation Engineering Division from stateside training to New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan from February 1943 to January 1946.
Talking to Pop: going to Cal
October 2, 2010Today we talked about his time at Cal, before getting drafted, and some other interesting things — Old Fat Miller, his last summer in Vally Center, and more…
Another Saturday with Pop
September 26, 2010We spend another hour talking about Valley Center — and about Pop growing up and heading off to community college, and then to the University of California, Berkeley.
Talking to Pop
September 18, 2010Another hour with Pop – this time we talked about how he used to get Popular Mechanics; how kids didn't wear shoes; the Depression; FDR's election; a train trip cross-country with his father to pick up a new Buick and meet his grandfather when Pop was just 13; and so much more… I did have a smoke alarm go off at one point, but crisis was averted and the podcast continues…
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Saturdays with Pop
September 11, 2010This morning I did a podcast with my grandfather, Pete Davidson. We started at the beginning: with his birth in Venice Beach, California in 1923 and his growing up in Valley Center, California.
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As If It Matters 