Ancestry Saturday: The Vindy State Desk

The Youngstown Vindicator Newsroom circa late 1940's

My Grandfather had a career with the Youngstown Vindicator spanning five decades from the 1930's through the  1970's.  He covered the infamous Sheet and Tube strike in June 1937 and wrote about getting shot at by Pinkerton guards in a story that hit the national news wire then.

His stories of The Vindy years where always great to hear.

I found this newsroom depiction handmarked "Youngstown Vindicator, the early days" in among Richard E. Platt's collection of memoirs.

He's depicted at a typewriter at the "State Desk" for the Vindy.  He was Assistant Editor at the State Desk early in his career.

Another ancestry find, kids.  Keep it.