More Stories - The Collector

Harold Ratzburg was born at the start of the Great Depression and raised on a Dairy Farm in Wisconsin. He served four years in the US Air Force in the 50's and was stationed in Germany, where he met his wife Anneliese, who helped get him through College to become a Civil Engineer. After a time as a Highway Engineer and College Instructor, he wound up as a City Engineer of a small town in New Jersey. Twenty four years later he retired to become an old geezer telling old stories on his new fangled computer.

htm Christmas On The Farm                Merry Christmas!

htm   Raynond Arndt                     A Collector's Collector

htm   The Zippo Lighter Story          smoke 'em if you got 'em

htm    Military Dog Tags Follow up                       other uses

htm    The Dupont Gunslinger               firing his imagination

htm    The WW II Airborne Clicker                         not a toy

htm    U.S. Military Dog Tags                   gruesome thoughts

htm     A Farm Boy Learns About The Birds and Bees
                                                                          submarine races

htm     Early Marion                                        early memories

htm     A Farm Boy Remembers WW II
                                                                     drives and rationing

htm     You Collect What???                          early memories

htm     Great Depression Story                              making do

pdf       Snow and Cold                                      in the old days

pdf       Collector                                                          Part 1
pdf                                                                                 Part 2
                        A Young Airman in Post War Germany

htm         Did You Ever Wonder?

htm          Rommel's Goggles - American Made?

htm          The P-38 Can Opener

htm           What Am I Going To Do With All This Stuff??

htm            Telephone Lineman's Tool Oddities