Working on Wednesday Revisited: Harold Delbert Currey (1902 - 1981), Electrician

Last week when I met up with a nephew and great nephew of Harold* we spent the day looking through old photo albums and reminiscing.

I've decided to share some more pictures of Dad and his work life that had escaped my notice in my original Working on Wednesday for him.

[Harold in the ash can, probably taken around 1920 when he was still an apprentice at Hartwell Electric.

Personal collection from Currey family photograph album]

[Title : San Diego, California, City Directory, 1920

Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.]

[Undatedi i.d. photo taken when electricians wore bow ties

Personal collection from Currey family photograph album]

[Harold worked on Mercy Hospital Convent and School of Nursing in 1927-28

Personal collection from Currey family photograph album]

[One of photos taken for CALEWO i.d. badge, late 1930s

Personal collection from Currey family photograph album]

[CALEWO i.d. badge, my personal collection]

Even though he didn't work at his trade after the early 1950s, Harold maintained his IBEW membership and was honored by the union almost exactly a year before his death.

[My personal collection]

I almost forgot to add that the address of the plating shop where Harold worked during the depression was 1655 India Street and there's now an Italian restaurant located there, possibly in the same building. We plan to have lunch there soon.

[Personal collection from Currey family photograph album]

*AKA the father who raised me.

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