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The last Pakulski for a while now. Walter, Wanda and my mother’s mother Dolly in the late 1920’s. What happens when a man comes home from adventure… Walter was named Wladyslaw when his parents left him in Poland and moved to America. He traveled over by himself at the age of 12, just as the First World War was breaking out, and his name was Ellis-Island-ified.
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Maternal great-grandparents Walter and Wanda Pakulski at a hunting camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1940’s. Walter went out west in 1923 to San Francisco, did some logging up the Olympic peninsula and ended up in Alaska at a gold mining camp before heading back to the Motor City to woo Wanda with his tales of adventure.
Used to be a man went out and made his own world. Nowadays he feels entitled to it.
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My great-grandfather Walter Pakulski (left) at an Alaskan mining camp in approximately 1924. He rode the rails west to California in 1923 looking for a better life. Or maybe just adventure.
There are no heroes anymore, we only have swindlers, charlatans and crooks to show us the way.
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This is my great-grandfather Walter Pakulski at a hunting camp in Michigan in the 1940s. While you were busy looking for Easter eggs in GTA-SanAndreas, he went out and got the buck.
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Long story very short: my mother recently moved from PDX back to rural Michigan to take care of her very elderly parents. She’s been scanning the old family albums for me, as I never had much contact with either of my parents’ families in my life. I’ll be trickling some of these along over the next days. Here is my great-grandfather Walter Pakulski out west, sometime in the 1920’s. Got some great images from mining camps in Alaska and the traditional Michigan deer-hunt on the way as well.
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