[ SECRET POST #2420 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2420 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Gross extended relatives

[ginainthekingsroad]

Ooh, I've got one! In 1974, my great-great grandmother was 70 and convinced she was going to die soon, so she wanted to see all of her relatives in Europe one last time. (side note: Nonna outlived them all, passing at 103 in 2008) She took my 14 year old mother with her, seeing friends and relatives in Italy, Austria, and her hometown of Fiume, which was in communist Yugoslavia (modern-day Rijeka, Croatia).

One of Nonna's sister's sons (or grandson?), my mom's uncle Luigi, drove them into the country because he had some business there. On the drive there, my mom was pretty uncomfortable in the backseat because the floor was covered in stuff with a blanket over it. She looked under the blanket and found a WHOLE BUNCH OF RIFLES. And was convinced that they were immediately going to be discovered at the Yugoslavian border, and with her American passport she was going to be detained and never see her family ever again. This was also about a week after Nixon's resignation. Anyway the car wasn't inspected and they got to Rijeka and back just fine.

Uncle Luigi allegedly died in a car crash on that same road into Yugoslavia a year or two later. My mom always wondered how accidental it really was...

Re: Gross extended relatives

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I hadn't thought of gun smuggling. Maybe I can pick up some points on this thread afterall. Go back a couple of decades in my family and you hit the IRA problem. Quite a lot of IRA and IRB activity on both sides :/

Your great-great grandmother sounds awesome.

Re: Gross extended relatives

[ginainthekingsroad]

Well she certainly lived a long long time and kept her memories late into her 90s. She remembered the outbreak of WWI as a girl in the Austro-Hungarian empire, and how they used to have a picture of the Kaiser in every room in her school. Her native language was Italian, but they did have to learn some German. Fiume was a weird independent state for a while between the wars, and she came to California in the 1930s. She was a seamstress and made nun's habits in San Francisco. On the whole though, she was not a particularly nice woman. She had terrible taste in men, and was verbally and emotionally abusive to just about everyone, her daughter especially.

The gun-running story is the only thing I know about Luigi. On my father's mother's side, there might have been some St. Louis-area Jewish mobsters, but we don't really know anything concretely.