Comments on: O.J. Gude and me http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/ What's in a name? Just your whole life. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:31:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Julian http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Julian Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:24:39 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-573 Hi Bill, yes, I believe I know where your Uncle O.J. fits in. I'll check in with my Dad Lorenz and my Aunt Pat and perhaps my cousin Jeanne Gude about him. It's great that you took the time to write and I'll surely contact you. It's good to meet you. Cheers for now! - Julian Hi Bill, yes, I believe I know where your Uncle O.J. fits in. I’ll check in with my Dad Lorenz and my Aunt Pat and perhaps my cousin Jeanne Gude about him. It’s great that you took the time to write and I’ll surely contact you. It’s good to meet you. Cheers for now!

- Julian

]]> By: Julian http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Julian Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:22:32 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-572 Hi Dave, Nice to know you! I certainly look forward to speaking with you and lament my tardiness in doing so! -Julian Hi Dave, Nice to know you! I certainly look forward to speaking with you and lament my tardiness in doing so!

-Julian

]]> By: Bill Williams http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Bill Williams Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:08:50 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-571 My uncle was O.J. Gude. Her married my aunt Barbara Williams. I was born in 1946. Uncle Jay was a very gifted man who, I'm told, burned through money. As a very young boy, I remember riding in his MG. He was a pilot. He apparently had several planes when he lived on Long Island. I know he flew in the Berlin Airlift after WWII. I remember him taking me up in a Piper Cub once as a very young boy. He also worked as a cartoonist. He was an artist, among other talents. I have a drawing of a Curtis "Jenny" biplane that he did on cardboard and gave to me. I also have several brilliant letters that he wrote to me as a young boy, illustrated for birthdays and other occasions. Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's he and my aunt moved to the Seattle area. He was helping write and illustrate manuals on planes for Boeing. Something like that. Any idea whether he is part of your family. There seem to be too many connections to ignore, but who knows. Let me know at your earliest convenience. Thanks. My uncle was O.J. Gude. Her married my aunt Barbara Williams. I was born in 1946. Uncle Jay was a very gifted man who, I’m told, burned through money. As a very young boy, I remember riding in his MG. He was a pilot. He apparently had several planes when he lived on Long Island. I know he flew in the Berlin Airlift after WWII. I remember him taking me up in a Piper Cub once as a very young boy. He also worked as a cartoonist. He was an artist, among other talents. I have a drawing of a Curtis “Jenny” biplane that he did on cardboard and gave to me. I also have several brilliant letters that he wrote to me as a young boy, illustrated for birthdays and other occasions. Sometime in the late 50’s or early 60’s he and my aunt moved to the Seattle area. He was helping write and illustrate manuals on planes for Boeing. Something like that. Any idea whether he is part of your family. There seem to be too many connections to ignore, but who knows. Let me know at your earliest convenience. Thanks.

]]> By: Dave Gude http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Dave Gude Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:45:23 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-570 Hi Julian, I have stumbled recently on your OJ Gude story and would love to let you know about another branch of the Gude family. Let me introduce myself: David Warren Gude, born in 1957, living in Burlington NC and I grew up in Chatham NJ. I live with my wife and we have two children, a son and a daughter, college age. I work for Stevenson Vestal, a drapery wholesaler, doing web and print publications and sales and marketing work. It looks like you and I are 3rd cousins once removed. We share OJ Gude's parents, my great great grandparents Frederich George Gude (born 1826) and Louisa Wentz (born 1839) as our common ancestors. My part of the family decends from your great great grandfather OJ's brother, Arthur James Gude (born 1860). Browsing through your various blogs, it looks like we have a lot to discuss and a lot in common, including left handed guitar playing, technology, marketing and macs. My father, John Warren Gude (born 1921) is the oldest living Gude in my part of the family. He now lives nearby in Chapel Hill, NC. He has recently had contact from his previously unknown cousin Jeanne Gude Taysom and more recently had a phone call from your dad, Lorenz! This in part has prompted my renewed search for Gude history and living relatives. My dad tells of his father working on Time Square for his uncle Oscar, being hoisted up in a basket to change light bulbs for his signs! He also has a rousing version of the OJ story about Eating a Man Alive that apparently Jeanne also knows. My dad's branch of the family (his father and five siblings and their families) all settled in the West Caldwell NJ area. My dad, an engineer by training, made a large chart many years ago that shows many generations of Gudes. I am currently in the process of trying to combine that information with my wife's family history to create a mega-chart for my own kids. To begin I am organizing family history details (not complete yet though) on a free geni.com wiki. I would love to invite you to look at that and see how we are related and to build it with me. We could surely fill in many Gude gaps together. Julian, please contact me at dgude57@gmail.com or give me a call at 336-263-6088. I would love to get to know you and share our family histories. Cheers, Dave Hi Julian,
I have stumbled recently on your OJ Gude story and would love to let you know about another branch of the Gude family. Let me introduce myself: David Warren Gude, born in 1957, living in Burlington NC and I grew up in Chatham NJ. I live with my wife and we have two children, a son and a daughter, college age. I work for Stevenson Vestal, a drapery wholesaler, doing web and print publications and sales and marketing work. It looks like you and I are 3rd cousins once removed. We share OJ Gude’s parents, my great great grandparents Frederich George Gude (born 1826) and Louisa Wentz (born 1839) as our common ancestors. My part of the family decends from your great great grandfather OJ’s brother, Arthur James Gude (born 1860). Browsing through your various blogs, it looks like we have a lot to discuss and a lot in common, including left handed guitar playing, technology, marketing and macs. My father, John Warren Gude (born 1921) is the oldest living Gude in my part of the family. He now lives nearby in Chapel Hill, NC. He has recently had contact from his previously unknown cousin Jeanne Gude Taysom and more recently had a phone call from your dad, Lorenz! This in part has prompted my renewed search for Gude history and living relatives. My dad tells of his father working on Time Square for his uncle Oscar, being hoisted up in a basket to change light bulbs for his signs! He also has a rousing version of the OJ story about Eating a Man Alive that apparently Jeanne also knows. My dad’s branch of the family (his father and five siblings and their families) all settled in the West Caldwell NJ area. My dad, an engineer by training, made a large chart many years ago that shows many generations of Gudes. I am currently in the process of trying to combine that information with my wife’s family history to create a mega-chart for my own kids. To begin I am organizing family history details (not complete yet though) on a free geni.com wiki. I would love to invite you to look at that and see how we are related and to build it with me. We could surely fill in many Gude gaps together. Julian, please contact me at dgude57@gmail.com or give me a call at 336-263-6088. I would love to get to know you and share our family histories.
Cheers,
Dave

]]> By: Marcella http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Marcella Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:33:11 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-569 Hi Julian! Thanks so much for posting this information. I am ever curious and appreciate being able to google things and get an interesting answer. I am in the process of scanning old photo's from my husbands grandmother's photo album. Back in the late 19 teens or early 1920's this grandmother, Frances Nerich Rascoe and her husband, Henry W. Rascoe took a road trip from New York City to Oklahoma. Along the way they stopped and took quirky photo's. I would love to send you a copy of a billboard they are posed in front of that was put up by your great great grandfather's company. It very clearly has the "O J Gude Co NY" marking. Hi Julian!
Thanks so much for posting this information. I am ever curious and appreciate being able to google things and get an interesting answer.
I am in the process of scanning old photo’s from my husbands grandmother’s photo album. Back in the late 19 teens or early 1920’s this grandmother, Frances Nerich Rascoe and her husband, Henry W. Rascoe took a road trip from New York City to Oklahoma. Along the way they stopped and took quirky photo’s. I would love to send you a copy of a billboard they are posed in front of that was put up by your great great grandfather’s company. It very clearly has the “O J Gude Co NY” marking.

]]> By: Julian http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Julian Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:19:09 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-568 Hi Pete, Thanks for stopping by and reading more about O.J. May I ask what book you were looking at? I'd love to see the picture. Cheers! - Julian Hi Pete, Thanks for stopping by and reading more about O.J. May I ask what book you were looking at? I’d love to see the picture. Cheers!

- Julian

]]> By: Pete http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Pete Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:38:02 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-567 I thought it was cool, in a book of NY historical pictures I saw your great great grandfathers name on a small sign on a building, googled it, and now Im reading your piece. Amazing. I thought it was cool, in a book of NY historical pictures I saw your great great grandfathers name on a small sign on a building, googled it, and now Im reading your piece. Amazing.

]]> By: Get Shorpy - The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog « fading ad blog by Frank H. Jump http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-566 Get Shorpy - The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog « fading ad blog by Frank H. Jump Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:56:15 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-566 [...] Shorpy - The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog 19 10 2007 My buddy Julian Seery Gude, great great grandson of advertising pioneer OJ Gude, turned me on to this blog. Great vintage [...] [...] Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog 19 10 2007 My buddy Julian Seery Gude, great great grandson of advertising pioneer OJ Gude, turned me on to this blog. Great vintage [...]

]]> By: More on OJ Gude - The Patriarch of Outdoor Signage « fading ad blog by Frank H. Jump http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-565 More on OJ Gude - The Patriarch of Outdoor Signage « fading ad blog by Frank H. Jump Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:26:42 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-565 [...] I stumbled upon the weblog of OJ Gude’s great great grandson Julian Seery Gude, and I wrote him a letter. Here is what Gude commented on the fading ad [...] [...] I stumbled upon the weblog of OJ Gude’s great great grandson Julian Seery Gude, and I wrote him a letter. Here is what Gude commented on the fading ad [...]

]]> By: Julian http://www.blog.julians.name/2005/12/18/oj-gude-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Julian Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:17:59 +0000 http://www.blog.julians.name/?p=2#comment-564 Hi Frank, It was really great to get your comments and see your <a href="http://fadingad.wordpress.com/?s=gude" rel="nofollow">two photos</a> of the O.J. Gude Signs <em>still</em> in New York so many years after his passing. I am inspired and very appreciative of your own living legacy and your will to live through all you have. My hat is off to you. I will contact you via email to see how we might collaborate (I'd love to). Cheers Hi Frank, It was really great to get your comments and see your two photos of the O.J. Gude Signs still in New York so many years after his passing.

I am inspired and very appreciative of your own living legacy and your will to live through all you have. My hat is off to you. I will contact you via email to see how we might collaborate (I’d love to). Cheers

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