Woodworking by McLaughlin's: March 2017

Guy's Dallas Center, Iowa Workshop

Guy Earl McLaughlin retired in 1995 from Westinghouse but continues to work supporting his testing equipment which had been purchased by some of his co-workers and moved the shop to Hobart, Indiana. He commuted to Hobart from Chicago, Il. for two years but decided to really retire in 1997.
He moved to Dallas Center, IA which is just West of Des Moines, IA. He now have a new house with a large garage to build a nice roomy workshop. This is the 3rd workshop he built and he has used it almost every day for the past 20 years (1997 - 2017) doing woodwork projects.

Here is the initial construction of his workbench

Here is the finished workshop (photos taken in 2010)

Guy's 2nd Workshop in Chicago - Completed

Here are some later photos showing the workshop in the detached garage on Christiana Ave. Guy lived here from about 1954 till 1997 and used this workshop for those 43 years. He worked at Westinghouse in Chicago so he was busy at work most of the time and didn't do much woodworking here. There was little space when the car was in the garage so he was really blessed when he got his third workshop in Dallas Center, Iowa.

Guy's second Workshop in Chicago on Christiana Ave (Early 1950's construction)

My parents split up while we were kids and he and his second wife Ella moved to a house West of
where they worked in Chicago. Guy had to rebuild his workshop in the early 1950's. We kids visited on Sundays and continued to learn to use tools in his work shop. We still have the workshop on Neenah to our selves.

Guy's First Workshop in Chicago on Neenah

We lived on 52nd and Neenah Ave on the South West side of Chicago. Near Midway Airport.
My dad built a workshop in the basement in the late 1940s which we kids used as well. Here are some photos in the 1950's of the workbench and John and I working with Guy Earl McLaughlin.

Ernest William McLaughlin's Langford, SD Workshop (about 1957)

My grandfather was Ernest William McLaughlin. He lived in Langford, Marshall County, South Dakota his whole life. He was one of three sons of William Earl McLaughlin. William E was known as "Billy Mac" and he was the owner of the "McLaughlin's and Sons Hardware store in Langford from 1905 till it was sold in 1947.