spooky skeleton tiddlywinkler on Nostr: My granddad owned a barbecue restaurant. He didn't want to, but circumstances ...

My granddad owned a barbecue restaurant. He didn't want to, but circumstances conspired to put him in charge of learning everything about making and selling barbecue on a commercial level in the 1950's. His brothers convinced him to be the primary investor in the venture and then proved that they couldn't make it work well enough for him to get his money back, so he took it over.

He and his brother built two roughly identical pits. One in the back of the restaurant, and one in the brother's back yard. The idea was that if demand outstripped the restaurant pit, the brother would fire up the back yard pit to double their capacity.

The restaurant was torn down in the early 1980's, after my granddad died. The other pit is in the back yard of an abandoned house now. I tracked it down and took pictures of it.

The company that owns the property doesn't return my messages. I've considered just stealing it.