My grandfather was a bit eccentric. A perennial inventor, the lore is that he was the one who originally created the slushie (frozen drink), but after sharing his idea with an investor, he was told it was ridiculous. And a few months later, the Icee came out and he made nothing. Sadly, in his later years he was quite senile and quite deaf, so there was no way for me to ever get the story from him.

When he died in 2005, my dad and his brothers cleaned out his storage space and found file drawers containing hundreds of invention ideas. That led me to start looking him up online, to see what I could find. One site I came across was GetGrandpasFBIFile.com.

The reason I bookmarked it was because I didn't have all the information I needed to fill it out and saved it for later, when I could ask my dad the pertinent info.

Think your grandfather might have an interesting past? Check it out… it's free.

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