strap in, kick back, and examine this time capsule Gerstner machinists tool chest from the 40s to the 50s of Victor Vetuskey, who was a machinist and inventor at Kodak. This was stored from the 70s until now. Thanks to Brendon for sharing this terrific find!

WOW.....  WW2 era pinups!

The 1949 Indy 500 ticket was his, he attended it just months before his son was born.

The calendars seem to be from 1940 to 54

Just wow, you know? Not many guys do a nice cutout like this for their calipers, micrometers, depth, and inside micrometer tools.

how cool is that!

The crazy thing is this almost got thrown away, as Brendon's parents have no use for machinists tools, but c'mon! You know that anyone with a thing for cars and tools can't let this be neglected or abandoned, mush less disposed of!

note: some of the info says a last name of Witkowski- that is Brendon's family's original last name, but somewhere along the line the Polish pronunciation of "Witkowski" sounded like "Vetuskey" to someone and it was eventually changed over.

About 4 generations ago, a lot of people changed their last names a bit, I just discovered my friends great grandfather changed his last name from Hammonds to Hammons for example.

Victor Vetuskey was a product development/ inventor at Kodak, Rochester New York from the 1940's to the 1960's when he retired, he was famous for was the invention of a film projector that could go from forward to reverse without stopping in between.

Victor passed away at age 68 from an ice boating accident on Conesus lake.