Were you union by chance? Did you travel? My buddy has stories from New York to LA and all points in between. If you were union and traveled at all I wouldn't doubt it if you two crossed paths.
As mentioned, and I'm mostly posting this for posterity but, he's 78 and getting pretty close to the end, he doesn't have much family in this area and can't do much on his own so when we're together (once or twice a week) my #1 goal is to get him out into the desert where he starts to reminiscence. I also like to poke and prod him on his best years. I love to hear his voice perk up and then he starts rambling about living out of his camper in Wyoming and rabbit hunting for lunch meat, or how an earthquake hit Arco's, ID when he was working on the nuclear plant, or all the pool stories of him playing for 1 or 5 dollars a game (big money to him in the late 70's/early 80's). Or driving his International Harvester from Wyoming to Connecticut - in the winter - with no heater! Or using a Coleman lantern for heat in his 69 beetle when he had to sleep in it because he couldn't afford a hotel.
As I'm sure you, and most of us, are aware that the memories we put in our minds stay forever but, as we get older they are harder to access. What I have learned with him is if you poke and prod them about the things they love the memories just flow. I remember when he started going downhill a few years ago he was in my garage and we were working on my lathe and I was trying to figure out some math when turning down a piece of wood and I started writing down the fractions to calculate it and he just rambled off the number I needed and didn't even realize it. It's the same thing on a table, if he's struggling that particular day I start playing safe's, it makes him think and it all just comes natural. If he's struggling too bad I might shank a ball or two
If you were union what local? I'll bring it up and see if he knows of them.
Either way, don't hesitate to ramble on with your stories, I enjoy reading them