In this episode of “All Things Wood Floor,” host Stephen Diggins welcomes New England legend Charlie “Big Charlie” Auditore, who was born in 1942, for an unscripted oral history of six decades in hardwood flooring—from post-WWII union jobs and on-site fistfights to million-foot parquet installs at Boston’s Prudential Center and iconic spaces like the Hatch Shell. Charlie traces his path from his father’s Allegheny Contract Flooring to founding Auditore Floors (later The Becht Corp.), sharing gritty stories of installing in Army base housing by the thousands, MIT’s exotic panga-panga parquet, Sydney blue gum for retail, iron-bound and cold-stick installs, and the evolution of sanding and finishing, including hand-scraping, shellac and moisture-cure urethane—including the health and safety consequences learned the hard way. He recalls union vs. non-union tensions, New York job-site politics (and stolen tools), riots in 1960s Boston and years running big crews across Maine and New England.
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