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Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S
Like many of us, I grew up in the seventies. Reflecting back from today there are things I miss and don't.
Please share your '70s memories.
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I grew up across the street from the world's largest industrial complex, the Ford Rouge Plant. The one car factory in the world where cars would come in as raw materials and leave completed automobiles, they had their own steel plant, own glass plant, parts plants, all centralized and made on site.
Part of that operation was the electrical power generation and steel making operations (
blast furnaces, coke ovens) all coal powered.
I do not miss the coal.
I do not miss the pollution.
I do not miss the constant smell of sulfur like rotten eggs in hell.
I remember the sky darkening when the wind blew and the coal dust from the coal piles would cut lunch time recess short by forcing all the elementary children back indoors under the calling of the teachers.
I remember licking the top part of my lip, running outdoors with my eyes closed and coming back into the school with a proud coal mustache.
I do not miss the pain of coal in my eyes.
The list of things I miss is too long to list.
In case I wasn't clear, I do NOT miss coal.
