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I think about my grandfather. Dad's dad. He worked at Amour and Co. from the day it opened in Oklahoma City, until the day it closed. I remember riding to the plant when grandma was dropping him off for work and the stink was horrid. It was a full on processing floor from cattle coming in to the kill floor, to train loads of meat leaving.
Next door was a rendering plant for the cattle or other livestock that died before slaughter. He said the floor where the cattle were skinned and they had stacks of skins that needed to be loaded on train cars to go to the leather facilities was horrible. Then they load the skins on a train car just salted down and retched smelling. Leather processing is stinky work.
When the depression hit he was making 2.5 cents per hour, and the management said they would not lay off anyone. They just had to share the same job. So some days you worked, some days the other guy worked.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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