04-14-2024, 4:47pm
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A Real Barner
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Originally Posted by GTOguy
You'd be great taking the rest of us on a field trip in a van or bus, announcing shit like this. Seriously. I'd sign up. (I never knew about the girders)
Yadkin Tours: "Just ask the driver if you want to know!"
25 years ago, my father and I flew back to Chicago to go to my grandmother's funeral in Valparaiso, IND. On the return trip, we had time to kill, so we went to one of the closed down steel mills and stopped and dad told me every step the steel went through, from the smelting pot to the pour to the beams to sheet. He worked there in the summers of '47--'50 to go through college. Gary Indiana. It was fascinating stuff. He saw one guy fall into the vat and there was just a brief hiss of steam. Another guy, a huge black guy in his 30's, was a heroin addict and would race his Indian flat out around the plant on bets. The Mexicans would get drunk on Lucky Tiger hair tonic because it was cheaper than wine, and stronger. Fascinating stuff. He hardly ever talked about the past, and I soaked it up.
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