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Post# 735392 , Reply# 1 2/15/2014 at 09:02 (3,716 days old) by akronman  (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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Akron OH was home to more rubber tire plants than anywhere else in the country, until about the 70's. Huge belching smokestacks. Depending on wind and hot summer days that held the pollution down near earth, outdoor laundry hanging was always an issue here. Goodyear Heights and Firestone Park, huge neighborhoods in the shadows of the smokestacks, had to deal with such dirt constantly. And the story is that in the non-air conditioned first half of the century, the secretaries at the plant offices had to wipe down desks and office furniture 2x daily. But boy did the paychecks roll in back then.
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Post# 735433 , Reply# 3 2/15/2014 at 13:24 (3,716 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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I remember traveling to Birmingham, AL in the summers. After dinner, on at least one night of the trip, Daddy would take us to the top of Red Mountain to see the statue of Vulcan. From up there we could look down and see the glow of the steel furnaces. | ||
| Post# 735571 , Reply# 4 2/15/2014 at 23:52 (3,716 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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| Post# 735587 , Reply# 5 2/16/2014 at 02:55 (3,716 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
 Here's a short movie showing Montreal in 1964, many buildings and roofs were black because of coal heating. I hope you can view it in the US.
The embed link doesn't seem to work but try to click on the first link below. It works from here.
by Jacques Giraldeau, National Film Board of Canada
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Post# 735632 , Reply# 6 2/16/2014 at 11:07 (3,715 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Phil, it worked great! Thank you. I had not thought about the Swingle Singers in decades. | ||
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