Posted by denglish on September 26, 2018 at 09:24:40 from (156.26.121.128):
In Reply to: Granite city steel posted by 37chief on September 25, 2018 at 17:05:57:
I grew up near GCS in the 70's by a town named Glen Carbon (horseradish capital of the world and former coal mine). GSC employed a lot of people at good jobs. Lots of my friend's fathers worked there. I used to ride my bicycle into Granite City and go there with my parents. Boy did their plant stink everyday! The air was really bad down there on a windless summer day and the houses along GCS fence line were coated with soot and inhabited by the very poor. It was a pretty nasty place then - but they were rolling full steam day and night it seemed.
There was a tavern not far from my house called Judy Inn that wold be full of those steel workers when they got off work. Kind of a rough place and the local scuttlebutt was that hookers operated on the second floor, which seemed plausible. When I was in high school we'd go in their during the day and play pool and sometimes ask those steel workers to buy us package beer, which they did on a few occasions.
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