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FROM BACK YONDER'But TheSmokestack Wasn’t MovedMany a change—everything's moved around except ftiaybe the boiler room and the smokestack/' observed Frederick Thornton after his sentimental journey back the Firestone plant this summer. He'd been gonesince the late 1920s.Mr. Thornton, now retired and living in Columbia, S* C„ came with Mrs. Thornton and some other mem-bers of the family to visit here, look for old acquaintances—and to bring along two old photographs *r°m the era when he was employed here—almost six Vears before Firestone purchased the mill.Thornton came to work here in the early 1920s and stayed on the job until around 1929 when he went with Continental Can Co. in Baltimore. He retired there five years ago and moved to Columbia.His keepsake photo of the mill here appears to have been made on a quiet Sunday morning—or was it during a vacation shutdown? The group picture of the cloih-room crew is of around 1928-29 vintage.The people? Miss Marguerite Siyers, secretary to the division general manager, sought the help of her sister (Mrs. Mattie McCann—second from left, back row, and now retired) for identification of most of the persons in the group. Does anyone identify the 'unknowns'?Front, seated from left: Mrs. Clara Wilson; Unknown; Callie Oliver, Dolly Brown; Unknown; Jane Padgett. On knees, from left: Dorothy Short, Mrs. Nina Dilling, Mrs. Fay Crenshaw Sahms, Meita Francis.Gertrude Bradley, Dessie Short, Gertrude Clouse, Basha McMahann, Naomi Owens. Standing, from left: Man unknown; Mrs. Mattie McCann, Chloe Hollifield (deceased), Donnie Lytle (deceased), Mrs. Laura Haney Austin; Unknown; Mrs. - Mimms, Mrs. Carl Robinson, Mrs. Julia Leonard (deceased). Standing, far right; Mrs. Lola Hyden, the supervisor.Of this group, Mrs. Dilling (second from left, front row) is the only one still employed here.
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Gastonia Firestone News
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Fri, Sep 01, 1967
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