Modern Living: Part Eleven

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The McClouth Steel add;

Grew up within 5 miles of the main north mill that was in Riverview/Trenton, Michigan. Memories of the night sky always orange. A gal whose hsband was in my monms nursing home drove the trains that moved the hot metal pig iron ingots to the forming and rolling mills.
 
McClouth

My dad was one of the designers of the electrical system for McClouth in Trenton as an employee of General Electric. We spent a summer there (1961) at Stony Point, and had a tour of the Enrico Fermi nuclear plant.

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Steved,

that's ironic! That would have been Fermi #1 in Monroe. Do you know it's fate? Fermi #2 was built after the core meltdown of 1965. We moved from Pittsbirgh in fall of 1966.
The reactor overheat was caused by a cooling fin which dislodged from inside a line and jammed a valve. The reactor was scrammed within minutes of the hot core eating through the containmnet floor.
It is forever entombed in lead.
I read the book "We almost lost Detroit".
Babcock and Wilcox welded the entire reactor vessel and cooling lines.
 
I had totally forgotten that paper towels came in such deep shades.

My friend Barb has a collection of Texas Ware items, including some that are multi-colored.

I don't remember Prolong floor wax; it must not have been around long. I see the manufacturer was a division of pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers.

That baby in the Cellophane ad would be about the same age as me!
 
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