Modern Living: Part Eleven

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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.

 

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Duz 1950

 

 

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Dow 1953

 

 

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Dove 1958

 

 

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Kleenex 1971

 

 

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Bethlehem Steel 1962

 

 

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Texas-Ware 1961

 

 

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Cooking Magic 1971

 

 

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Kroehler 1960

 

 

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Prolong 1965

 

 

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Du Pont 1956

 

 

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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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Dixie Cup 1963

 

 

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Hudson 1966

 

 

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Cosco 1957

 

 

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Westinghouse 1952

 

 

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Utica 1947

 

 

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Union Carbide 1960

 

 

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Tide 1953

 

 

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