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Message: Hi Dan I just read your story and it's exactly like mine 10 years later I did the exact same things you did in the early seventies right down to stealing the Pepsi cola and putting it down in Harrison's in the stream to keep it cold playing baseball I worked in your dad's factory when I was 12 and 13 years old with my father Jonathan Morrow which was close friends with your dad Jonathan my father worked in strooks 1940s to early 60s and then he worked part-time for your dad from 1970s all the way up until the 1990s whenever your dad closed it so what I was in there from 12 to 13 years old around 1972 73 I was stripping to bobbins for my father on Sunday and he was running four or five looms and I was cleaning the looms off also with the air gun and it basically roaming around the rest of the morning and day until he was done I think he was giving me like 45 cents for the three or four hours whatever he was there so I grew up on Maple Street up the other end on the dead end the only one of you guys I knew was Joe and he was a year so older than I was also it's amazing that my grandfather work there he was in the shipping department in the 1920s and probably before world war I also and come to find out recently my great grandfather Jonathan Morrow work there also he was working for Rose brick and then he left and came to Newburgh and started for strooks I found in the paper in 1916 so I had my great-grandfather work there my grandfather my father and I was there also and my mom worked there she was inspecting 1970s I believe Mel Lacey was her boss she liked him a lot I remember a lot of the workers from my father knowing them and we used to play on the bells we got caught once and the cops came and kicked us out anyway awesome story I felt like I was living my own life over I never believed that I would never read a story like that so close to mine just 10 years later I went to Chestnut the whole 7 years I was on Maple Street from 63 I was 4 years old until 96 and then my dad sold that house I think a couple years later I read some crazy stories what went on over there in Harrison's pond that Harrison actually lost their daughter drowned fell through the ice 1907 she was 11 years old and that factory's actually the first factory in the United States to be lined with electricity 1883 Thomas Edison lined with a generator and electricity before the downtown Newberg plant and we used to hang in the fort years after you did but I only went there a couple times Drenni and fort I'll let you go for now there's a lot more I'd like to say if you're interested in chatting I'd love to know more that you know than I do I'm a big fan of the West end and we were in the west end gang also after you guys once again thanks for the awesome story Jon morrow I would imagine you probably know my dad hope to hear back from you Replies to this post No replies yet |
