> I could almost smell the place from looking at the pictures. > Boonton was such a fragrant community back then. My father > used to call it the "fat factory". > > I'm sure they employed quite a few people in the Boonton area > when open. Did it affect the town much when it closed? Not really. The plant was already beginning to scale back starting in the late 1970s. My grandfather and father both worked for PVO when they came to this country from Poland back in the late 1960s, and they were laid off in the mid-1970s. You could tell the plant activity was slowing down, and I'm sure most of the employees saw the handwriting on the wall and looked elsewhere. - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2506 ***********************************
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