The reason for all the ships in the lake was the grain elevator strike of '79. I remember the strike well - I was one of the few that voted "no". It set me back a bit as I was trying to raise money for my last year of school.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Grain Elevator Strike
The reason for all the ships in the lake was the grain elevator strike of '79. I remember the strike well - I was one of the few that voted "no". It set me back a bit as I was trying to raise money for my last year of school.
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Did you work at the grain elevators? I worked at the ones right beside the bridge to Superior the summer before moving to Alaska for $3.33 and hour which was very good wages for a summer job at the time. I never stopped coughing the whole summer.
I like the trees in the foreground. Was that taken from Skyline above 46th?
Yeah. It was a great job for a college student. Did you kill rats, probe grain for test samples, ride box cars and hoppers out of the shed after they were unloaded, etc etc etc? What a great experience!
As for the picture - it's one of dad's. I'm not sure where he took it from.
The things i remember from that job besides the continuous cough was the cleaning up we had to do from time to time... they called it shoveling sh.. (we're keeping this blog pg rated) because spoiled grain smells just like that. I remember going to the top of the grain elevators one time in the summer and watching from a distance while 2 guys wearing special breathing stuff dumped a barrel of deadly poison into the grain to kill any bugs that might get into the stored grain. Loading any ships was pretty easy. Just sitting around for several hours and open a shoot to different holds on the ship. Tom Bergum and i hitchiked to Alaska and then went college otherwise i could have worked there longer.
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