Sunday, March 2, 2014

Businesses Not Here Anymore


This first one was a chemical plant, that’s all I know, (remember).  I do remember almost all the teenage boys would work there at times.  It was torn down and fenced off, and to this day, this is it.
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This one was the DDT plant, yep,, a block up the street where we all grew up, and just off a creek, between us.  Somewhere along the way, someone decided it was bad stuff,  took it all away, and dug up the ground and loaded it into barrels, then sealed them.  Now you can’t get any good pesticide. 
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This was the talc plant, on the bank of the river.  Not sure why it was torn down, don’t think it was bad.  We used it on Halloween to load little brown sacks to throw.  They exploded when they hit,  and that stuff was like flour.

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See, I had a healthy childhood,,,,oh, and that talc plant was about 3 blocks from us.  The chemical plant was N across the street from the granite place.


When I woke up this morning about 7, I realized that the wind was that BAD front,  just arriving, so I shut 2 windows I had left open.  Heard someone on the scanner say the temp had dropped 14 degrees instantly.  And by the time I got up 10 minutes later, turned heat on!  Yall will see….

I’ll try to do better with pics, but,,, no promises,,,lol.

Yall tc, and
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10 comments:

  1. PS: We also had a graphite mine that is totally gone now, way across town on the southern edge. All these businesses were here for years and years, then just gone.

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  2. Boy howdy, I remember that DDT stuff. MOMS used to spray us kids with it to keep bite'n bugs off'n us. Spray it on the door screens....keep the flies off'n them. I don't know who said it was bad for ya, but they ain't never live on a farm I betcha.

    Too many small businesses have been run out of town by BIG corporations. Go out in the country an' try to find a small farm. What happen to all the small "mom an' pop" grocery stores? Remember the small hardware store on the corner? It's gone. I could go on, but it PO's me.

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    1. Yeah, we used that ddt spray too. All we have now are quick stops, and big grocery chains. Well, we do have a meat market, cause this is ranch country I suppose.

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  3. Front hit here in Del Rio about 1130. I was out on the fishing bridge in shorts and tee shirt. Quickly headed back to the truck for warmth.

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    1. Yeah, one of those BAD ones. Icy to start with.

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  4. We need exposed to chemicals and stuff to kill germs and so we can see at night by our own glow (grin). I used to work at plant that made radioactive fuel for electric plants. The fuel pellets were loaded into fuel rods, partially activated, and shipped to the electric generating plants.

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    1. Have they outlawed it now? Like those I talked about?

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  5. I tried and tried to put a video on here, from last nite. It's on facebook. Hilarious,, a call came in about a cow and a horse at one of our quick stops. Turned out it was a young bull, no horse, but a deputy chased it, and when the bull would turn around and lower his head, the deputy got ready to run. hahahaha. Then when it finally went thru the open gate, the deputy threw his hat at it,,, hahahaha

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  6. O yeah, if you can, its on Llano County News Wire

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  7. I grew up within full view of a power plant, constantly puffing out black clouds of soot. When I was diagnosed with crohns disease, I helped the local gastroenterologist map out the city. The area I lived in had the highest concentration of crohns disease, IBD, and colon cancer.

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