@mattblaze@federate.social
File in the same category as Auschwitz-as-museum, perhaps? As slave-plantation that actual condemns slavery (vs. that fucking thing in LA that burned down... ๐ฅ )?
danmcd
joined 8 years ago
@mattblaze@federate.social
Whoa! My grandpa worked at GE Schenectady (yes, Dad was a 2nd-gen GE lifer)!
@mattblaze@federate.social
As the son of a GE lifer, seeing old things like this, esp. given what the GE remnants look like now, is a tiny bit heartwrenching. (Only a tiny bit, however...)
@mattblaze@federate.social
Grew up a few towns further west of West Allis, WI, yes, THAT Allis. Lots of early-stage IC engine manufacturing in WI, some survived after the first half of the 20th C.