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packman

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4. My old stomping grounds

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:25 AM

Nov 2020

"D"onora, Webster and all those small boroughs and townships below Pittsburgh. Jobs more important than health and industries took advantage of that mind-set. I remember my mother hanging out laundry in the back-yard and complaining that the sheets had that coal smell and grime still on them. People also had two cars, one old beat up to drive to the mill and the other they kept in the garage so it wouldn't get that corrosive shit on it.

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My old stomping grounds packman Nov 2020 #4