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Introduction:
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IN high school I worked at Food City
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Bagging, stocking and checking
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College summers worked the night shift at EFCO
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Living an old school industrial life
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EFCO Engineers and Fabricators Company
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My dad a machinist there from 42 to 85
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Running the lone milling machine
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I was on nights in assembly
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Making Heat exchanges for refineries
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Occasionally Nuclear Power Plants
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You had Machinist, rollers, tube pushers, welders
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Grinders and assembly men.
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Worked with Bo, Joe, Jody, Ron, Steve a few more
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Bo was the foreman, sitting in AC drawing circles
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Joe was the lead man, a Pollack who could do anything
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Old Jody mostly sat, Greased studs hate salted tomatoes
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Ron was the roller man, always a cigarette in hand
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Me and Steve were summer help
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Steve a preaches kid going Trinity
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Pl aying football and Stealing alligators form the SA Zoo
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IN high school I worked at Food City
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Bagging, stocking and checking
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In College summers working the night shift at EFCO
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Living life on the old school industrial side
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We pulled bundles of tubes in to the big pipe
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Bolted it together and pressure tested it with air
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then High pressure water, Thousands of PSI
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When things were slow we&lsquo d and grease studs with jody
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It was fun, better than sacking groceries
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But not a job for life
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Got partially scalped the first year
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Last day I was there Joe had me move a bundle
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I had run a tandem crane be3fore
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My first time , I did it I without question
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You had to time it just right, tap, wait push
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I got it just wrong a 10,000 lb. pendulum was swinging
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People were scattering, Joe took control
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He set it down, all was just fine
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I went outside the rest of the night
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Could have killed somebody,
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In high school I worked at Food City
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Bagging, stocking and checking
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In College summers working the night shift at EFCO
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Living life on the old school industrial side
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I EFCO now gone along with lifetime jobs
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Condos took its place
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Those two summers had a glimpse of life a generation before
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Working the night shift at EFCO