The hairy guys at the EPI factory remind me of a lot of friends and co-workers back then
That grungy old building is very typical of old "recycled" NE mill buildings, most of which were in the textile business in the 1800s. Anyone who ever worked in DEC, Maynard Mass at "the Mill" would really know all about that...
What was fun about working in those old buildings, was there often was a lot of old abandoned "junk" left behind by previous owners and tenants, and much of that was freely available for the "picking" , it was like having a swapmeet and a flea market built into the workplace, what a great concept
That was well before the modern era of overly sanitized, sterile and ultimately boring "cube farms" or as I used to call them "day jails".
Give me a musty, dusty and crusty old dilapidated building work place any day
I've also heard some interesting, legendary, stories about a cash bar and skin flicks in the production area,
after business hours....
A few places I worked at back in the 70s would entice us worker bees to work overtime with time-and-a-half, plus beer and pizza after 5PM. If one worked satuurdays or sundays it went up to double time and even double and a half time, and the $$$ were rolling in.Even better if one worked over a holiday, and Thanksgiving weekends could be a real money-maker
even at the relatively low 1970s wages. Though we never had any skin flicks.
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