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The
Good Old Days part 2
After
reading PARKER JOHNSTON’S story on bananas, I got to thinking back to the good
old days myself.
After
the vans came in, most of us forgot about all those jobs we had to take in order
to keep our job in the backup pool. The jobs like, hides, -30 degrees in the
hold reefers, blood meal, urea, sacked coal, pig iron, the 22 high pile at the
salmon dock, the 3 in 1 sacks at Fisher’s Mill that were 150 lbs, hand stow
pulp and lumber, I think that about covers all the jobs that the “A” men let
us have. Then after you got to the job you had to rig gear, pull back from 3 to
4 tarps, about a zillion hatch boards and beams just to get down to where you
were going to work. GOOD OLD DAYS -- HA!
Each
one of these jobs is a story by itself and it would be fun to tell the whole
thing, problem is there’s not enough room in the RUSTY HOOK.
Without
the ILWU and a lot of good men in it I would never have made it to the
‘ripe’ old age of 74.
H.D. MCCORMICK #55537
PS We hung a lot of tents in those days.
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