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In reply to the discussion: Ever watched your city turned into a ghost town after the manufacturing jobs were outsourced? [View all]onethatcares
(16,133 posts)35. Reading Pennsylvania
Last edited Sun Jul 29, 2012, 01:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Good bye to Dana Corporation, Carpenter Steel, Textile Machine Works, Vanity Fair, Berrylco,Ludens and so many other large and small plants that kept people in jobs and their kids in schools. For a while there were Outlet shops there, they don't exist anymore. All that irregular clothing gets sold somewhere in the world as first class.
Now the place is like a war zone and last time I was back, I was told to not go where I used to live because I'd get arrested on suspicion of buying drugs.
But it seems the store parking lots are full, the restaraunts are busy evenings. I can't figure that one out.
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Ever watched your city turned into a ghost town after the manufacturing jobs were outsourced? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
OP
there's no reason ordinary people should have to move from 'boomtown' to 'boomtown, destroying
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#18
What a strange thing to say. There is nothing more comforting than to go back home
sabrina 1
Jul 2012
#50
I have family in Europe in more than one country. They were not 'landed gentry' ever
sabrina 1
Jul 2012
#48
I'm from the same town in NJ as Springsteen (Freehold) and when the rug mill shut down and moved
monmouth
Jul 2012
#2
I grew up in PA. It's kind of hard not to notice it there. It's been more than 25 years since Billy
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2012
#4
No, it turns out it was the Ford plant in Mahwah. It was literally on the border....
Walk away
Jul 2012
#46
According to the Mahwah Museseum the plant finally shut down in 1980 (split hairs much?)
Walk away
Jul 2012
#60
Has everyone watched "When Mitt Romney Came to Town?" on youtube, and shared it online?
progressivebydesign
Jul 2012
#15
I recommend this video to people who want to understand the process better. It's a bit wonky
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#20
We went to visit my mother's hometown and it was just one street...the town had died off.
dkf
Jul 2012
#41
In Los Angeles, former manufacturing plants are turned into large outdoor malls themed
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2012
#52