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exboyfil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 07:24 PM
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15. My father, grandfather, and uncle worked in the glass plants in Huntington
Both plants are now closed (Kerr and Owens-Illinois). Kerr does not really exist anymore as a company, and I don't think Owens-Illinois has glass container manufacturing anymore.

The big glass manufacturer now is St. Gobain which bought out Ball which had bought out Kerr. St. Gobain is a French company. My dad was really screwed on his DB pension because of the buy outs. One of the reasons why I hate DB pensions so much and prefer DC.

The city is like night of the living dead, but it does have some nice spots (like the University). I am not really sure what is going to happen to the city in the long term without any plans for resurrecting a business base. In that it is like so many other towns.
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