Blog Day # 195 in a day of my life. AN END OF AN ERA IS COMING. AMERICAN OLEAN TILE CO.

     How do you put into words the dreams of thousands for the past 99 1/2 years? How do you say things with a lump in your throat and tears in your eyes? I started there 45 1/2 years ago. June 5th. 1967. One week out of high school. I grew up here. I became an adult. I PAYED TAXES! Yes, it was a home away from home. So many funny things went on there. So many people who I had forgotten only to be jogged by a picture into remembering. The employees there now have been taking pictures. This is gonna be a long blog- because there are a lot of pictures- both of present employee's in color and old black and white photo's. So, sit back- relax, and enjoy a TRIBUTE to a lot of my former co-workers at AMERICAN OLEAN TILE. LOCATED ON SOUTH CLARK STREET IN OLEAN NEW YORK. A LITTLE FACTORY WHO SAID IT COULD AND DID!

 

                              CAROLYN GUSTIN AND BOB FILJONES


                                 BEV  HABENBURGER-WE USE TO BE RELATED!



                                          SCOTT MOYER- IN I BELIEVE PRESSROOM



                                    JUDY HEITMAN MOUNTING ROOM
SHE LOOKS THE SAME AS WHEN I FIRST MET HER BACK IN THE THE BEGINNING OF MY WORK THERE.



                       ELLIE GAY AND TERRY VAN SICKLE STILL JUST THEM!



                                  NOT SURE BUT I THINK IT IS JOE DONAVAN ON LIFT.


  
                                           LYNNETTE POPE IN MOUNTING ROOM



               ELAINE GRIMES-CAN'T SAY AS I BLAME HER-ONLY SIX WEEKS LEFT!



                                  DAVE SILVIS IN PRESSROOM-A LONG TIME EMPLOYEE




                                LINDA LOVE IN PRESS ROOM & THERSA ABDO
                           NOT SURE WHO ELSE IS IN PICTURE- BUT ITS THEM PACKING GREEN WARE IN SAGGERS BEFORE HEADING FOR THE KILNS TO BE FIRED.



             GREG LADERIES FROM THE LAB TALKING TO SOMEONE IN BODY PREP WHERE I STARTED OUT IN 1967- THAT IS MY OLD OFFICE IN BACKGROUND BEFORE I TRANSFERRED TO VA.  SENT ABOUT 7 YEARS IN THAT OFFICE.




                                      THE PRESS ROOM AND SAGGERS




                       MONICA LOWE IN THE PRESS ROOM-ALSO FROM ELDRED WHERE
                       I GREW UP.


                                          PAM HARMON PACKING TILE




                          PAM HARMON AND SHARON FOSTER IN THE PRESS ROOM



        STEVE CRAWFORD, ALSO FROM ELDRED- I THINK THIS IS THE KILN




                                    MIKE (THE LONE RANGER) WYATT- IN THE KILN

                                          THAT WAS MY NICK NAME FOR HIM

LYNN ZALEPA AND THERESA SHUFELT

 

 

JUDY WETHERBY

 

 

 

NANCY WEBER CHILDS -SAYING IT ALL!

 

 

 

 

SUE CLARK , NORA ROSETTI , AND RUTH ANN ROUNDS   

 

 

 

BRENDA MORGAN AT CAN WASHER

 

     

 

MY OLD FRIEND JOE NOLAN

 

 

 

DAVE TODD HEAD OF MACHINE SHOP

 

 

JR--JIM RICKEY HEAD OF KILN OLD SOFTBALL BUDDY

 

 

 

BERNADETTE LABELLA-HEAD OF SHIPPING

ALSO MARRIED TO MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MATE PAT.

 

 

MEGAN HUNGIVILLE

 

 

 

LYNN PHILIPS-WE WORKED TOGETHER IN MTG ROOM

PRESS ROOM AND BODY PREP

 

    

 

LAURA GOLD-PAYROLL

SHE ALSO IS MARRIED TO MY COUSIN DAVE GOLD

 

 

PAUL BROWN-HEAD OF OFFICE-DESIGN-AND PLANT IN GENERAL

WE GREW UP TOGETHER IN ELDRED-PLAYING SOFTBALL AND

AND WAS MY GOLF PARTNER IN THE GOLF LEAGUE- I CARRIED HIM! YEAH RIGHT!

LOL LOL LOL

 

 

EMILY HULBERT

 

 

PRESS ROOM MAINT. JAKE GLEASON AND MONIKA LOWE

I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING TO EACH OTHER! LOL

 

 

 

BOB PILON- WHO WORKED FOR ME IN BODY PREP!

DON'T WORRY-HE IS JUST GETTING READY TO DO A CLEAN UP!

 

 

GREG LANDRIES-CHIEF LAB TECH. THE REASON WHY AOTC IS # 1 IN QUALITY!

 

 

LARRY EVANS-WE WORKED TOGETHER IN MTG

NOW IN CHARGE OF MY OLD DEPT BODY PREP

 

 

BRIAN BARNDT-CAME TO OLEAN FROM LANSDALE WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS THE

2 OR 3 YEARS BEFORE I LEFT GREAT GOLFING BUDDY!

 

 

DEANNA WETHERBY LAB TECH

 

 

KATHY JORDON GOODELL

WORKED WITH ME WHEN I HAD THE PRESSROOM.

 

 

CHRIS WASHINGTON AND SHARON CARRIER PRESSROOM

HAD GOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM IN PRESSROOM

 

 

GORDON (GORDY) BARR

HAS BEEN MAKING SMALL CORNERS FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER!

 

 

 

 

 

PAM HARMON

 

 

DAN ADAMS AND RUTH ANN ROUNDS

 

 

 

JOE NOLAN IN THE WATER JET ROOM

 

 

 

BILL PUTT

 

  

 

 

TOMMY WHITMAN MTG ROOM

 

 

 

KATHY WILCOX-WHO PROVIDED THE PICTURES WITH AN OLD SOFTBALL

BUDDY AND GOLFER, RON GROSS. KATHY HAS KEPT ME UPDATED- AND

HAS BEEN A FRIEND FOR OVER 40 YEARS. RON , AND HIS FAMILY, GENERATIONS,

HAVE 250 YEARS COMBINED AT THE TILE PLANT!

 

SO MANY STORIES, SO MANY LIVES, SO MANY MEMORIES

I MUST STOP HERE FOR THE FIRST PART, AND WILL CONTINUE

WITH PART TWO OF THE AMERICAN OLEAN TILE COMPANY.

 

I PUT THESE HERE FOR GENERATIONS OF THESE PEOPLES FAMILIES TO

LOOK AT AND KNOW THAT AT ONE TIME- THEIR PARENTS WORKED IN

A CLASS PLACE KNOWN SIMPLY AS THE TILE PLANT.

 

SO TO ALL MY FACE BOOK FRIEND'S OUT THERE WHO LOOK AT AND READ THIS,

PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS WE LOOK BACK AND LOOK AT THE PEOPLE

WHO MADE THIS COMPANY- GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.

 

THE NEXT PART WILL FINISH UP THE PRESENT EMPLOYEES, WITH COLORED

PICTURES AND THEN WE SHALL JOURNEY BACK THROUGH TIME WITH THE BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES OF EMPLOYEES OF THE PAST!

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INDULGENCE

HAVE A GOOD DAY