Category: Green’s Scoop

The blizzard of January 1978 was a huge storm mostly on the east coast, but it clipped the southeast side of Chicago with 14 inches of snow and plenty of wind. I remember it because I worked 32 hours. It was January 26-27th, two weeks after being hired at Interlake. I was still in coal […]

I started working at Interlake Steel January 11 1978. I started at the coke plant, in the coal handling department. It was below zero and I woke up with the flu that morning. I was 20 years old and figured I better not miss my first day. I was in the labor gang and was […]