97 Fulton Street, The Burg
Once Rocco Marval's Slaughter House.
A new picture of this:)
I have heard tales of cows escaping and wandering the Burg
I never saw this but would have laughed with glee over it:)
Brando Adds:
one time, a bunch of us kids followed a liberated cow all the way to beatty and lalor before it was collared, detained, and reduced to hamburger. that is the day i learned cows can run really fast if necessary.
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it wasn't the escaped animals that was bad, but on a hot humid day in the summer... the smell, no the stink would knock you out...
I only observed a few cows or calves slaughtered there. I think remember one or two getting loose.
Mostly, truckloads of pigs were brought in. When a truck rolled up, and if we had the day off, we'd go over and watch the processing. They'd let us sit inside the side entrance on a stairwway, one kid per step.
Every few days, a truckload from Mutual Rendering would stop by and pick up 55 gallon drums of fat and scraps. Those drums really smelled.
i lived a block down the street. yeah, it was kinda smelly in the summer. i don't think that health regulations today would allow a slaughter house to let animal guts fester in a 55-gal drum on the sidewalk in the suumer sun anymore. times were really differnt back then. funny thing is, no one really seemed bothered by it too much. i guess that the gut buckets on the sidewalk meant people had jobs.
my dad would work there part-time some winters when construction work was not availble.
one time, a bunch of us kids followed a liberated cow all the way to beatty and lalor before it was collared, detained, and reduced to hamburger. that is the day i learned cows can run really fast if necessary.
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