The Girls of Circle F, Coney Island 1939
If you were from the Burg area, there was a very good
chance you or one of your family members or friends
worked at Circle F at one time. This is a cool picture:)
3 years ago
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I too worked there for some time. Those girls sat at punch presses all day joining "A" to "B" by pressing a lever and it now = "C".
Occasionally, about a half dozen times a week the timing was off and now the finger became part of the electrical fixture. They operated four facilities. Prince Street, Meade Street and the Main Facility on Monmouth Street. There was also a shipping depot in Bordentown.
It was said, and I too am of that school, that Trenton died with the advent of the New Jersey Turnpike and the Interstate System. The narrow streets of Trenton could not handle the Interstate trucks so we had to use shorter solid bed trucks to take the product to Bordentown at the Turnpike entrance where it would be stored and then loaded again. Double handling material is the kiss of death and forced them to move down south. That and some alleged management problems but by then it was too late.
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Some of the strikes were very bitter and during one volatile period I had to pull watch duty in the Prince Street plant all night. Over at Meade Street and the main plant a few cars burned and cinder blocks were thrown through windows.
A few weeks into the strike my boss questioned why my time sheet had a few extra hours on it each night. I explained to Mister Nolan, that was easy, it was BEER & CHIPS. His jaw dropped till I explained that the first night I brought the strike "Captain" in and told him in no uncertain terms that like in the Navy, we could fight or we could fudge. When the sun is up carry your signs and do what you have to do, but when the sun goes down, there is a TV, pretzels and chips along with a cooler of beer. You union guys make more than I do and if my car is damaged you will pay one way or the other. We got along fine and the company paid for the refreshments "off the record".
Prince Street was the only plant without a smidge of damage and quite frankly, we all made the best of a bad situation.
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