One of the many forks in the Hackel tree!
Well, I’m sure everyone is sick and tired of living life all locked down and such. In an effort to be productive, since dieting and exercising hasn’t been very successful for me – I started cleaning up (and out) all the old papers, etc. from the boxes they landed in after my sister and I…
With all the lockdown madness going on, I’ve been spending some time cleaning up. I came across some of my parents’ old stuff. One of the little items was a short stack of mimeographed sheet music that my mother used to teach music to her Kindergarten classes – first in the city schools, then later…
When Cahokia was decommissioned, the only buyer was a scrap company. Just prior to the sale close, some of the engineers from the company went over and collected some souvenirs. These were some my father ended up with. I donated them to the Missouri History Museum so that others might enjoy them as much as…
The family visited Bagnell Dam on a combination business & pleasure trip back, I think, in 1971. Yes, another plant that I was in absolute awe and fascination with! Take a few moments and peruse some history from almost 50 years ago.
I used to get such a kick out of reading this when it came to our house each month. I looked up to my Dad and wanted to be just like him so reading about the company he worked for made me feel so much closer. This particular issue was very meaningful for our family….
Here’s a fun one – the new employee booklet from the early 1950’s! You can see what the normal benefit plans were from the early 50’s, what the layout of the company was, what plants were in operation at the time. Also included are snippets of detail about Union Electric’s own Railroad – The St….
Continuing on today’s theme – I also found the original invitation to the Rush Island power plant’s Open House from July of 1977. I attended this open house that day as a teenager. She’s another beautiful facility!
If you read my earlier post about my visits to the Cahokia plant, you already know the back story. Here’s another booklet I found when cleaning out my father’s stuff. I only visited the Meramec plant a few times in my childhood, but I found it as fascinating as old Cahokia.
Years ago, my father worked as an engineer for Union Electric. In the 1960’s, if there was a strike, he was required to be at the Cahokia power station for the duration to keep the lights on in the St. Louis area. In 1976, the plant was taken out of service and my father was…