TIPS of the Day

[Geoff Coenen]

Watch for blackish (fuel), bluish (oil) or whitish (coolant) smoke coming out of the tailpipe.
11 Days to the Common Sense Adults Being in Charge

PS I already lost where I read that first aphorism - I cannot take credit for it.

The politicians gutted the neighborhood my warehouse is Iocated in. Thirty five - Fourty Years ago it wasn't like this. Today it's called an Enterprise Zone. A BS concept that means many of the businesses ave departed.

A business man developer died in a plane crash and all his big business in my neighborhood went poof. Only 2 blocks away was Producto - a manufacturer of die sets that disappeared. Every metal stamping, casting, plastic molding tool I own or have ever seen sits in a die set. Well if the USA is not making tools - there is no need for die sets. Located about 3 block from me was Bridgeport Machines. Their machines built tooling. They helped win WWII. Their name was sold to a foreign entity. Their entire 2 story building was leveled; it's been a vacant gravel lot for over a decade. Guess you really don't need die sets. Wonder Bread had a giant Distribution Building across the street from me. They went belly up and the new owner closed that distribution facility and their Retail Store right behind me. Now just a dozen or so straight job delivery trucks parked overnight. The rigger across from our parking lot disappeared. I'll have to ask John what happened, next time I see him - but he doesn't come here often also.

Lord willing in 2025 I will be completely out of this chit hole dangerous city. Half gone, Half to go.

 

[BBShark]

I didn't know Bridgeport was "rebranded". Yes, metal stamping (the machines to do it) went out with all the large machine tool companies.

 

[Geoff Coenen]

Yes "rebranded" - some foreign asian or indian company now owns the "name". I haven't had any tools made in years - so I don't know if they offer anything in the market.

I'll have to take a picture of the vacant Bpt Machines lot - it's right across the street from the formerly US owned Water Company - now owned by a company in France.. I have well water at my "rural" residence but this whole area is served by them. Here's hoping they haven't hired a $750,000 a year director who can't keep the hydrants filled and the reservoirs filled.

Just think Gov Newscum wants to run for US President in 4 years - and he has quite a resume of the destruction of life, liberty and the pursuit of EVERYTHING. That election will be a beauty - a ex Marine opposing a Gov. Greasy Hair.

 

[Geoff Coenen]

I just went to Wikipedia and they have a timeline at the end of their article. It's incomplete and launders over the actual demise of Bpt Machines legend and most prominent factory.

This will be long. I had an excellent employee I lost to Bpt Machines and then hired him back. He originally left because he though his future employment was a longer term proposition. Wages and Bennies were the same. Bpt Machines was closed and I hired him back.

He was my best employee ever. A Vietnamese Mother and Puerto Rican US Marine father. He never knew his father and when Saigon fell his Mother and him were resettled in the Philippines where he learned English. They were resettled in CA and then NY and then Bpt CT. Decades later he returned to his country.