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Oh yes, my name is Sylvester James Senior, I born March the 1st 1931in Rock Hill, South
Carolina and I came to Baltimore in 1953. And I went to work at Sparrows Point Bethlehem
Steel, June the 6th 1953. Well I had an uncle working there and my brother worked there
but they'd been here about probably most their life. The first couple weeks, it wasn't too
bad, it was pretty good. So I worked in the labor gang I was off every Monday and Tuesday
and so all day like that I worked that for 3 years. Labor gang you do most the clean
up work, you go clean and sweep the floors and like on […] terms [……] down on the
weekend and then you clean the mills and stuff, do a lot of cleaning, that most we did.
Only good thing about it was the money, yea thats it. So, making that money I looked over
everything else, everything else was good. In '53 I never thought it would shut down
though, never thought that. But, see a lot of people lost a lot but I didn't lose too
much because my wife was working for Baltimore county, I went on her insurance so everybody
lost their insurance so I didn't lose my insurance, I lost our life insurance down there, and
thats the most I lost from down there see. Well I liked because it was a big company
down there, and another thing I got to know a lot of people down there, and not too much
I miss the Bethlehem Steel, I miss the people I was working with, it had a lot of good people
and I miss that a whole lot. I hate to see it go though, but it's gone.