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Christine, Quebec on September 8, 1. I grew up on a farm with. On August 2. 6, 1. Sex Dating In Slick Oklahoma here.
I left from Windsor Station in Montreal to come to the United States. I took the. milk train at 1. AM and arrived in Troy at 5: 3. PM. I could speak no English.
My brother, who was living in. Watervliet, met me at the station. My uncle owned the Bleau Brick Co. My first job was to feed the horses and drive them to bring clay to the granulator. Because. this brickyard had what was known as an “open yard”, it operated only in the late spring, summer, and early. When the brickyard shut down for the winter, I went to work on Riberdy’s farm in Waterford.
I. milked cows, cleaned the barn, put corn in the silo, plowed land for the following spring, and chopped wood. Shaker Road. That was “big money” then because I was making nothing back in Canada. I learned how to operate. When the brickyard closed for the winter, my cousin offered. I went to Berlin (east of Troy) and hauled logs out of the woods for $1 a cord. Sometime the snow. I was young! After hauling the logs to the road, they were picked up by a truck and.
Watervliet. Back then, wood was used to “burn the kiln” to fire the brick. A machine pushed through 1. Each. mold contained 6 raw bricks and in a 7 hour shift, we made 4. The green bricks were put on. I hated this job, so I left the brickyard and went back to Canada for a visit. I worked there one.
In order to survive, a friend and I went to Massachusetts and found jobs in a lumber. By now, it was the Depression, so I spent the next few years doing. I was chopping wood in Cohoes, but that. My wife was earning $3 a week taking care of an elderly woman. By 1. 93. 5, we were.
Main St. I received word that my cousin wanted me back at the brickyard. I didn’t have. the money to take the trolley so for my first week I walked to and from Watervliet until I got paid. I then took. the trolley until I had enough money to pay for the registration on my light blue 1. Willys. I had saved a. I still had the $2.
There was a medallion inside the cab as. I had passed the “steam test”. Unfortunately, I fell off the shovel and spent the rest of. In the fall, we moved to N. Erie Street. We were expecting our first child. In the. spring of 1. Mr. Bleau asked me to come back to the brickyard and drive the BIG TRUCK!
I was so thankful to have a full- time job. I delivered brick. Schenectady, Gloversville, Amsterdam, North Adams, Lenox, Lee. Jack Gaudette and Billy. Nadeau drove the smaller trucks for local deliveries. Bleau brought the former Troy Brick in. North Troy on Oil Mill Hill.
That brickyard could operate all year long. Most. of the men who worked in the brickyard had been drafted: Billy Nadeau, Jack, Joe, Franklin Gaudette, Mickey.
Guy, Oscar Gilbert, Richard, Wilfred and Lawrence Bleau. The only ones left were Gene and Joe St. Pierre and. a few men from Mechanicville. I would leave my home at 5. AM to get to East Kingston.
There, a crane operator would load the truck with 7,0. Then I drove to the Schenectady GE, dropped off that. East Kingston for a second load. When I wasn’t hauling brick to Schenectady, I. Pittsfield or Gloversville.
Travel was on Routes 9, 7, or 2. After my regular workday, I would spend a few hours repairing machinery. I would get home about 4. PM, eat supper, rest and go back at 6.
PM to tend the kiln with Joe Leclair. At midnight, Joe St. Pierre and Joe Ten Eyck. By noon, the. boxcar was loaded with 3. The load had to be spread the length of the boxcar, the weight balanced. I would toss 6 bricks at a time to Joe St.
Pierre, who would then toss them to a man with a wheelbarrow who would unload his bricks into the boxcar. So when I was tossing bricks, I. I had muscles back then!
I worked for Bleau Brick for. In 1. 95. 2, I bought my own truck and became a tractor- trailer driver between Boston and.