WC Kelly Perfect Ax, Charleston WV, True Temper - insight?

[Operator1975]

I have lots of old catalogs laying around here, but having old catalogs does not make anyone an expert or any better than anyone using Google, any more than putting a book on brain-surgery into Donald Trump's hand is going to guarantee he can do brain surgery. Despite there being information all over the place, this forum and most others are full of mostly misinformation because for many people talking about something period is more important than knowing what you are talking about.

If someone puts up something that is factual and true that is my hero, likewise if someone puts their ego ahead of those things or is simply ignorant, I don't care if they have been chopping wood for 50 years, they don't deserve to spread misinformation just because they or old or talk louder than anyone else. If you are going to start defending misinformation just so nobody gets their feelings hurt, then you may as well take this website down because it will become a liability and the general public will be better off without it as a distraction for sure.

Unbelievable.

 

[hollowdweller]

http://www.mywvhome.com/fifties/kelly.html


I remember when True Temper closed down. They were good paying manufacturing jobs. Not too far from there was the plant that made Gravely Tractors. It went to NC.

From about 81 to 83 the Charleston area lost tons of manufacturing jobs, it never fully recovered because all the jobs created after, or the majority, were low paying service jobs.

When I first got out of college the only job I could find was making and delivering donuts to convenience stores and I ran into many former employees of True Temper who had made 8, 10 dollars an hour or more (good money back then) who were making like $3.35 an hour working at Go Mart and 7-11.