Today we had an appointment in Connecticut and on the way home we drove by Paul's old work. He got laid off from Combustion Engineering/Alstom after 31 years in 2003.
He had heard that they were going to tear down the old buildings. Today we saw that they had started.
It's had to tell from this picture, but there were guys in asbestos suits working on the outside of the building. The reason they kept the big site so long is because of nuclear contammination that needed to be cleaned up.
The remnants of the company are now in two rented buildings, one of which is a building that they rented for overflow space many years ago.
They also rent this building.
This was the "main site" where Paul worked when he first got his job there in 1972.
I remember the first time he took me down there to see where he would be working. It seemed so far away from where we lived (about 25 minutes). We took his parents there one Sunday afternoon. There is a pond behind the building with ducks. We brought bread and fed the ducks (and, yes, I am pregnant - about 7 months. The day we found out I was pregnant was the same day he found out he had this job).
Kind of sad; the real end of an era now that the main building will be gone.
2 comments:
Hello - I enjoyed your post. It looks like it is time for us to put up some new posters for you to blog about. Yes, its's the end of an era for CE... but not the end of our involvement in Windsor. See what's coming next for the former CE site at www.greatpondinwindsor.com
I was part of Alstom's "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" layoff in February 2003 too. I know Alstom was in trouble but didn't think I was making THAT much money? I hear they are selling off bits/pieces of companies now?
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