About 25 years ago I was working in an electronics place situated on the floor right above the Ace Hardware on the 500 block of fourth street. Right above us was a small cigar distributor ..I told this to my Great grandmother (born 1911) and this jarred some memory from her being a girl and working a few weeks at cigar manufacturer in the same building . Perhaps she got the building wrong but it seems several were very close by.I do know it would have been the mid 20s ,post WW1 but Im sure it took a while for all of them to automate. She hated it lol, spitting on the thing, and she did mention most others did not speak English.
Yep, my grandma lived on the south side & she rolled cigars for awhile.
My grandmother worked rolling cigars, she was born in the 1890s, but worked in 1920s i believe.
About 25 years ago I was working in an electronics place situated on the floor right above the Ace Hardware on the 500 block of fourth street. Right above us was a small cigar distributor ..I told this to my Great grandmother (born 1911) and this jarred some memory from her being a girl and working a few weeks at cigar manufacturer in the same building . Perhaps she got the building wrong but it seems several were very close by.I do know it would have been the mid 20s ,post WW1 but Im sure it took a while for all of them to automate. She hated it lol, spitting on the thing, and she did mention most others did not speak English.