The Chicken of the Sea Story. Tuna Cannery on Terminal Island Los Angeles in the 1960's.
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2022
- Promotional video from Van Camp Seafood's showing the process from catching the tuna to the cans.
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Thank you For Pole Productions, this was an Awesome clip brings back great memories for me. My family who worked their for many years are not with us no more, not are the majority of the beautiful workers who worked so hard to raise their families, I knew a few that was supporting 6-7 kids, some without a father, it was a tough job not at all easy, in today's world we have a lot of lazy people that don't want to work. They could never be able to handle this kind of work, very demanding job. Today's people want free money from our lame government, and not lift a hand!!! Thank you once again for bringing Americana back. P.S. I worked with a lot of Italians, Mexican, and lots of Portuguese people who are the fabric of America. Never have seen a group of hard workers in my lifetime!! God 🙏
This was also the headquarters of 9 Lives Cat Food up to 1984. Awesome video!
And the quality is consistent
These were good paying blue collar jobs. Back in 1993, I was 19 years old, making $16.00 hr. On some days, we would unload frozen tuna from containers, pushing racks with skipjack tuna into the pressure tubes. After a few weeks, I got moved up working the weight scale while the ships were being unloaded into metal bins, then driven to the scale to get weighted out. The owner of the vessel or someone from their crew would sit and write notes on how much was unloaded and total weight. Samples would be taken to the lab. We would compare notes. Then the check $$ was given to the owner, and off they go again.. some vessels were local. But some would leave and wouldn't come back for months at a time. It was an honor and pleasure to work among multiple working class Japanese, Mexican, Afro-American, Italian, Portuguese people 💪🏼
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Too bad this Americana is no more. Van Kamps sold out to the Koreans, so did Starkist tuna, and Bumblebee tuna, Quality can't be the same as before. I worked for Chicken of the Sea in the 80's as did my family, they started in the 60's. VanKamps sold out, and took their business to American Somoa. I got paid 20.00 per hour working their in the 80's as a foreman. I came to work one day, to my surprise, all 600 worker's lost their jobs, they moved to American Somoa, where their salaries were 1.25 per hour, all about money, we were the last of the tuna industry in San Diego to follow, Starkist, and Bumblebee tuna. Loved working their, but the greedy owners packed up and left us hanging, no warning, no severance pay, just up and left, I was young 21 yes old, but the majority of the workers were in their late 40's though late 50's they could not start all over, no skills, most of them did not finish highschool, quit school, some of them in the ninth grade, some in the 8th grade, I was lucky due to my age, I finished highschool, and some college, but 90 percent who worked their had no chance to make something of their life, some, very few had to go back to school, where as the rest not too sure. This could not happen today, a company moving out of the country today would have to pay their workers a severance pay at least!! I feel so bad for them cannery workers who paved the way for their success.