And all that waste just went straight into the Chicago river! I don't think I saw a single person wearing gloves in this. Can only imagine what they smelled like at the end of the day!
In 1927, my grandfather immigrated to Canada, and one of his first jobs was at the Toronto Stockyards, where he skinned the animals. He'd only been there a short time, when he badly cut his hand, and it got infected. An experienced colleague bandaged him up, and warned him to find another job while he was still young and strong, because, if he didn't, he'd die of tuberculosis from the diseased animals that were being butchered.
Chicago was (and still is) the railroad hub of the United States due to the Union Stockyards. The Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nickle Plate Railroads settled into Chicago from the eastern U.S. Chicago's first railroad was the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad.
The technical animations are almost certainly by Max Fleischer Studios. They're the same style as his films about the Theory of Relativity, and the sound-on-film process.
Chicago was the home of Lever Brothers, Procter & Gamble, and Palmolive, because the Stockyards provided all of the fats needed to make soap. Chicago was also the 3rd radio production centre (after NYC and Los Angeles), and it's where some radio soap operas (sponsored by the soap companies) were produced.
6:20 - By the time the carcass was condemned, its bacteria had infected the knives and tools used to cut it, and they'd spread the infection to other, healthy carcasses.
My father who lived in Chicago had to drop out of high school when he was 16 and get a job when his father lost his job during the Depression. He was the breadwinner for his 4 siblings and his mother and father for a number of years. And the job that he got was working at the slaughter house in Chicago. This would have been about the early 1930s. He never told me much about the job but he was able to get free some meat sometimes that was expired and his mother would make soup out of it to feed the family. He never talked about the job to me but I suspect that he did not like it too much. I wish I would have asked him about that job when he was still alive.
Thanks! My grandpa was an accountant for Swift Meat Packing back in 1930s to 1960s..lived i Cal City...thank God he did not to work in the Stock Yards !
@@jalilmuhammad8270 Mostly due to changes in requirements in the business, lacking the need to be centralized to places like the stockyards, leading to it's investors to pullout over the likely unnecessary cost of the stockyards maintenance and transportation.
I remember driving by the Chicago Union Stockyards with my Dad in the 1960s when I was a kid and boy did it smell. Thanks for the video!
I remember that too! I lived close by.
It was because you parted air from your inner cheeks
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And all that waste just went straight into the Chicago river! I don't think I saw a single person wearing gloves in this. Can only imagine what they smelled like at the end of the day!
great video. thank you.
In 1927, my grandfather immigrated to Canada, and one of his first jobs was at the Toronto Stockyards, where he skinned the animals.
He'd only been there a short time, when he badly cut his hand, and it got infected. An experienced colleague bandaged him up, and warned him to find another job while he was still young and strong, because, if he didn't, he'd die of tuberculosis from the diseased animals that were being butchered.
Chicago was (and still is) the railroad hub of the United States due to the Union Stockyards. The Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nickle Plate Railroads settled into Chicago from the eastern U.S. Chicago's first railroad was the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad.
The technical animations are almost certainly by Max Fleischer Studios. They're the same style as his films about the Theory of Relativity, and the sound-on-film process.
Interesting! Thank you! Sad music for those poor steer?
Chicago was the home of Lever Brothers, Procter & Gamble, and Palmolive, because the Stockyards provided all of the fats needed to make soap.
Chicago was also the 3rd radio production centre (after NYC and Los Angeles), and it's where some radio soap operas (sponsored by the soap companies) were produced.
6:20 - By the time the carcass was condemned, its bacteria had infected the knives and tools used to cut it, and they'd spread the infection to other, healthy carcasses.
My father who lived in Chicago had to drop out of high school when he was 16 and get a job when his father lost his job during the Depression. He was the breadwinner for his 4 siblings and his mother and father for a number of years. And the job that he got was working at the slaughter house in Chicago. This would have been about the early 1930s. He never told me much about the job but he was able to get free some meat sometimes that was expired and his mother would make soup out of it to feed the family. He never talked about the job to me but I suspect that he did not like it too much. I wish I would have asked him about that job when he was still alive.
Thanks for sharing.
Did he suffer from PTSD?
Thanks! My grandpa was an accountant for Swift Meat Packing back in 1930s to 1960s..lived i Cal City...thank God he did not to work in the Stock Yards !
Thanks for sharing
Interesting industry
Delightful documentary. One reason i became a vegan. Commercial meat industry is barbaric.
That was interesting
The meat-packing industry hadn't improved much from what Upton Sinclair exposed in his 1905 novel, "The Jungle".
The Union Stockyards were closed in 1971.
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Mostly due to changes in requirements in the business, lacking the need to be centralized to places like the stockyards, leading to it's investors to pullout over the likely unnecessary cost of the stockyards maintenance and transportation.
Wowsa!!!!! First.