Chris Bryant wrote:
> At 07:45 PM 6/22/01 -0700, Tim Shephard wrote:
> >Doing more of my research I found that Betrice Foods owned Airstream in the
> >70's sometime and the quality dropped.
> >
> >What years should I stay away from knowing this?
> >
>
> Personally, I wouldn't worry about it- Beatrice owned Airstream
> from December 1967 to September 1979, but in my opinion, they really didn't
> do much to the quality that wasn't happening in general anyway (as others
> have said).
>
> I've had a '75 and now a '78- and they are both well built
> trailers. I have a friend who bought an '83 new- and the design quality was
> *far* below that of the "Beatrice years".
>
> ________
>
> Chris Bryant
>
One other little bit of history from that era that had a significant impact was
the opening of the Honda assembly plant in Marysville, OH. They did a WalMart and
hired a whole bunch of folks at unrealistic salaries and then weeded out the
one's they wanted to keep. It really disrupted the labor market in the area.
Charlie
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