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Closing of JC Rhodes

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Gloria Carr

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07/04/2003

Closing of JC Rhodes

This company went out of business and moved on to Georgia for cheaper labor in 1996. My husband worked there for 16 years-and found himself without a job. My grandmothers brother Antonio Pepin worked there many years ago. This plant was in New Bedford for over 100 years! They made shoe eyelets.

Date & Place: 1996 at JC Rhodes in New Bedford,Bristol, Massachusetts United States

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Cathy Bowers

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03/12/2023

My grandfather worked for J C Rhodes from 1950-1965...I remember him giving my some of those shoe eyelets when I was a little girl to string into a necklace...

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