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My job was to run madly about opening and closing gates to allow cooling coke to fall on a conveyor belt.  It was hot, dirty, toxic, loud and lonely.  The only reward was the spectacular light show created when one of the huge coke ovens opened and disgorged tons or red hot coke dramatically illuminating the steamy summer night. Later it would give me the inspiration for this painting.

A week later I got a job at the Dearborn Engine plant and fled Detroit's little hell on earth.

Friday August 3, 2001


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