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Post by wildcat2 on May 14, 2009 20:45:53 GMT -4
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Post by klsm54 on May 14, 2009 23:20:26 GMT -4
More interesting information on Jackson China. Thanks again wildcat2.
Our younger members may not know how prominent Jackson China was in the pottery business. At one time they were one of the largest, if not the largest, suppliers of hotel and restaurant china in the world.
I used to check under the plates every time I traveled out of the area and often found the Jackson China logo on plates in many different hotels and restaurants. Too bad they couldn't survive.
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Post by phoenixsmom on May 15, 2009 10:50:57 GMT -4
wow! The picture #22 of the lady cutting out the decoration is my china set from grandma .I've looked every where and can't find any matching pieces.some got broke as I use it all the time. I'ts on my dining table right now as a matter of fact.any body see any let me know the border is hunter green.p.s. I've already asked kenny.
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Post by phoenixsmom on May 15, 2009 10:52:53 GMT -4
p.s.s. I just noticed it's the third one down in the first picture too.
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Post by klsm54 on May 15, 2009 11:46:56 GMT -4
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Post by bozmom2003 on May 15, 2009 21:08:41 GMT -4
hi, great memories, my mom and dad both worked there...I still have Jackson China serving platters...Not sure but i think my mom did the transfers , we played with the pyrometric cones, since dad was a kiln fireman. Mom retired when i was born, 55 and dad retired in 1978 ..i just remember how hot it was there. phew
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Post by phoenixsmom on May 16, 2009 11:12:51 GMT -4
thats It mr. admn.! I can't believe it,I've looked on e-bay without luck,thanks for the tip. maybe now I can put it all back together.not missing very many pieces,but it's service for 12. now I can start to work on my moms china, I have that too but can't find it
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Post by wildcat2 on May 16, 2009 20:14:03 GMT -4
Go down to page three and look at the photo of machine jiggering, they thing the guy in this photo is Bob Ferringer, Bob Ferringers dad.
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Post by suzyqwe48 on Jun 24, 2009 17:21:47 GMT -4
I grew up in Falls Creek. My Mom and Grandma worked at Jackson China. I started collecting the restaurant china pieces several years ago. I just love going to antique stores, junk shops, and flea markets looking for Jackson China. I have purchased some pieces on E-Bay but it is a lot more fun to go searching. I have about 78 pieces. I always look in the restaurants, too when we go out to eat somewhere I haven't been. The farthest place away from PA that I have seen it was in a pancake house called Sambo's in Oakland, California.
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Post by brucie2000 on Jun 24, 2009 20:15:15 GMT -4
I lived right accross from "the pottery" We spent many days rooting through the china in the dump piles. I think every family in Falls Creek at one time or another ate off those dishes. I remember truck after truck would come and haul stuff out of there. When the pottery let out it was like a dust bowl. My mom was always complaining about all the dust the cars would kick up
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Post by chrispy09 on Jun 24, 2009 23:25:42 GMT -4
I remember taking pieces from the piles and using it for sidewalk chalk. Hated the feel of it though.  |
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Post by klsm54 on Jun 25, 2009 16:23:37 GMT -4
I guess Jackson China probably had something to do with just about all of us Falls Creek people who lived here through it's heyday. Most of us had friends, neighbors or relatives that worked there. There weren't many homes in town that didn't eat or drink from at least a few pieces of Jackson China. And their scrap piles served lots of purposes for kids....  |
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Post by lizziework on Jul 5, 2009 13:12:06 GMT -4
My dad was the designer for Jackson...I have so many great memories of the folks who worked there.
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Post by shamu on Feb 5, 2012 10:52:40 GMT -4
My grandfather, Harry Heitzenrater, worked in the slip house with Bill Early who mixed the clays. When Bill died they were having trouble mixing the clay for saggers. Eventually my grandfather got it right and production of their own saggers continued till 1934 when he died. The company representatives showed up at my grandmother's house in the Tannery Row demanding the "recipe" from her. As there was no Social Security then my grandmother had no pension of any sort to live on so she inquired how much they were willing to pay for it. They told her it belonged to them and they would pay nothing. So she took the slip of paper she had in her hand, opened the coal stove and threw it in. The company representatives stormed out and went back to Falls Creek. Whether she actually had the formula or not is unkown but the company turned to purchasing saggers from other companies.
After Bill Early died my grandfather tried several mixtures which resulted in crumbled saggers and failures. One day he noticed an outdated calendar on the wall and as he was about to take it down found a series of numbers on the wall. He knew the ingredients, just not the amounts which Bill or someone else had written on the wall behind the calendar.
I worked the cup jigger line as a ware carrier starting in the fall of 1967. I worked about a month in 1968 in the slip house on the evening shift "pulling slip" with Claude Parks and running the pug mill.
I went into the service in 1969 and returned in 1972 for a few months. I worked building the tunnel kiln cars for the initial kiln, worked the sanders and the dishwashers along with carrying ware before going off to Clarion College on the GI Bill.
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