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Factories

posted 17 years ago by princesslilly680
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I just got done reading the threads about how Bristol is NOT like this. When it's pointed out that the only guys with nice cars are factory owners, it did not mean actual factories (like the tiny decrepid things we consider factories here in Bristol). Factory is short for drug factory. The point being made was that this guy should have kept a low profile because the Beamer is one of the things that helped people catch on to his trafficking.

Second of all, Bristol is most certainly like this. Couldn't walk five feet in high school without finding someone to supply a kid with a fix. Bristol is a blue collar town- this is nothing to be embarrased by, it is what it is.

Spend a Saturday afternoon at the Bristol Wal-Mart and take it all in, and try to sit here and tell me that there's no white trash and that Bristol is a white-collar town.

Oh, and for those of you who can't find google- the original case this movie is based on was "Operation Toolen and Rivera" and 22 people were busted.

[–] bobbycormier 17 years ago

i grew up in bristol in the 70's and early 80's and then moved to NYC and i always thought bristol was freakier. there has ALWAYS been a seamy, david lynch-style underbelly to bristol that's not even far below the surface. always been very open drug dealing and lots of crime areas and i used to revel in it 'cause i was a little juvinal delinquent. bristol has always had pockets of ritzy neighborhoods sheltered from the rest of town. cut-off oasises of monied people. bristol is definately mostly blue clollar even now. back in the 70's when most of the factories were shutting down and unemployment rose MUCH faster than other towns in connecticut, it got especially rough. that was because bristol's biggest employer and industry then was the "new departure" factory plus a huge amount of smaller ones. new departure was, by far, the mamoth one. and it was the only general motors plant in all of new england. so when hard times started falling on the auto industry, they started laying everyone off away from the media attention of detroit in bristol first. what i remember growing up was just rampant unemployment and a permeating hopelessnes and alot of old houses and buildings decaying into the ground with alot of laid off blue collar workers with indoor couches pulled out onto their front porches with a cooler filled with ice and ALOT of beer to guzzle right next to them and if THAT ain't white trash, i don't know what is.