Philip K Nelson
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barrowjh said:I read an article that indicated C&K moved its manufacturing operations to Tennessee - do you know anything about that?
Brad has the details to a "T". It was a nasty strike but nowhere near the one in 1885 that ended in the dynamiting of factory #2. I was living in Philadelphia in 1953-54 at the time, during my residency training, and my family kept me informed. The basic problem was that people weren't wearing the kind of hats C&K made. My grandfather, Phili Knapp, during his tenure used to have men hired to count the men's hats in Times Square- sort of a sampling of the population- this had been going on for years and the numbers just got worse and worse. Phil Knapp died in 1945 and was spared seeing the demise of the family venture.
Phil K Nelson