Photo of Kohrs Packing Plant (Davenport, Iowa) 1910
Quoted from the Quad Cities Times:Mailbag full of memories..........
Oscar Mayer’s old hog containment building, known as the “Hog Hotel,” continues to generate comments from readers. David Odean of Davenport, a project engineer at the plant for more than 30 years, adds some helpful facts to our column about the most visible portion of the hog slaughtering operation: “The hog hotel, three-fourths of which still stands today as the maintenance center, was built by Oscar Mayer in 1965. It was built to house 10,000 hogs, a day’s kill in the 1960s. Oscar Mayer demolished over 30 slaughtering-related buildings between 1985 and 1992. And of the 35 or so buildings that make up the complex today, only seven were original Kohrs buildings. The original hog hotel, built by Kohrs in the 1920s, was one of the 30 buildings demolished by Oscar Mayer in about 1988.”
Reference.
Quad Cities Times:Mailbag full of memories. Retrieved 01 May 2009 from http://www.qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/john-willard/article_7392b1a6-b871-523a-9e70-5bff7a88eae6.html
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