Kohrs Pure Lard

Worker remembers Hog Hotel’ smell

Quad Cities Times

By Mardel Peters, Davenport | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 

John Willard’s June 6 article on the “Hog Hotel” brought back memories of Oscar Mayer (Kohrs Packing Co.). We at Brammers Manufacturing (cabinets) were the building directly west of that plant. Wow! Talk about the odor! The east winds brought it all. I retired in 1989.

We all were so happy when the hog slaughtering ceased. There is no smell as bad as that was. Having lived on a farm as a child, I’d forgotten the pig smell, which was in a smaller dose.

I don’t envy the people in East Moline.

Mardel Peters

Davenport

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