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Home » Photos of the Month » 2010 » The Lineup

Photo of The Month – Mar 2010

The Lineup

Picture contributor: Society Archives

Outside the Cone Mill Cliffside plant. An 18-wheeler with the word "Wrangler" painted on the side of the trailer. Beside it stand a line of 15 managers of various mill departments.
The Lineup

Mill supervisors gathered for this photo on Sept. 17, 1975, alongside the first truckload of denim to leave the mill. Cone Mills’ Cliffside plant soon became a major manufacturer of denim for the clothing industry. Buzz Biggerstaff notes, “Levi-Strauss was our biggest customer but Blue Bell Wrangler was also a customer, just not near as big. The company supplied about three-fourths of a million yards of denim each week to Levi and the other customers.” The boom would never burst, the Company thought, so they expanded in a big way, building a new mill nearby.

A closer shot of the left 8 men on the larger photo.

From left to right: Joe Miller, truck driver, Randy Myers, Ken Cannon, Bob Harris, John Stuckey, Brent Golightly, Bill Masters,

Closeup of the right 7 men in the line.

and Pete McGraw, Perry Gibert, James Hamrick, Buzz Biggerstaff, Joe Swing, Earl Johnson and Odell Revels.

 

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