Bruce Springsteen's father worked here in the A&M Karagheusian Rug Mill, from 1941 to 1943. See, for ex., Bruce, by Peter Ames Carlin, at p. 3. The building is now a senior living apartment tower, called variously Rug Mill and Rugmill. There is quite a bit about it on the Web, including that it is the textile mill in Springsteen's song, My Hometown.
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Bruce Springsteen's father worked here in the A&M Karagheusian Rug Mill, from 1941 to 1943. See, for ex., Bruce, by Peter Ames Carlin, at p. 3. The building is now a senior living apartment tower, called variously Rug Mill and Rugmill. There is quite a bit about it on the Web, including that it is the textile mill in Springsteen's song, My Hometown.
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Comments : In Born to Run, the Springsteen autobiography, at p. 6, Bruce writes, Time passed; my father quit school at sixteen, working as a floor boy in the Karagheusian Rug Mill, a clanging factory of looms and deafening machinery that stretched across both sides of Center Street in a part of town called Texas.
Date : 2016-10-10