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Article: A DYING INDUSTRY SLAUGHTERHOUSES GAVE CINCINNATI ITS PORKOPOLIS NICKNAME, BUT THEY'VE ALMOST DISAPPEARED.(BUSINESS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2002
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Byline: Don Baker Post stff reporter
As a teenager in the 1940s, Jim Kluener began working in the slaughterhouse industry when it was going strong.
''I actually remember the days when the livestock were driven right through the streets,'' said Kluener, former owner of Kluener Food Distributing in Camp Washington.
But since then he watched as the industry that helped build Cincinnati almost disappeared.
At its height, the slaughterhouse industry in Greater Cincinnati employed more than 2,500 people at nearly 120 slaughterhouses.
Today, there are three, employing fewer than 200 people.
The plight of Cincinnati's ...