tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post5336485383239410734..comments2024-03-29T09:35:18.252-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Flashback Friday: Yazoo City DestroyedKingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-49980853280809976412019-04-08T09:30:54.926-05:002019-04-08T09:30:54.926-05:00The chemical plant is going strong by its current ...The chemical plant is going strong by its current standards, but it has a fraction of the employees it had when it was MCC.<br />It would never fly today, but when Owen Cooper ran the plant he required employees to live in Yazoo and have their kids in public schools.<br />Even after Cooper retired you still had a lot of people making decent money, supporting local schools and being leaders in the community. When those jobs left, they did too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-49427038787563307692019-04-07T12:10:48.599-05:002019-04-07T12:10:48.599-05:00The former Miss. Chemical plant is going strong, j...The former Miss. Chemical plant is going strong, just not local ownership. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-90915351088262874772019-04-06T17:53:39.690-05:002019-04-06T17:53:39.690-05:00Meanwhile, over 100,000 public school students lan...Meanwhile, over 100,000 public school students languish in D and F schools while our "oustanding" (extreme sarcasm here) state superintendent of education makes $300,000 a year. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-81532871576160181272019-04-06T15:59:50.362-05:002019-04-06T15:59:50.362-05:00Nah 4:20, when the public schools went to shit, Ya...Nah 4:20, when the public schools went to shit, Yazoo City, like every other town with similar schools, went to hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-86308192953505208242019-04-05T16:20:01.189-05:002019-04-05T16:20:01.189-05:00Mississippi Chemical Corporation failing did more ...Mississippi Chemical Corporation failing did more damage to Yazoo City than the fire did nearly 100 years earlier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-10953298599640149922019-04-05T13:53:59.791-05:002019-04-05T13:53:59.791-05:00The best solution for improving Yazoo City, along ...The best solution for improving Yazoo City, along with most towns west of I-55, are a few bulldozers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-64505945377607635332019-04-05T13:35:29.909-05:002019-04-05T13:35:29.909-05:00The sad thing is Yazoo City came back from the fir...The sad thing is Yazoo City came back from the fire but it will never come back from it's current situation. R.I.P. dear old home town.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-69793994277709925512019-04-05T13:33:01.888-05:002019-04-05T13:33:01.888-05:00Origin of fire: likely "defective electric w...Origin of fire: likely "defective electric wires or rats with matches." The report makes it sound commonplace that fires might be started by "rats with matches." Hmmm? Apparently there were no "safety matches" 100 years ago, so a person or a rat could light a match by just fumbling around with it? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-26117677681818292132019-04-05T11:50:30.978-05:002019-04-05T11:50:30.978-05:00“The cause is assigned either to defective electri...“The cause is assigned either to defective electric wires or rats with matches.” Clearly was the Witch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com