ht32bsx115 wrote:
Cool pictures!!
Is it true that everyone in Prineville either works for Les Schwab or is retired from Les Schwab?
At one point it was close. There are still a few mills left that employed a bunch, but we are sitting at 18% unemployment in the county and climbing fast. Les Schawb is no longer a town fixture like it used to be. They moved the coperate headquarters after the old man died. They then took the executives to hawaii and laid off 70 employees with a large number of them being people with 20+ years in the company. Sad times. In the past Les Schwab took care of the town and the town took care of the company in return. No longer so as the grandkids got out of the company as soon as he died.