{"id":1577,"date":"2010-04-04T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/1577"},"modified":"2010-04-04T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T13:45:24","slug":"armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Armour Meat Processing Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kenfagerdotcom\/4488667670\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 0px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2799\/4488667670_19678fe805.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just to the north of East St. Louis in National City is a very large abandoned meat processing plant. Armour and Company are perhaps best known for developing Dial soap, but they were primarily a slaughterhouse company. This meat processing plant was built in 1928 and ceased operations in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The Armour and Dial brands continue to exist, though these properties are now held by new owners.<\/p>\n<p>Research Links:<\/p>\n<p>Ecology of Absence &#8211; <a title=\"Hog Capital of the Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eco-absence.org\/esl\/petraitis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hog Capital of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arial view of the <a title=\"Fly like a bird.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/default.aspx?v=2&amp;FORM=LMLTCP&amp;cp=qf6tp57gmks1&amp;style=b&amp;lvl=1&amp;tilt=-90&amp;dir=0&amp;alt=-1000&amp;scene=8442404&amp;phx=0&amp;phy=0&amp;phscl=1&amp;encType=1\" target=\"_blank\">Armour Meat Packing Plant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historical timeline of <a title=\"timeline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scripophily.net\/arandcomofde.html\" target=\"_blank\">Armour and Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to the north of East St. Louis in National City is a very large abandoned meat processing plant. Armour and Company are perhaps best known for developing Dial soap, but they were primarily a slaughterhouse company. This meat processing plant was built in 1928 and ceased operations in 1959. The Armour and Dial brands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armour Meat Processing Plant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,24],"tags":[43,57,159,168,186,225,241,245,300,429,465,536],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickr","category-foto","category-urbex","tag-american","tag-armour","tag-east","tag-exploration","tag-food","tag-history","tag-illinois","tag-industrial","tag-meat","tag-st-louis","tag-urban","tag-urbex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}