Back in those days about 90% of the employees working at the brookpark plant were West Virginia "Mountain folk" so that would explain the the backward "S"...
I think at the time Ford had a policy to provide them with a pair of shoes when hired and someone to teach them how to tie them.
Ahh, those were the days; the police would raid the local whore houses around the plant about every couple of months, the parking lot was a great "unofficial" fea market (although the police did take issue with the guy selling machine guns out of his trunk), if you were one of the unfortunates that didn't have a "deal" with the gate guards, you could simply dispose of your empty Jack Daniels bottles in the doors, fender or quarter panel bottoms of one of the cars. You drank Jack at work because it was too hard to hide a six pack of Stroh's beer (Rolling Rock for the southern Ohio boys) in your lunch box.
The GM plant was basically the same...
Don't get me wrong, working on cars while sober does suck.
