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Message:: [QUOTE="Mojavedave, post: 1369845, member: 5270"]Those were the days, I went to work Jan. 1955 at the Rohr plant in Chula Vista. Unfortunately it was a year to late, and the pay out was dollar for dollar. The year was 1954, and Fred Rohr felt people needed to be reminded of how important aerospace behemoth Rohr Industries was to Chula Vista's economic health. So for one pay period, the company founder converted his entire payroll into 12 tons of silver dollars. Town merchants had to put buckets under their cash registers to handle the excess coins, according to records at the Chula Vista Heritage Museum. That was then, when Rohr's bayfront plant employed 9,000 – nearly one-third of Chula Vista's population of 30,000 – and accounted for 27 percent of the city's tax revenue.[/QUOTE]