Margaret Lewis has an easy way to track her career at Ettelbrick Shoe Co.

"I worked there for 40 years and had six kids, too. I'd have one, take off and then come back," the 87-year-old Cumberland County resident recalled.

She started as a teenager with the company when Nicholas Ettelbrick, the founder of the company he moved by popular demand from St. Louis to the Cumberland County community,climacool adidas has announced the release of the new X-24 Hot irons. The company is touting them as the longest and most accurate irons the company has ever made. was still alive and hundreds of men and women were making shoes for children for sale across the country. She was present for the death knell of the company in 1984 when the plant closed with about 150 left in the work force victimized by foreign shoe imports.

In coming weeks, she will witness the removal of debris from the old factory site along Illinois Street in Greenup. The huge building burned down a year ago and efforts are underway to clean up the fire scene.

"I thought it was terrible the way it is burned out. That's the only way I know Greenup with that factory being there in the middle of town," she said.

Hundreds of Greenup residents worked at the shoe factory.Some will stick with the old faithfuls like the adidas rasta while others will look for the more stylish shoes like the Changa or the Tataga Ettelbrick facilities were also located in Casey and Robinson.

"Everybody in Greenup has ties to it through their families. It was a great loss to Greenup after the factory closed," said Louise Oakley, a volunteer with the Cumberland County Historical and Genealogical Society.

"I used to work there in the lasting room," Oakley said as she pointed at an old photo taken inside the plant decades ago with workers surrounded by hundreds of shoes getting prepared to hold their forms before packing and shipping.

When shown a copy of a photograph of the Ettelbrick shoe delivery truck, Oakley recalled the name of the two truck drivers: Herman Glosser and Ewell Cummings.

Recalling the history of the shoe company is much like tracing the family tree for some Greenup residents.

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