there was a lot going on in this episode...shyt was dope
How fukk do you mean “how do you pay a mortgage on a house you built?Nah Fam, that was all plants back then.
They paid good but the plants could get laid off at anytime. Especially GM!
My pops worked in a GM plant around 1983 and they laid him off the very next week later. He ended up going to college and they didn’t call him back to work until 1987, he was already into Architecture by then.
The Flenory family was similar to my pops, 3 kids, housewife with part time job and husband breadwinner who was always in and out of work at a plant. Only difference is my grandpops went and got a skilled trade so he got paid more and didn’t have a mortgage. Charles (the TV dad) was a regular line worker.
A lot of these plant workers is bad with money as well. How you pay a mortgage on a house you built?
Yea if I was meech I woulda tried herNobody gonna mess that plug’s girl was looking bad af (foul af too lol)
I think you're right. I cant see Pops Flenory working @ GM and struggling like that. Motown left Detroit in 1972, but there were still remnants of the Motown era in Detroit in the 1980's, garage bands, 5 man Temptations, New Edition type of groups and rappers.Watching the Starz BMF documentary earlier
There's no way Mr. Flenory was working at the plant.
Utilities cut off, kids got raggedy clothes, facing eviction?
They said he was going to school to be a music recording engineer and paid the tuition by working at the studio.
It would be hard to do all that and work at the plant.
The mother left him because he wasn't taking care of the family.
That nikka didn't work at the plant and if he did, it wasn't for long or it was part-time. He was chasing his music dreams.