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Missouriens. >> what was the mood like among your fellow workers? >> oh, boy. it was pretty bad. pretty bad. people in the same situation. worked there 20 years. >> when it closed, all but completed collapse of industry that at one point employed 15,000 people in the st. louis area. a former auto worker said when the line was humming, you couldnt hear themselves think. now the only sound is demolition machines tearing it down. >> out of work for four months, he took a bail-out funded retraining ...