West lbany was once home to Tobin First Prize hotdogs etc.
The slaughterhouse roots of West Albany continued into the later half of the 20th century, decades after the railroad abandoned hamlet, thanks to the Tobin Packing Company. In 1924, the Albany Packing Company was incorporated, and it would later merge with the Rochester Packing Company to form the Tobin Packing Company.
Tobin’s First Prize continues to be one of the most top-selling brands in the Northeastern U.S., and especially Albany, according to the current owner of the brand, John Morrell and Company.[11] The plant, also referred to as Tobin’s First Prize Center, was according to former employees so busy it pumped out 50,000 hot dogs, 700 hams, and 20,000 pounds of kielbasa a day; and every hour roughly 360 hogs were slaughtered to keep up with this production.[12] When the Tobin meat-packing plant closed in 1981, it employed 600 people.[13]
Tobin’s was always good around here but they’re gone from the area now. I miss their stuff.