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This is a shark tank. But these are. This is our president at that time, Bill Blake. And I'm standing there with him on the rig. You know, I think this one I think this is me, Stan, this group here. But that's the only kind of picture. I have a certain distance, small, non usable stuff. I only use it that I see. Now, for the record, let me. Your first name? Richard. All right. Ready? All right. Last name. Huffman spelled h o f f m a and then. And you spell it and you pronounce it. Hoffman. Richard, Is that what you go by, Richard or Dick or Rich? Richard. Richard And you are now president of Clean Air. How do you pronounce McCrane? As I say, McLean. Like MSNBC, Alien. McLean. McLean. Right. I just want to make sure I pronounce it right, because I always pronounce it McLean, You know. Right. Well, that's how most people write it with a C if there's no C in it. Now, you are your president CEO, and you have been president for how long? And been president for five years. And before that? Before that, I was executive Vice president and prior to that was Vice president and chief engineer. Prior to that was just chief engineer. Then Assistant chief engineer was a contract manager and before that was a field engineer, office engineer and then a field engineer. So you literally work your way up from the ranks? Yes. You're not you're not born and raised in Baltimore. Where are you from originally? Well, from Roselle, New Jersey, small time to just a small town outside of Newark and went to school in West Virginia and interviewed took a job with a Greiner engineer and who was in Baltimore and came to Baltimore after I graduated in 1967 from WVU.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=2.15,129.99"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So you came to Baltimore in 1967 looking for work, Looking for work and found it and found it. You've been here ever since. Been here ever since. There's no doubt in my mind that Clean has had a major impact in Baltimore. The way it looks, the way it. The way people travel to and from to get to Baltimore and away from Baltimore, even Ocean City. Tell me a little bit about the projects that you were working on when you came when you started here with McClain. What was your first major project that you worked on? The first project to work on while I wasn't with McClain was the Jones Falls Expressway. McClain was building lease the section right there at Chase Street near the prison. And I was working as an inspector for Greiner, and I guess it was through that job that I really realized the love for being in construction and decided to go from the consulting end of things into construction and liked what I saw with McClain, and that's what I went to work for. McClain. So the first job you worked on here in Baltimore was down there next to the prison? Yes, They were building the Jones Falls Expressway. That area now where they just recently had the city fair? Yes. And, of course, let's see. They had farmers market. So when you got there, there was just a muddy field just all opened up. Your company also played a big part in the the 95, 95 north and south and the Martin Luther King Boulevard, 395 over that area there. Do you recall? Yes. Well, there really are too many directions. You can not come to Baltimore, knock over a bridge, and McClain is built with built the substructure for the Susquehanna River Bridge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=133.65,250.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The main 1995 bridge over Susquehanna River built the bridges, several bridges, one being gunpowder, Falls on 83, going north to Pennsylvania. The 95 bridge over for Tabasco State Park, the big bridge there. We built those, of course. And this time of year, people are making plans to go to Ocean City. And when they leave Baltimore, heading for Ocean City, almost all of them, all but the one. And then Vienna. We we built all of them. Kent narrows on down chop tank and below there, the Route 90 bridges that go out into Ocean City over at Woman Bay and Martins Martin River. So every bridge practically that you go over or under from here to Ocean City, you guys out of hand? That's right. It's an amazing track record when you get right down to it. Any idea how much footage you fellows have played over the course of the of the history of this company? Guinness would never add it up, but it amazes me to look back in the history and see the things that this company did before I came to work for them. The bridges they built, the railroad bridges, miles of railroad bridges down in the Carolinas and worked in New Jersey, Long Island. But now we're strictly we stay right in the. Maryland, Virginia, Harris McLean. Even even built. The harbor in Baltimore, built the entire inner harbor, tore the old piers down and did all the bulking, built the constellation dock, do all that brickwork. That's fancy brickwork, the promenade you walk on. Did all that? Did. Pier four up where the aquarium is and the US. What about the ballpark? Didn't have any part of the ballpark. Nothing to do with the bowl. How about the new one they go to Built for the football? We hope so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=250.74,366.71"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Go do something with that. Like to drive the pile and it would drive a lot of piling. Now. Well, we're talking it. What about the light rail? Did you have anything to do with the light rail going over that area? Yes, we did. We we built the light rail section. That's that starts right there at the ballpark and goes out over over the middle branch with Taps, Go River and up past the power plant there and. Goodness. What's that neighborhood call? I forget that. Spring Gardens. That's it. Now time. The bridge is through. Through Spring Garden. When did the clean start? When were they founded? Claim was founded in 1903 by Colin McLain, who came in and started out in a sand and gravel business here. And then he founded McLean. And I guess the first big job that McLean did, or Colin McLean did with his new company was cleaning up after the Baltimore fire. And that's what that's what got him a start. Now, you have a stock certificate out on the wall. Catherine McLean Catherine McLain was Colin's wife and she was a principal stockholder in the company, I guess in today's Today's World. Back then, McLean would have qualified as a minority business enterprise because Catherine owned 300 shares and there were only three three other shares owned by Coleman. So so actually not only was was McLean pioneers in in the construction business, they were also pioneers in the way women did business. You could look at it that way. Yes. One of the first what would you call that? One of the first? The women's women's led. But Right. We won't get into that. The way you put it, minority business is very, very well done. Okay. What are you working on now? I I've.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=367.48,486.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went down to Ireland and got some shots of that footbridge that you're building across the bridge that you built back in the 50s. Yes. And that is that's a that's a current project going on. What do you expect to have that done? We expect to have that project done by the end of June. It's a new footbridge to it's being added the Ohio State Highway Administration's building it but it's to get the foot traffic off the other bridge. It's actually for safety so that people can take their bicycles and and pedestrians and walk across into the park and feed the horses if they pay the horses. That's what a good time weather down there so that that that is a current that's a current project underway. Well what we're we're just finishing the substructure for the Bear Creek Bridge which is the last last link of the Beltway down near the just the other side of the of the key bridge. We're in a joint venture with Wagman out of York, and they're doing the decks and we just finished the substructure crews from there right now are getting ready. We're going to go in and we're going to drive all the piling for the new synchro lift system in the Coast Guard yard. Curtis Bay, you guys built, you built for the new pier, the new port facility down there at Seager. Marine Turmel built most of the most of the docks at Dundalk Marine Terminal, built the South Locust Point terminals, built most of North Locust Point. So you guys, you're getting together to do the airport now. Haven't done any work out of there So so far is by by land, by sea. And then if you get a chance you it'll be by air, I suppose.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=487.17,594.74"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right so what any any new projects that that the that the viewers would would know immediately if you said, yes, we're going to start working on what you're going to start working on in the near future. Not too distant future. Really don't have any we have some that we're we're bidding on but we really don't have any that we're anything else was a with to for the company. Any goals that you're personally looking forward to for this company and for yourself? Yes. There's one Baltimore County in the state are going to rebuild the Peninsula Expressway bridge over Bear Creek, and we're looking forward to that one. We've built, built and replaced most of the. The bridges on the Eastern Shore, Maryland and there's two nice bridge is going to be built over there going out to Oxford. And those will be, we understand, will be advertised this year. Look forward to building on those. And as we said before, the piling work at the for the new stadium here in town. So let's just because I need an ending let's go back to Ash to just for a moment this just for a moment and talk about the. Once again now McLean is building the footpath or the adjacent bridge to State Park. Yes. And the reason for that is the reason for that is the to allow to allow people to come from the park headquarters. They have a visitor center there. They can leave their cars there and they can bicycle out onto the island and they can walk out onto the island and. To provide easier access out on there and for safety. Right now, there's no safe way to get out to the island other than driving out in a car.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=595.22,712.06"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So you would say? McLean Then for the most part, what McLean does for the book, the Walking Public and the motoring public, what would you say that McLean does for for that part of our of our public, our society here and in the state of Maryland, you provide safe roads, you provide. What does McLean provide for citizens of Maryland, for the citizens of Maryland and for for for visitors, for visitors. We we provide quality products. I mean, the bridges and structures we put in. There's just a. Not only for the traveling public, but the marine terminals, the industrial side of the state. There's just like us. We touch a lot of industries that touch a lot of people out there. We've erected almost all of the container cranes in this port which handle almost all the cargo that comes in. I've done extensive work for the railroads, coal payers, oil companies, all of them. They're all our customers. So there's really I mean, hardly just just anyone living here in Baltimore, even if they're just living here, going to work, eating products from from other parts of the of the world. McLean has helped get it all together and bring it here to this. We're currently out driving, piling timber piling for a new retirement home out in Harford County, a huge facility, they're putting it. The only the only specific point. Now, just real quickly, let's talk about you. You were how old when you came to Baltimore? I was 25 when I came aboard. Young guy. Yeah. Looking for work. Looking for work. You found work and you never left. Only left once. I found work. Right after I came to work for McLane. When I was, as they say, the draft was cut off at age 26.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=714.77,840.56"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was three months from my 26th birthday and got drafted and went into the went into the army and took my basic training at Fort Dix and advanced infantry training in Fort Lewis, Washington, and served in Vietnam for a year. Got back from there and got an early out from the service to come back and work on the Hanover Street Bridge reconstruction as a field engineer. So you spent two tours of duty in Vietnam? Yes, I can. Sure. And then you came back to Baltimore and worked on the reconstruction of one of my favorite bridges. The Hanover Street of the Street Bridge? Yes. Now, that's not the party street bridge you're talking about. That's the old Hanover Street Bridge. The Basket Bridge. So you came back here. So you were drafted then, and, what, 1968, 69, 69. You came back to Baltimore in 1971. And so you've been here ever since. You work your way up. I work my way up through the ranks, which is the the way we do things at McClain. Almost all of our most all of our people are employees who work their way up through the ranks. It's a way of passing the. The the way that the way we want things done at that. McLean You learn the, the integrity, the honesty, all the well all those things you you pick them up as you're coming up through the ranks. It's not like coming in and go through a training program. I didn't say that quite well, but I understand what you say. All right. And it's sort of like you work and learn, learn everything. You learn the institute about the about the company's philosophy and all that sort of thing. That's right. And it's carried along with you and your decision making when you reach that point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=841.1,955.04"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And. That's right. Start beginning to make decisions. The you were married, obviously. Yes. Got married right after I got back from Vietnam. Did you marry a Baltimore girl? Yes. Married a girl from Gainesville. Ellen. Ellen Kinsey. In fact, she was teaching school on the right next to the bridge I was working on when I got drafted with Southwestern Boulevard. The Beltway bridges. Is that where you met her? That's where I met her. You met her working on a bridge? Yeah. And then when you got back to Baltimore, we were married and have three children and live out in Howard County now. Now, when would you say that this stuff down here in Baltimore Harbor. What would you say that happened? Was that about 70? That was back in 1968 or 69. They tore all the old piers down and began building what is now called Constellation Pier Harbor Place. Hadn't been built yet. Uncertainty is under construction. I remember when they were building us up and going the first. I mean, does is this the man with the full beard? It's the same one. Yes, that's him. Jane Lazar. I guarantee the way he looks. He would make a story all of his own. All right. So this is this is casting the bridge. I went over as a woman, this woman being bought into going into Ocean City, 64th Street right around there. And this was when? Maybe 1969. Yeah, 69, 1769 or 70. Late 60s. This is 83 over Gunpowder Falls. The old canker. This is the old. This is the 50s. The old Kent Narrows Bridge built back in the 50s. That's the one. That's the first 50. The first one. My wife said she's been doing best. This is the Browning Highway Bridge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828#t=955.37,1128.46"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136816/file/253828/transcript/71659/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rooney Highway Bridge and Seagate's would be over there to the left, I suppose. Okay. So this is the this is where the Jones the expressway overhead went down and. So he was one of the inspectors there in the white hat working for Greiner. And that's Dick Trainor. Hello is point terminal. They call that the Southern South Side, correct? No, that's the North is north. Okay. It's the north. And this is the Harbor Tunnel approach called the Canton by dock. But now that I'm through it, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. And this is the big bridge next to the chapter, the new one being built next to the old one. Back in the 60s when I first started with Channel 13. Hi, this is the I-93 Bridge. Bridges over the taps. Good River. 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