Don Downie remembers Ogden Bros. Grocery, located on NE First Street just east of the railroad tracks:

Out the main  back double doors was a roofed area.  Mr. Ogden had an employee named Red who worked with the butchers.  Chickens were a huge part of the meat department.  Outside there were cages of live chickens stacked next to a long wooden table.  Red would grab a chicken throw it on the table and with with a big hatchet cut off its head!  They were then stacked in an area until they stopped jumping; they were then thrown into a big 50-gallon barrel of boiling water after which the feathers were plucked.  The last step was to cut them into pieces and send them inside where they were washed and prepared for customers.

All the feathers and remaining parts were thrown into empty barrels.  The barrels were carried south of the area where Atlantic Boulevard is today (near the current City Hall) where the contents were dumped into the Pompano Canal … the gators were waiting!