"And what do they get their children for Christmas? Why steel, of course!"

Major gangster town. Who you think cashing those checks? No one else talking about how the mob tried taking over the union?

Not a Springsteen fan but he has a song called Youngstown about the steel mills. Good song.

AMERICAN STEEL Nothing quite like it in all the world… Let’s make it GREAT AGAN!

Who's watchin in 2025

It's so beyond saddening to see what Youngstown used to be. Shit, what most of the country used to be. How in the name of Christ was the gutting of the steel industry (and basically every other industry) ever allowed to happen? Nothing could be more treasonous.

My right ear is very well informed.

God I miss lung cancer

This same building is still used. It is now Vallourec. Seamless pipe for oil and gas drilling is made there.

The chemist that developed early mustard agent also synthesized cocaine ....Albert Nieman ?..... his exprements with early Mustard agent compounds killed him....1800s.

The last part about being hopeful for the future and keeping the mills open after the war is so depressing 😭

Yep, but where are all the feminist screaming for equal rights at??

Welp youngstown isnt what it used to be

Truly the greatest generation. This was an era where the people worked together from top to bottom. The mill wasn’t owned by a private equity or venture capital group whose only interest was making money even if it meant low pay for the workers, overtime with little or no pay, no job security, and vanishing pensions. A person had a job and the pride and dignity that went with a job well-done. What has happened to this country?

Can you imagine the toxins these guys were exposed to???

My Dad, who was raised near Youngstown, was 16 when this film was produced. When he graduated from high school in 1946, he enlisted in the Army for two years to fulfill not only his military service but also eligibility requirements under the GI Bill to receive a free college education. Dad went on to a successful career as a ceramic engineer. Had the GI Bill not been enacted, he likely would have worked in the local steel mill. For better or worse, how different his life would have been. It was sad to read of the decline of the steel industry in Youngstown, but it is a resilient community and is on its way back.

Here in north east Ohio Back in eighteen-o-three James and Danny Heaton Found the ore that was linin’ yellow creek They built a blast furnace Here along the shore And they made the cannon balls That helped the union win the war Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown My sweet Jenny, I’m sinkin’ down Here darlin’ in Youngstown Well my daddy worked the furnaces Kept ’em hotter than hell I come home from ‘Nam worked my way to scarfer A job that’d suit the devil as well Taconite, coke and limestone Fed my children and made my pay Then smokestacks reachin’ like the arms of god Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown My sweet Jenny, I’m sinkin’ down Here darlin’ in Youngstown Well my daddy come on the 0hio works When he come home from world war two Now the yards just scrap and rubble He said, “Them big boys did what Hitler couldn’t do” These mills they built the tanks and bombs That won this country’s wars We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam Now we’re wondering what they were dyin’ for Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown My sweet Jenny, I’m sinkin’ down Here darlin’ in Youngstown From the Monongaleh valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalacchia The story’s always the same Seven-hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the world’s changed Once I made you rich enough Rich enough to forget my name In Youngstown In Youngstown My sweet Jenny, I’m sinkin’ down Here darlin’ in Youngstown When I die I don’t want no part of heaven I would not do heavens work well I pray the devil comes and takes me To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

Left Ear: Right Ear: Understanding the importance of Steel Industries during war time.

if only we could have hindsight in the way they had foresight!

I came home from the Navy in 94…. Was a security guard at N.star steel…. Now Vallouric. They still had the Jenny blast furnace standing when I started there…. Before I went to work at the new private prison it would be gone….. very sad

Back when a man could buy a nice home a car and raise a family of 4 on one salary

Back then tires were mainly Natural Rubber but Synthetic ones were the new option. A fire then was just natural rubber burning but today it's mainly very toxic chemicals making up vehicle tires and it's a worse impact on the environment.

Thank the unions for no more factories here in America , China took over ! They do it cheaper .

As Henry Ford supplied Hitler with high quality engines, and our United States banks like Goldman Sachs financed the war efforts on both sides for profit, reta***d Americans fought the war and died. A war we entered because a US president allowed to happen in Pearl Harbor. But more dumb Americans exist today and will defend the narrative the real owners want us to believe.

I WONDER IF THEY HAD TO DO THE H.R.WORKERS JOB? 😂😂😂

My grandfather, John Hetherington, a veteran of WWI, worked at US Steel as a puddler in Youngstown in the 1930s to 1948. A puddler mixes the molten steel, and it is incredibly hard, hot work. Puddlers operated a reverberatory furnace to stir molten pig iron in an oxidizing environment to burn the carbon. Most puddlers didn't survive past 40 due to the inhalation of gasses and the terrible heat. His upper body was rock solid. He had terrible PTSD from the war and sometimes couldn't sleep without nightmares. He died of a massive heart attack at age 49. These men had terribly difficult jobs, especially before safeguards were put in place. My father said he would never put his body through that. He went to college and became a professor. My grandfather would have been proud.

From 15k men a shift worth of work over seas

All this was invented by us British.

I was born in Youngstown in 1949. In 1968, I was employed by Youngstown Sheet and Tube. In May of 1969, I was drafted and spent the next 30 years in the US Army. The steel mills were the most dangerous place I have ever been in my life. Think about that.

I come from just across the border in Aliquippa PA, where I worked in the world’s third-largest steel mill, Jones & Laughlin Steel, which closed im the Eighties and the town died.

The whole thing like most shit from the 20's to the 60's was a gimmick. You dont fit shoes to the size of the bones you fit them to the soft tissue which these type of xray doesnt show.

Now the Youngstown area is incredibly polluted :)

Modern marvel episode my Dad was a metallurgical/chemical engineer his speciality "failure analysis" "inspector" "corrosion in oil refinery engineering engineeringwe had recently moved to KY from TX Gulf Coast. He wrote specs for welders. He specialized in corrosion in oil refineries. Published article: Brittle Fracture the Cold Hard Facts.

If you're a local like me that grow up here Marley road pits behind the church was the best dirt bike spot and also obviously a toxic waste dump but we knew what it was just didn't understand the implications

An awesome video.

When I was younger my uncle took me to see the work done there and his job. He was a crane operator after I grew up I was hauling slabs and my uncle loaded them on my trailer. You were never cold inside the mill and summer you almost would pass out from the heat. If you weren't going to college or had some job planned you could go get a mill job and it paid weekly and was decent pay alot of those guys bought a house and they gained the name mill houses.. The air quality was really bad back then

My grandma my mothers mother worked in a mutation factory. Thats badass

Men in work clothes Built this Country, The Men in Suits Destroyed it.

Wish we could go back to these times. I long for an era I never knew.

My family worked at Falcon Foundry

I worked up there from 1977 to 1981. Worked a lot of graveyard shifts up in the mine right on the ore body. I remember being 60 feet up a drill mast at 2 AM trying to thaw out an air hose. Hell of thing to do at 24 years old.

We’re bringing back steel

Crazy to see them working like that with what we know today. It looks so harmless, it makes you wonder what we might be working with today that is secretly killing us.

America self reliant 💪

Grandpa Harsanye worked the steel mills when he came over for Hungary in Youngstown. Dad said hell, and joined the newly created air force in 1947

I lived in town at the time, it was truly frightening. This was two days after the Oklahoma City bombing too, so at first people feared it was a terrorist attack. The lot sat empty for years, a reminder of that day.

Great video! I live in the Ohio valley and although this video brings back great memories. Unfortunately that’s about all that’s left in the area as most of the blast furnaces have all been scrapped. I worked in many of the steel mills in the area. Excellent video

What an incredible video!!!! My dad’s family all worked for Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point in MD. I’ve heard the stories, but this was very meaningful to see. Thank you for sharing this video!!!!!!

“Highest safety standards”? Dude isn’t even wearing a mask!

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