Letter To Youngstown

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company produced film from the 1960s showing the steelmaking process.

[@alexlitner6611]

Little known fact. Jimmy and my uncle Bobby rolled a big old joint out of that stock certificate on September 19th of 1977 at Idora Park. Good news is he kept the bike.

[@Malama_Ki]

Brilliant!🤣😂🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@alexlitner6611]

@@Malama_Ki Jimmy really liked Bobby's Columbiana county 4h club bud!

[@dasboot5387]

I’d like to see a little more late 70’s and 80’s Youngstown films if they exist I’ve seen shout Youngstown and enjoyed it even though it’s so sad what happened to this area

[@davidpaolinellie8085]

Sad This is Nostalgia, A Time Not So Distant When Our Companies Thrived and Were Suppliers To The World. How Sad This Is But A Memory Now

[@chrome2infinity938]

Id say the global economy worked out really well for the usa wouldnt you say? Now you can put a tv in the crapper for pennies on the dollar. Just have to pull some overtime at the taco bell.

[@louhoward6865]

Youngstown was a great place to grow up in. I lived there for the first 50 years of my life then moved out of state because I did not want my young kids to grow up in Ytown. Boardman, and Austintown are not much better. The population went from 167 thousand to about 65 thousand. What a shame. Norhing there but tumbling down houses and crime ridden neighbor hoods. If it wasn't for YSU Youngstown would be a sad memory.

[@ulin4226]

I used to work in Y-town for 10 years for a hydraulic equipment mfg from 1995 to 2005. Lived in Canfield. The mills were all shut down by that time already and there were only one or two ‘mini-mills’ left. They produced specialty steels with a fraction of the personal the old mills employed. The Youngstown downtown area was a ghost-town with a lot of boarded-up storefronts. Drug related gang violence was rampant and being in the wrong part of town after sunset was risking your life! The ‘old-timers’ still believed that the mills would come back one day. I wasn’t going to wait around and moved south. Still have a few friends up there who regret not having done so themselves!

[@pattymiller9040]

I worked off & on in Ytown for years; it has had it's ups and downs, but is surviving, thanks to YSU!!! And, the downtown appears to be coming alive again!!

[@JoeGarchar1960]

The kid had great insight!

[@paulbroderick8438]

Steel jobs weren't lost, they moved somewhere else!!

[@Nape1962]

I LOVE THIS FILM IT SPEAKS TO OUR HISTORY , WE ARE YOUNGSTOWN THE SHORT FILM CAN BE SEEN ALSO ON KZbin .

[@dasboot5387]

Nape1962 quit plugging your shitty film I’ve seen it

[@rosalindshays5679]

Hard to believe that 16 years after this film was produced, Youngstown Sheet and Tube was kaput!

[@jimbos3421]

It's a damn shame that this country was sold out back in the 70's when most of us were too young to do anything about it!

[@j.b.9895]

You would have done then what your doing now with the huge problems we have now in the good ol’ USA ..nothing

[@Golfing422]

To think of all the know how our country has lost in the last 40 years. If we had to bring all this back, I don’t see the skill here to do it. An average CEO today has no idea how the products are made. We are headed for the stone ages that’s for sure.

[@j.b.9895]

Start up companies with the intention of building all USA in many industries, such as textile, found out very quickly that they couldn’t because the skilled labor and support infrastructure doesn’t exist here anymore

[@nickprice9979]

really cool video

[@kevinbraden9445]

East Chicago Indiana , mother Inland steel also there

[@keithmedovich6889]

Those nice houses and neighborhoods probably don't exist there anymore

[@kevinbraden9445]

I want my bike

[@bigsirenguy]

Where did that stock get him today?? Nowhere. :(

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

That is rather sad and ironic.

[@bigsirenguy]

+Christopher Sobieniak The mill shut down in '77 I think.

[@macneoh7418]

His family probably had to burn it to keep warm.

[@Malama_Ki]

But the bike would be worth some bucks to a collector.

[@dale6613]

Little Jimmy done alright for himself now he sells Crack in Lincoln Park.

[@UnitCrane514]

Hello, I noticed that you said you had a PDF file of the Insley K-12 crane that you used to own, I was wondering if you could possibly email it to me if thats not to much to ask????

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Were basic oxygen furnaces (BOF) ever used by Youngstown Sheet and Tube in later years? Nice vintage steel making film. Thanks for sharing!

[@rickzysk1141]

nope

[@josephliptak]

From hard-working middle class families to muggers, thugs, and thieves. What a shame, these punks ruined a good city.

[@jeffreyboswell8808]

Foreign completion put Youngstown Indiana Pittsburgh Cleveland behind the a ball kept things in America the decline hurt yo cle det Pitt chi did not change with the time jeff Boswell from Youngstown Ohio lives in Houston texas

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Jimmy lost all.his cash and when crazy and he don't like steel mills no.more his new bike came from china steel mill

[@jimb6781]

Mob car bombings of early 1960s

[@neverforget3520]

Youngstown tune-ups🔥

[@applesucks2633]

Unions killed the steel industry… I bet his buddy still has that cool bike

[@obfuscated3090]

That's actually a myth propagated by the business owners who lobbied for NAFTA. Germany has a thriving UNIONIZED steel industry, but German businessmen are less fond of tanking their companies.