Metro Monthly - "Steel Town" - Youngstown during World War II

[@pauldouglas8062]

This video is great, I was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. I was there when the steel mills started to close down in 1977. I now live in the Cincinnati metro area now over 40 plus years. But I was check news on my hometown and I go home to visit once a year to be with my family. I love Youngstown because it helped me become a good citizen and person for that I love my hometown.

[@poolecharles16]

My grandfather Fred Bankston worked here he still picks out steel from his hands til this day & still stays on Warren ave ❤️❤️❤️

[@gwddmt1]

*At **12:03** to **12:07** is my Grandfather, Ed Wile... He Retired in 1959*

[@karelltulod3079]

Old days is awesome I'm from philippines greetings love peace

[@thomasrounds3337]

I miss Youngstown. Born and raised. Went to Rayen High School. No other place like it. I would've stayed forever if there was work.

[@metromonthly]

Hi Tom. When did you live in Youngstown? When did you leave? I'm thinking it was after 1977. Around 1980? Tell us what you remember growing up.

[@billbelzek6748]

My gramps and his parents immigrated to Ytown in 1924 from Prague --- he worked in the steel mills his whole life and made a nice life for his family --- makes me sad to see the shitty depressing city that Ytown is today

[@mirelaxo]

Yes, many Eastern Europeans came to the US for work. I traced a distance relative from Romania to Youngstown. He served in both wars for the US.

[@shawnrae2952]

This is seriously impressive! Love my city!

[@MarkMeszarosYNG]

Thanks for posting this.

[@metromonthly]

You're welcome. We originally uploaded it nearly 10 years ago.

[@JohnMiller-oz7gv]

This is wonderful.

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

If we can just learn to work together......imagine that!!

[@samarmeni3640]

Was a security guard there in the 70s ashamed everything gone

[@slipstreamvids7422]

The first furnace is a cupola. They are making gray iron. The rest is steel making

[@jeniC12]

Heartbreaking compared to now

[@chrismcdonald3221]

If you want to know what it was like to be at Youngstown Sheet and Tube as well as RGSteel in Warren please get a copy of my book, “Steeltown Down,” available at Amazon Books. I write about my 43 years spent working at both mills as well as writing about what it was like to be one of the last employees at both mills on their last day of operation, as well writing about the machinery, their processes, people I worked with, what it was like during the 1995, 54 day strike at WCI, accidents and unfortunately, deaths, I either witnessed or knew of and what it felt like to work five years as a consultant with a demolition company tearing down RG Steel.

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

meanwhile, back at the mill......

[@kevinbraden9445]

And no ppe

[@johnmontecalvo1508]

thought the same thing.

[@Paul-ed6zy]

Men from the best generation!@@johnmontecalvo1508

[@johnwren3976]

There was no EPA or OSHA until Nixon signed them into law....Worked at Republic in late 60s

[@drillbabydrill8055]

216 likes before mine, ironically the area Code was 216 when I was a kid in Y-Town. grandfather and father worked in mills at one time

[@metromonthly]

I remember when it changed. The 216 area code seems like SO long ago. Was it due to all the fax machines? :)

[@ajajwieie8676]

And now this city is just the Gang's War ground.

[@jeffreybudrovic7785]

This is my town, dead town.

[@macneoh7418]

Now we rely on China 🇨🇳 and Mexico 🇲🇽 to build our stuff. Way to go American 👏

[@davem475]

THEN AFTER the "WAR" the bald headed philander IKE the HEEB said "COME HOME G.I and FK LIKE RABBITS (because we "need" BODIES for FUTURE WARS) !! BABY BOOM DUCHEBAG IKE the ASSHOLE !! SO EVEN though his ADVISERS said "No No IKE we have TECHNOLOGY NOW we DON'T NEED this" (ya how hard was in gonna be to convince a bunch of horny G.I.s and sex starved smelly hole women WITH NO such thing ad BIRTH CONTROL). NOW you KNOW why we have a P-O-S COUNTRY !! (AND the almost WORST PART is ALL those AHOLES that dumped "SEEDS" in holes are ALL DEAD now and WE get to CLEAN UP what is left...PATRIOTISM MY ASS !! FK YOU IKE !!

[@sumankaur4411]

We always relied on China. Since before America was made. All the way back to England. Germany industrialized China a long time ago.

[@metromonthly]

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[@do-not-covet]

Looks like these older folks were running the plants themselves. They were suffering for their kids and they knew everything about those mills, while the young are the privileged learning "theories" and coming home thinking their parents were dumb. Sorry, I just had to say it! My parents worked hard for me and I was privileged and did not know it. I respect my parents but I don't think I respected them enough for what they did for me.

[@JoeMun]

Lmao working class people generally aren’t well educated and their entire life is centered around their job. They think they’re the center of the world. Get with the times, this nostalgia for Y-Town is very misplaced. “The good old days” also included severe redlining, putrid race relations, mafia controlled government corruption, a profitable KKK presence and murders/arson/theft as far as the eye could see. Older folks think they had it tough, but in reality if you were white working class in Youngstown, especially during the 1930s-1970s, you were as privileged as it gets.

[@Nickelbag610]

What? Knowing how to work in a factory and stuff like economic theory or whatever you are referring to are two different kinds of education. There is room for both. If people aren't a healthy amount of smart and strong then we have strong idiots and smart cowards. Neither of these are good and will just lead to a downfall of a country, city, business, whatever you can think of. A college educaticed doctor will be smarter then their parents on say medicine and maybe a couple other things. But their parents may know alot more about how to save money or their family background. Or even specifically their job(exaple my family owned and ran an aluminum factory in the 50's to the 70's so we knew/know alot about aluminum because of this. But not alot about iron, plastic, etc factories. We're not stupid it was just outside our wheel house of knowledge.) Ironically the "know it all collage kid" stereotype started with very late silent generation babies and baby boomers. You know during stuff like the hippie movements. All the men and women in this videos are from the Silent generation and back. None of these people in this video can be baby boomers because this video was made DURING WW2. You know before any baby boomer was even born. So assuming your at the latest a baby boomer did it not frustrate you like at all that your parent's generation where starting wars to get your peers killed for money and image? Did it really not bother you that they called you all dope smoking draft dodgers because you didn't want to die for some cause you where lied to about? Did it not bother you that your parents and their generation where covering up and ignoring how dangerous stuff like asbestos and tobacco where so they could keep making money? Respect your parents all you want but don't be acting like one generation is sinless. Every generation has it's own problems with each other and this goes all the way back to Pluto in pre bible era complaining about the youngers and their "made up problems that totally aren't important." And FYI idk about you but I work in a factory and while now I don't need someone holding my hand. At some point I did need to be trained. But all the new people see is me doing my job like it's nothing. This video was also sorta made as Wartime propaganda/ showing people the might of the Steel industry in Youngstown. So of course they aren't going to show you the bad employees, the trainees, or the dead men from factory accidents. Thats the point of this propaganda.

[@robertszallavarysullivan9570]

Don't beat yourself up too, badly. As youth, we were ignorant and naive.

[@thomasconetsco361]

Yep, and now their all gone😕

[@jimb6781]

Why can't we bring back the early 1960s Mob car bombing?

[@mikeborgmann]

This video makes me wonder, if we had another world war, we cant produce our own steel anymore! We get alot from china....but what if thats who we are fighting?