Braddock: Steel’s Legacy and the Struggles of Deindustrialization | FULL DOCUMENTARY

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  @maggyboo1 · 1 year ago

  My grandfather did 50 years in the Homestead mill, I remember the whistle blew and they all came out from that tunnel.    Thank you for sharing this history.

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• KE

  @kevinmcclainsr.2706 · 1 year ago

  I grew up in Jeannette Pa thirty miles east of Braddock. My father worked at the Edgar Thompson Steel Mill in Braddock for thirty years before he retired. He was a bricklayer reclining the coke ovens in the mill.  As a youngster I can remember on payday my dad would take my mom, two younger brothers and me to Braddock to pick up his check. I can remember downtown Braddock the bank and my mom’s favorite store, the Salvation Army store. At that time in the early’60s downtown Braddock was always busy with the trolley cars and traffic. As a  youngster I also played midget football against Braddock’s midget football team and they had some good teams. Also my family lived in Braddock for a short time before moving to Jeannette. It is sad to see Braddock be forgotten. Braddock is a major part of American history.

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• BE

  @bernadettebarrett-nf8nb · 1 year ago

  My dad worked 40 years in the Braddock Mills, paid with his life from  mesothelioma, Andrew Carnegie is a filthy word ,I love Braddock , beautiful city ,known for fabulous shopping in fifties

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• MR

  @MrCtsSteve · 1 year ago

  It's almost the same thing here up in Michigan with the Auto industry. It's a shell of its former self.  When a plant closes ....it just wipes out the community.

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  @369Bandido · 1 year ago

  My Uncle did 35 years at Luken"s Steel, Coatesville, PA🙌🏾🙌🏾🤜🏾

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• SI

  @SilverBulletOBW · 1 year ago (edited)

  Pretty well done documentary! I grew up only 8 minutes from that mill, and have actually now worked there for almost 20 years! Like some of the old timers I started out as a laborer shoveling coke dust and other materials for several years before moving onto better positions. Also went to school with the offspring of “Deedle” seen at Vincent’s, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drg4aCJewTM&amp;t=5160">1:26:00</a> marker. Safe for me to say roots still run kinda deep! Now the fate of USS hangs in the balance, as we feel threatened CEO David Burritt is going to shut us down if the sale to Nippon doesn’t go through. Needless to say a lot of us are going to be looking for new jobs soon (if not now!) for when the worst case may come to pass.

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• DL

  @dlthompson945 · 1 year ago

  Wonderful and moving piece of work. The slow pace reflects the slow death of that town.

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• MJ

  @mjookie · 1 year ago

  Documentary as art. What a wonderful moving and above all beautiful portrait of a city that was left for dead by corporate America and the sheer strength compassion and resilience of the people left to pick up the pieces. I’m from South Wales UK and can identify with every moment ❤

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• SU

  @Sunluvr1 · 1 year ago

  Really well done documentary !! Thank you for this quality work &nbsp;!!

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• JU

  @julesotis13 · 1 year ago

  I appreciate the non traditional style of this doc....the diversity of comments even biased or negative ones also demonstrates an effectiveness of the material presented and this is obviously more relevant now than ever .... and be mature there&apos;s many sides to these issues and one thing clear is human greed needs to be put in check

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• LW

  @lwells3937 · 1 year ago

  The CEOs should pay to clean this up

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• SH

  @sheehy933 · 1 year ago

  I live in Homestead a mile upriver from Braddock. It was home to a huge United States Steel plant. My father worked in OH(open hearth)5 as a crane operator. He also worked for J&amp;l Steel in the Southside. I expected to work in the mill but by the time I turned 18 in the late 70&apos;s the downturn was well on its way. To this day these towns are a shell of their former selves. Yeah, we got the Waterfront shopping complex on the former site of USSteel but it is seperated from Homestead. I understand industries have cycles of boom and bust. The bust cycle here was really bad.

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