Homestead Town

The story of the Glory Boom Town - Homestead, Pa.

Homestead grew from a tiny village to become the center of the steel industry. It built the steel for the Empire State Buidling and both world wars. Thousands toiled in its mills and fought for workers rights. In the1980's the mill closed and was torn down replaced by a shopping center. With the good paying jobs lost, Homestead's population fell to 3500 in the 2000 census. The ex-steeler workers and their families can be found in the hundreds of Steeler Bars around the country during football season and are called the Steeler Nation.

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[19Chuck80]

you wouldnt have any films or photos of the gateway restaurant....it was in a part of my family i never got to know....george portokalis owned it

[BassPlayerSusan]

@moparjim63 Boy do I ever agree with you. I avoid big box stores whenever I can.

Ever hear Joe Grushecky's "Homestead"?

[westonsz]

The current recession is not a cycle we are here for a reason and the reason is we have no industrial base paying good wages and supplying tax dollars to the federal and local government. We can all look foreward to a future of higher taxes and lower wages to fill these holes. Congress has destroyed America. Please vote them all out no matter what lies they tell. The healthcare industry is not the answer because nobody makes enough to afford healthcare.

[moparjim63]

@BassPlayerSusan, havn't shopped in a Wal-Mart or other big box store in several years. I don't support trading honest industry for retail / entertainment complex's, we need to build things again.

Industry has been our strength, the lack of it has made us vunerable and unemployed. People need to use their personal buying power to dictate what is sold in the U.S., hopefully someday america will realize this fact.

[BassPlayerSusan]

@moparjim63 Just think! Now you can buy cheap Chinese-made goods at the big box stores which now occupy the site.

[moparjim63]

I was driving delivery trucks in the pittsburgh area in the 80's and witnessed the closing and dismantling of this and many other steel mills from pittsburgh to youngstown to sharon to cleveland, little did I know that I was watching the systematic dismantling of our industrial infrastructure as well as our cultural base that was associated with it. Where can a honest hard working man find a good paying job today? You need a degree and that's no guarantee either!

[jhn128]

Poor Homestead.. I really hope it does pick up again..

[WWWpetersCOM]

steel mills and job

[seddy138]

nice touch showing chioda's

[cameo9876]

Very well done.