Wow! That was a great video history of Weirton Steel. Thanks for sharing! I sold couplings and spindles for Zurn and Kop-Flex to the mills in Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley.
Imagine buying a company for 200k. You can't even buy a house nice house for that now. I work at Cleveland Cliffs in Weirton and it's a good job probably the best in the area. There is hope. That video is really cool both of my grandfather's were steelworkers one in Weirton and one in Stubenville. I'm happy to be the third generation taking care of my family. God bless
If we could only go back in time!!!! What the past has so, so much to teach us. The state of this country today, and it's people (Not All, Thankfully) are in such a bad state morally, it's absolutely frightening. God Bless America!!!!!
I lived right across the river back in the early eighties when the employees were trying to acquire and operate the mill. I wonder if they made a go of it.
d e austin No, the employee ownership was the beginning of the end. A couple companies owned it. Now it's just a tin mill owned by Arcelor Mittal. The steel mill is being torn down now. The tin mill was recently hiring, they need 30 workers. They didn't find any.
@@erichuff6945 where did they advertise that they were hiring? Ive been to every local employmentvoffice n never heard of them hiring, as I would have been first in line.
Brent Arbogast it's a union job you go to the steel workers union pay your dues, join the union and apply. The way it has been done for almost 100 years.
@@67Lucky67 it's really not a bad place to live. The cost of living here is very reasonable. There's not to much to do though. It's nice cuz it's only 30 min drive to Pittsburgh. The mill is all gone. This video is definitely a thing of the past..
Thanks for sharing! Great story of how great the Ohio Valley once was.
Wow! That was a great video history of Weirton Steel. Thanks for sharing! I sold couplings and spindles for Zurn and Kop-Flex to the mills in Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley.
I'm certain there are still things being used today from steel forged at Weirton Steel. Thanks to all the hard working people who worked there.
Not much in safety gear back then! AWESOME VIDEO!!
Sad that it's all gone now.
Ernest Weir and Tommy Millsop have got to be spinning in their graves over what became of their mill.
You are right there was no safety equipment back then.thats what made the men so hard working back then
Steel men so awesome 👏 family you might say.
Imagine buying a company for 200k. You can't even buy a house nice house for that now. I work at Cleveland Cliffs in Weirton and it's a good job probably the best in the area. There is hope. That video is really cool both of my grandfather's were steelworkers one in Weirton and one in Stubenville. I'm happy to be the third generation taking care of my family. God bless
If Ernest Weir was alive today to see what's left of his mill now.
If we could only go back in time!!!! What the past has so, so much to teach us. The state of this country today, and it's people (Not All, Thankfully) are in such a bad state morally, it's absolutely frightening. God Bless America!!!!!
I'm sure a lot of "mini-mills" in the United States contributed to the downfall of this once large, integrated, steel mill empire.
I stood on one of those same hills and watched them destroy so much history when they demolished the basic oxygen plant
Was layed off in '79 and left town...
I lived right across the river back in the early eighties when the employees were trying to acquire and operate the mill. I wonder if they made a go of it.
d e austin No, the employee ownership was the beginning of the end. A couple companies owned it. Now it's just a tin mill owned by Arcelor Mittal. The steel mill is being torn down now.
The tin mill was recently hiring, they need 30 workers. They didn't find any.
@@erichuff6945 where did they advertise that they were hiring? Ive been to every local employmentvoffice n never heard of them hiring, as I would have been first in line.
Brent Arbogast it's a union job you go to the steel workers union pay your dues, join the union and apply. The way it has been done for almost 100 years.
The employees ran it but they still were powerless to stop the board of directors from selling it.
Didn't Great Lakes Steel operate the first basic oxygen furnaces in the United States?
No, McClouth Steel which was about 5 miles south used the BOFs.
No, McClouth Steel which was about 5 miles south of Great Lakes first used BOFs in the US.
@@g1sokool669 Thanks for setting the record straight!
I’m from Weirton
What are things like in town now?
@@67Lucky67 it's really not a bad place to live. The cost of living here is very reasonable. There's not to much to do though. It's nice cuz it's only 30 min drive to Pittsburgh. The mill is all gone. This video is definitely a thing of the past..
@@joechiodi5529 Thanks for the input. Its sad to see American industries sold for scrap.
@@67Lucky67 it really is and the people who were hired to demolish parts of it could care less about the community
Shout out from Chester!
What happened to Philips? I'm assuming he died.