I grew up in the Gary Indiana/Hammond Indiana, born in 1961 and moved away in 1973...listening to you wonder why things are the way they are and saying people don't care or they're mean...tells me you don't know anything about the history and you should learn about it before making these comments. When I was born, there were close to 40,000 people employed by US Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Inland Steel n Gary and surrounding area. If you consider how many jobs grew out of those 40,000, providing service, food, clothing, homes...etc. that area was a prosperous area. It was great in the years I lived there, my relatives worked at the steel mills, made good livings and retired with pensions. Then, in 1970 or so, President Nixon and his buddies signed a bill to deregulate the steel industry which opened up the foreign markets to flood the country with cheap steel, which the other companies welcomed since it increased their profits. Then, the steel companies started laying off, shutting down and people had to move away to find jobs. This trickled down to all businesses, restaurants and stores, closing them down. Less people, less services needed, less taxes collected to pay for roads and signs and upkeep...get the picture? Not that people didn't care, besides the owners of the companies who cared about profits and stockholders but not about the employees that helped them build their business. These employees built so many things in the 1900's that were needed...steel for cars, appliances, bridges. Then when the war came they built the tanks, ships, jeeps, etc. for winning the war. This was the greatest generation that helped us live the way we are today...they cared more then you will ever know and it was stripped away. Please learn the history before making ignorant and hurtful comments. Watch the channel The Steel City Storm, these guys are Gary born urban explorers...
Appreciate the comments. Every truck driver that delivers and picks up in this area will tell you the same thing. It looks like it was once a proud area. Now it is terrible. Keep in mind I travel most of the country. I have pulled many many loads out of that factory. The area surrounding us steal is a a waste land dump.
@@BigEdandThePups I agree with you 100% that it is a shithole, but I want people to know why it got to this condition. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, the Quad Cities just for example have been affected. It was a nicer place to live...long ago...I am not being critical, just want to be informative. Thanks, Tim
Don't overlook all those domestic mini-mills (can you say "Nucor") that also took away much of the business from fully integrated steel mill operators such as U.S. Steel.
@@BigEdandThePups the crackling bottle is hilarious...dogs loves chewing on those things...my brother had a female German shepherd that went nuts with 2 liter bottles... anyway great video and I subscribed.
You are right 50-60-70 years ago this was the place to live work and have fun it was outstanding. It went down the toilet in the 70's and all the blue collar workers left. I was born in 1965 and we left Gary in 1972 for a better, safer place to live. In the late 60's and early 70's 30,000 people worked at USS and today about 2200 work here.
US Steel Gary, Indiana was my first live loaded coil when I first started driving. You talk about green driver. I got so lost in that place I was late phoning my load number in and if you've ever done that it is hell to get straight. I was a country boy from eastern Ky and had hauled coal for years but when I saw that steel mill I knew otr was for me even after all the trouble I had. Went there many times after and might have gotten food poison from the roach coaches. 😂I thought strip mines were easy to get lost on and they are. You have to have a good radio hauling coal. Seems like no one ever uses one anymore. I saw the check in trailer in your video and I hated sitting in that lot for hours but I knew I was usually heading back to Kentucky to the Toyota warehouse.
Oh meant to say I steam cleaned on 50 or more jobs round eastern Ky..west v..area..got to work around 2 draglines and several big shovels…brutal in winter
@@yeetus6952 The story of Bethlehem Steel ended with its 2003 sale. But its fate was foreseen much earlier. Cleveland-Cliffs replaced Bethlehem. the plant footprint is smaller. Cleveland-Cliffs to shut down Indiana Harbor blast furnace Like its Northshore Mining idling, the company said it's using more scrap and more electric-arc furnaces instead of traditional blast furnaces. so still there but not the same. my father was the head foreman building the place. so yea, I am familiar with its history.
Fix up the neighborhood??????? What are they gong to get back for the investment? Gary was still pretty decent in the 60s, Broadway was the place to go for shopping, even over Chicago. White flight south of O-80 both for the workers and homeowners, And businesses, especially car dealers. Rout 20 had all of the car dealers, and they all went south to Rt 30. There went the Tax base. With the downsizing and automation, even U.S.Steel looks for cutting Their property taxes, and Gary won't push back, They know WHO butters the bread.
white flight when half the people run because a black mayor was elected and major stores move oh and whites burned properties got insurance money built new homes in crown point , merrillville , hobart portage new mall on lincoln highway .
It's got to be your local city corruption and Greedy steel mill company, they are not putting any money back in that town and they're the largest Steel mill in the US?
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I grew up in the Gary Indiana/Hammond Indiana, born in 1961 and moved away in 1973...listening to you wonder why things are the way they are and saying people don't care or they're mean...tells me you don't know anything about the history and you should learn about it before making these comments. When I was born, there were close to 40,000 people employed by US Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Inland Steel n Gary and surrounding area. If you consider how many jobs grew out of those 40,000, providing service, food, clothing, homes...etc. that area was a prosperous area. It was great in the years I lived there, my relatives worked at the steel mills, made good livings and retired with pensions. Then, in 1970 or so, President Nixon and his buddies signed a bill to deregulate the steel industry which opened up the foreign markets to flood the country with cheap steel, which the other companies welcomed since it increased their profits. Then, the steel companies started laying off, shutting down and people had to move away to find jobs. This trickled down to all businesses, restaurants and stores, closing them down. Less people, less services needed, less taxes collected to pay for roads and signs and upkeep...get the picture? Not that people didn't care, besides the owners of the companies who cared about profits and stockholders but not about the employees that helped them build their business. These employees built so many things in the 1900's that were needed...steel for cars, appliances, bridges. Then when the war came they built the tanks, ships, jeeps, etc. for winning the war. This was the greatest generation that helped us live the way we are today...they cared more then you will ever know and it was stripped away. Please learn the history before making ignorant and hurtful comments. Watch the channel The Steel City Storm, these guys are Gary born urban explorers...
Appreciate the comments. Every truck driver that delivers and picks up in this area will tell you the same thing. It looks like it was once a proud area. Now it is terrible. Keep in mind I travel most of the country. I have pulled many many loads out of that factory. The area surrounding us steal is a a waste land dump.
I bet in the 60s it was a gorgeous hopping place. Currently it is not a safe place to be.
@@BigEdandThePups I agree with you 100% that it is a shithole, but I want people to know why it got to this condition. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, the Quad Cities just for example have been affected. It was a nicer place to live...long ago...I am not being critical, just want to be informative. Thanks, Tim
My point for the video is that us steal should clean it up.
Don't overlook all those domestic mini-mills (can you say "Nucor") that also took away much of the business from fully integrated steel mill operators such as U.S. Steel.
Once you left that Mill and under that bridge one of the greatest places to watch trains back in the day as you're on Green Street
Great video!!! Love listening to you and thanks for the cool tour!!!
Thanks for watching
@@BigEdandThePups the crackling bottle is hilarious...dogs loves chewing on those things...my brother had a female German shepherd that went nuts with 2 liter bottles... anyway great video and I subscribed.
they have been repairing road inside the mill / not on the road going out very minimal
You are right 50-60-70 years ago this was the place to live work and have fun it was outstanding. It went down the toilet in the 70's and all the blue collar workers left. I was born in 1965 and we left Gary in 1972 for a better, safer place to live. In the late 60's and early 70's 30,000 people worked at USS and today about 2200 work here.
US Steel Gary, Indiana was my first live loaded coil when I first started driving. You talk about green driver. I got so lost in that place I was late phoning my load number in and if you've ever done that it is hell to get straight. I was a country boy from eastern Ky and had hauled coal for years but when I saw that steel mill I knew otr was for me even after all the trouble I had. Went there many times after and might have gotten food poison from the roach coaches. 😂I thought strip mines were easy to get lost on and they are. You have to have a good radio hauling coal. Seems like no one ever uses one anymore. I saw the check in trailer in your video and I hated sitting in that lot for hours but I knew I was usually heading back to Kentucky to the Toyota warehouse.
Ol Floyd co hillbilly spotted eastern Ky and had to chime in…buddie went tryin to get on at Toyota this past wk…
Oh meant to say I steam cleaned on 50 or more jobs round eastern Ky..west v..area..got to work around 2 draglines and several big shovels…brutal in winter
worked at Bethlehem steel, Burns Harboin in blast furnace, 110 roll mill and machine shop. long torn down,
The plant in burns still exist
@@yeetus6952 The story of Bethlehem Steel ended with its 2003 sale. But its fate was foreseen much earlier.
Cleveland-Cliffs replaced Bethlehem. the plant footprint is smaller.
Cleveland-Cliffs to shut down Indiana Harbor blast furnace
Like its Northshore Mining idling, the company said it's using more scrap and more electric-arc furnaces instead of traditional blast furnaces.
so still there but not the same.
my father was the head foreman building the place.
so yea, I am familiar with its history.
continental can long gone.
"through"
Thank you for correcting my proper use of a word on a video I posted a year ago. Now my life is complete!
I was fourth generation USS “millrat” and yeah this ride did nothing for me.
Thanks for watching
Fix up the neighborhood??????? What are they gong to get back for the investment? Gary was still pretty decent in the 60s, Broadway was the place to go for shopping, even over Chicago. White flight south of O-80 both for the workers and homeowners, And businesses, especially car dealers. Rout 20 had all of the car dealers, and they all went south to Rt 30. There went the Tax base. With the downsizing and automation, even U.S.Steel looks for cutting Their property taxes, and Gary won't push back, They know WHO butters the bread.
white flight when half the people run because a black mayor was elected and major stores move oh and whites burned properties got insurance money built new homes in crown point , merrillville , hobart portage new mall on lincoln highway .
So blame one of the areas biggest employers instead of the people who made it a big violent ghetto?
Another depressing steel mill
Why is that spot flooded there where you get out at? can't daydream that somehow?
Because they maintain next to nothing there.
The price of wood went up since then
through next time not threw!!!
There is enough Blame to go around, I personally knew Gary When.
Gary Indiana is a depressed area for sure
They have industry. It’s very difficult to understand why it is such a mess.
All steel mill locations are depressed
It's got to be your local city corruption and Greedy steel mill company, they are not putting any money back in that town
and they're the largest Steel mill in the US?
What a waist of time, didn’t show anything of the steel mill, my dad worked there for 35 years, i was hoping for more, very disappointed ☹️!
I could only show where the semi went. I do have other videos i made couple years ago on here.
not a bad vidio but I have seen better.
Thanks for watching
So what makes you so perfect and if you dont like going to Gary then dont and quit your bitching.
@@randy2812 thanks for watching