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I Was All Over That Mill

"I got to watch that. This was big for me. It was something that I just dearly loved..." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/744032992&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rich Elliott. Transcript for I Was All Over That Mill Bethlehem Steel had...
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How We Ended Up Coming to Gary

"It was the dirtiest place in the mill. But I guess they made a decent salary. So he encouraged my father to leave Florida and move to Gary." https://youtu.be/3bUnw0wexeY Transcript for How We Ended Up Coming to Gary We grew...
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Fascinated by the Steelmills

"It was really something, it was kind of like the movies!" https://youtu.be/XoK_wLuWcDY Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for Fascinated by the Steelmills When I was a kid, we heard the mills, we could see the sky light...
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The Patch

"Anybody who was not well-connected, you go to the Patch." https://youtu.be/ppzO37KeKCg Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for The Patch My grandmother, my mother’s mother, was a twin. And they left Poland and they didn’t speak English. They...
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Eliminated by Technology

"It was really a grim reaper for jobs...sweeping away thousands at one time." https://youtu.be/IbKKKL2BH4M Edited by Welcome Project Intern Ella Speckhard Transcript for Eliminated by Technology First time I went in the steel mill was 1969. I came home from...
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Some of the Best Ground in the World

"Nowadays, most of these farms have ripped all the fences out and they can take the 40-acre fields and they make them into 200 and 300." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1177389883&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · Some of...
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