U.S. Steel - Tom Russell

[ashling]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw9pvDWFz4&feature=related

[FarCenter]

1. It's now a shopping mall

The Waterfront is a super-regional open air shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall near Pittsburgh. The shopping mall sits on land once occupied by U.S. Steel's Homestead Steel Works plant, which closed in 1987. It has a gross leasable area of 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) in "The Waterfront" and 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) in "The Town Center." The development officially opened in 1999. More development continued into the early 21st century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterfront

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Great tune but sad...

I worked for U.S. Steel American Bridge Division and helped erect some of the very steel the man is singing about.

The free traitors have shipped the great American Industrial Base that protected America for a hundred and fifty years, to the far east. How could they be so greedy and short sighted?

[Citizen Worker]

3. The archival images bring this moving song to life. The Homestead Works has been demolished and

replaced by a shopping mall.

Several years ago on a visit to Pittsburgh a friend took me to view a mural on the side of Chiyoda's Tavern in Homestead. The mural was a depiction of the once mighty Homestead Steel Works and the workers who produced the steel. I took a photo of the mural and like the steel mill it is now gone as well.