Ytown Steel

Check out my mini-documentary about Youngstown- Part 1: Part 2:

Thanks for the historic photos and the Mon valley group from Flickr!

You can check out allot of my other work here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanposey/

Just joined myself, thanks for the heads up! http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanposey/

I wouldn't leave out the legacy of massive disinvestment by industry and the accompanying effect of deindustrialization. The flight of industry and capital to the sunbelt (and out of the country) has had a disproportionate impact on the midwest and northeast. Even for cities like Pittsburgh, which handled the decline of the steel industry as well as could be expected, total recovery has been elusive.

Please check out my photo essay on Rust Wire http://rustwire.com/2009/06/18/photo-essay-pittsburgh-steel/

Sorry about no links http://www.walletpop.com/mortgages/dangerous-cities?icid=200100397x1214027203x1200885836

Youngstown at 15 with fourth highest murder rate per capita and Cleveland at 11. :-o

There was a movement known as the "ecumenical coalition" where local churches and union leaders tried to keep the mills open as a worker owned enterprise. They estimated it would have taken $300 million to modernize and convert the mills in order to make them sustainable. The coalition lobbied the government for a grant but they were refused, that was the end for steel in the Mahoning Valley.

Just like I remember it :) you captured the campus quite nicely

The Napa series, photo number nine was taken near the top of Mt. Saint Helena.

This was a slide show done to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Black Monday 1977-2007. http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/6676