chadslink

I was out in California earlier this week and picked up all of my photo albums for a biography that I will be doing later and I happened to come across some of my Dad's stuff. It was not a picture but it was a pay stub from the S&T in 1943. I thought it was kind of interesting to see what the wages were during the middle of WW2 when the steel mills were going full blast.

Hi Chad, My father worked in the power plant at USS Ohio Works on the other side of town. Then he moved on to the blast furnaces, then the open hearth. He excelled at crane control. I'm not sure what my Dad did at the power house but I do know that he had to have the Stationary Engineer's License to do it. I think it may have been a very cushy job as he never got dirty and in a steel mill thats kinda hard to do.

Sorry if this double posts as I got an error message that my pic was too big so I am re-doing the whole thing. Hi Robert, I will surely be around for a while. When I see all of the mills as they were in my youth, it saddens me that they no longer exist. We don't make anything in the USA anymore and we need to get back to doing it. Thanks for the welcome, KJP........the only picture I could lay my hands on at the moment is a picture of my United Steel Workers Card. It was for the year 1950. Why I ever kept that I'll never know.

Hi Rick........my Dad used the entrance at Poland Ave and Walton on the Struthers side of the mill. I'm not sure but think that was called Stop 14. My Uncle Phil Diana used to run the projectors at the Palace Theater in Youngstown and I guess that's all gone now too. We lived at the corner of Creed St. and Poland Ave. until 1946.

My father worked for the YS&T for about 18 years. He worked in the Power Plant as a stationary Engineer.The pictures of the Sheet and Tube are exactly as I remember them in late 30's. I was born in Sturthers in 1930 and would often go with my Mother to the Struthers entrance to the Mill and pick up my Dad. President Roosevelt was at the Sheet and Tube sometime in the late 30's or early 40's. I can remember my Mother lifting me up to see him. He went in the Struthers entrance. As for me, I went to work for the YS&T after I graduated from Struthers High School in 1948. I was living with my Aunt in Youngstown at the time and would take a trolly bus down Mahoning Ave, through Youngstown, and then on down Wilson St to the Mill. I can remember having to walk over a bridge to get in but don't know the street in Campbell that intersects Wilson St.

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