Sentences with phrase «steel mill town»

I've stumbled across a mobile home park lead in a small steel mill town in PA and I may have a motivated seller on the hook.

LaToya Ruby Frazier (2012 Visual Arts) has been photographing her family and her hometown of Braddock, PA, since she was 16, bearing witness to Braddock's decline from a booming steel mill town to a «distressed» municipality with widespread pollution and increasingly scarce jobs.

For years, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, left, has been chronicling working - class life in the steel mill town of Braddock, Pa..

The artist's hometown of Braddock, a forgotten steel mill town in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is marked by a geography of postindustrial degradation.

The steel mill town of Braddock, Pennsylvania was once thriving, but is now on life support... just like the father of Rodney and Russell Baze.

Frazier's work is an intimate look at her family, connecting their experiences to the history of her home town, and its drastic decline from one of America's first steel mill towns to the «distressed municipality» it is today.

Frazier's work is an intimate look at her family, connecting their experiences to the history of her hometown, and its drastic decline from one of America's first steel mill towns to the «distressed municipality» it is today.

Her work is an intimate look at her family, connecting their experiences to the history of her hometown, and its drastic decline from one of America's first steel mill towns to the distressed municipality it is today.

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At its height around 1920, 14,000 people worked at the steel mill in the town, which featured 200 homes and walkable streets.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured Canadian mills and steel towns last week in an attempt to take credit for influencing Trump.

Most started playing professionally on one of the thousands of semi-pro clubs and company teams scattered across the country: steel mills and ice creameries offered $ 40 a month plus a job for good arms and hot bats, and every small town in the Midwest seemed to have its own amateur squad.

To the residents of Donora, Pa., a mill town in a crook of the Monongahela River, the daily haze from nearby zinc and steel plants was the price of keeping their families fed.

Clairton, a mill town, is «home to the [U.S. Steel] Clairton Coke Works, which is the largest coke - making facility in the nation,» said Rachel Filippini, executive director of the environmental organization Group Against Smog and Pollution.

Director Terrence Malick's beautifully shot period piece, which won an Oscar for its cinematography, tells the story of Bill (Richard Gere), an early - 1900s Chicago steel - mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man.

is less about the production than about the saga of Weirton, West Virginia — where most of the film's exteriors were shot — and the crumbling steel mill that once held the town together.

Once a thriving industrial town, gritty Youngstown has been in economic free fall since its last steel mill closed in the 1970s.

These are unraveling lives in a town that's long since unraveled as steel mills closed and industry left the valley.

Braddock is a small town near Pittsburgh that was once prosperous, with a steel mill that employed many people.

Now nearing the fifth decade of his career, Jack Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1939, a steel - mill town and the second largest city in the state.

As the wall label informs, despite the fact that the hospital provided health care to residents (including the artist's family) suffering from exposure to environmental toxins released by the steel mills and was the town's largest employer, the hospital closed its doors in January 2010 and was subsequently demolished.

Growing up «out of the furnace» in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town near Pittsburgh that was then in its heyday, Bartman vividly remembers images of the mills at night and the energy of the rich colors emanating from the steel furnaces and reflected in the skies.

Her video and photography work is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania — her hometown — and it documents her family through three generations of women living in a former steel - mill town.

LaToya Ruby Frazier Growing up during the 1980s in a shrinking steel - mill town — under Reagan - era policies of trickle - down economics, government deregulation, outsourcing and environmental pollution — made me keenly aware of my family's plight in an industrial landscape.

Braddock, home to Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill (built in 1875), is now being called a «ghost town».

This city was built on steel, and the AK Steel mill is still the city's largest employer, though its headquarters were moved from town in steel, and the AK Steel mill is still the city's largest employer, though its headquarters were moved from town in Steel mill is still the city's largest employer, though its headquarters were moved from town in 2007.