While reading local newspaper accounts, private narrations and photos on Facebook of the abrupt shutdown of eight steel mills in the Youngstown area in the late 70s, came across mention of Rick Rowland's present efforts to build a small museum featuring local mill history and rail vehicles used.
Great to see this happening.
Was a teenaged visitor to Ytown relatives in the 50s, some of whom worked in those nonstop, roaring mills which overwhelmed the senses, enjoyed the fast-disappearing steam locos cruising the half-dozen busy railroads through there .
There has been some recovery, a couple small, modernized mills, but a return to the worn-out, monster-mill past is gone, along with most of the city's past, mostly jobless population.
