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Very cool movie. I lived less than 7 miles from this plant in Dearborn. You could see the smoke stacks on a clear day. My father bought a new 1968 four door Thunderbird. I remember the day he brought it home. I can remember seeing acres of new cars in the storage lots between Rotunda Dr and Oakwood Blvd behind Stout Jr. High. Most of the time it was Mustangs in those lots. It was a great place to grow up in the 1960’s. So much of all my old neighborhood has changed in Dearborn. I have many fond memories living in Dearborn.

How many caught that Lincoln suicide 4 door town car in the beginning ?? those open auto racks are a thing of the past they went away in the early 70s

Tom would be very disappointed these days

Moral of the story: when towns become dependent on corporations they lose! At the end of the day the business (in this case the steel mill) is there to make money (turn a profit) the minute they start to lose money or find ways to make more of it, they will leave that city and in its wake are thousands of families left to wonder what's next? A great example of this is what happened to GM once they left towns like Flint, Michigan in the 80's and the same fate happened to them just like what happened to Youngstown.

I think this is older than '71.

Wow, the long defunct E 5. !!

Loved the black & 🎉white helmets, ,& the Mack engines. ( Photographed A FD, for NFPA.

I remember, those ticker- tape bells !

Now truck drivers doing do own stuff and don’t wear uniforms look like captain uniforms

Back in time so peaceful.

Been around big trucks for 66 of my 85 years, I run most days and load and unload trailers in northern Minnesota. Home nights. Drive a 2017 KW , 515 hp 13 apps governing at 65 . I am sent to load pipe line equipment, wood stoves from Intl Falls, conastoga, flats, steps and vans . Flatbedding in my blood it’s an old man’s world !

He mentioned stereo systems and computers, but it mentioned that everything will be all in one big phone the stereo system your phone communication Internet is all in the phone now it’s amazing. The phone is a computer in your pocket.

Rampart this is Squad 51

this engineering really paid off. the Buicks my family had in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s could usually go at least 86,000 miles before the engine went bad.

Some are true because it's predictable, some are false because technology is abused by people. It's 2024 and the people are crazy! Please bring back those years!

2024: Tom stopped to help the car driver and was beaten and had his truck stolen. Tom was fired, lost his house and his wife. He must of course still pay child support for the children he's not allowed to see. A Career In Trucking😁

I love vintage videos, nowadays in school they tell us so much lies about reality of universe. Thank You for uploading old educational materials ❤

"Things made in Sandusky and other small towns" . Lol yeah this is definetly a bit dated.

They didn't mention Blink 182 or Disturbed loll

"On the toll road it's smooth driving for Tom!"

The biggest difference between current times and this period of history is that immigrants wanted to assimilate. Their children learned English and their grandchildren knew only English.

I'm trying to figure out if we failed the 60's or if they failed us...

Clown college awaits

When the mills closed Youngstown and surrounding areas died.

From which year is this?

Thank you very education i.e empowerment for Indigenous of Mindanao

If you want to read a first hand account of what it was like on Black Monday in 1977 as well as what it was like in 1987, ( the very last day of operation at Sheet and Tube,) please get a copy of my book, “Steeltown Down,” available at Amazon Books. I worked for 43 years at both Youngstown Sheet and Tube as well as R G Steel, ( formerly WCI Steel,) and was one of the last three men at Sheet and Tube on its’ very last day and the very last employee at R G Steel on its’ last day. I write about those tragic last days as well as the machinery, their processes, the people, accidents and unfortunately, deaths I either witnessed or knew of, what it was like to go thru a 54 day semi violent strike at WCI, as well as many other experiences. If you do decide to get a copy I think you’ll get a much better understanding of how hard working and dedicated the men and women who worked there were and what a tragedy their mill closures really were.

An excellent explanation of the slide rule but it would have been easier to understand if he’d used a laser pointer. Cheers from Boston ☘️

I definitely had inflatable furniture in the early 2000’s

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It always fascinates me to watch cars being built from raw iron ore and seeing the finished car. I've loved automobiles ever since I was 2 years old. It was great seeing the beautiful Thunderbird, Lincoln, Mustang, and Cougar of 1968-1969 being finished and built. I sure wish they would have filmed this in color! I am sure everyone watching noticed that none of the workers wore any type of breathing protection or ear protection. If some of the younger ones are still alive today, they probably are deaf or got cancer from the carcinogens in the paint and breathing the lethal fumes of molten metal. I doubt any of them enjoyed a long retirement, sadly. I will never forget my school field trip visit in 1972 to the Arlington, Texas GM assembly plant. I was 11 years old. My best friend and I begged to lag behind the group so we could watch every process from arriving engines at one end, to hearing the cars fire up to life and being driven to the transport lot. I have never forgotten that trip. Beautiful Cutlasses, Monte Carlos, Skylarks, and Grand Prix.

And here I am now, 67 years later, watching this to see how a Slide Rule I got in Goodwill today works (Dad showed me many years ago, but I only briefly messed with that one). this one's an old Faber Castil 57/87, and was the later one made in 1972. One of the last of the slide rules to be made before pocket scientific calculators began to replace them. Nautical computers (like slide rules, but round) are still super popular though.

I'm sure the Mom F'N LOVES that god damn printer in the kitchen!!!!! ll

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Knights of the road

Pretty much houses of today still look like the houses of the 60's but now everything is sheet rock and particle board.

I worked for Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company at a float and automotive plant in Lathrop and in Ohio. Fascinating stuff was going on in the automotive industry during the mid 90s..but a lot of shutdowns too. I was glad to see this manufacturing face on. 😀

2024 and I live in a building built in 1926 and own a home built in 1905.

I am a toolpusher but I started roustabout. I work in different countries from Africa to middle east for 35yrs.

White state

I once heard of a fella who knew a man that didn’t work at a car factory at all.

Very good video

I'm only getting recc'd this video because I watched a vastly better video first. "Columbus Knew the Earth Was Round (and so did everyone else)" czcams.com/video/F_Tbw5q219w/video.html

Back then manufacturing knew the hazards of 8 hours of exposure to sprayed solvents, loud percussive noises, metal particles from grinders, welders, etc. But it was a different era, and men were seen as expendable.

The Reality of the Future is Mass Homelessness, people living in Tiny Houses, Tents and under Freeways or on Sidewalks.

TO BAD THE MAN WHO HAD THE REP. FOR BEING A GREAT ENGINEER AND HUMANITARIAN, WASN'T VERY EFFECTIVE OR HELPFUL WHEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION HIT. AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAPPENED DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE. FDR DID WHAT HOOVER WAS AFRAID TO DO. AND THAT WAS GIVE AMERICA BACK TO ITS PEOPLE. AND FDR WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS. THE MAN WHO SAVED THE USA AND THE WORLD.

When he said he would rather have a komatsu over a cat 955L I turned it off

Well I do own a 3D TV so that became a thing.....

The Wild West!