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Duncan Richards
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Life on Two Wheels: The Story of Chet Jetski
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Life on Two Wheels: The Story of Chet Jetski
Ted Lopez, and the History of the Pueblo Steel Mill
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Ted Lopez, and the History of the Pueblo Steel Mill
History of CF&I and the Pueblo Steel Mill
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History of CF&I and the Pueblo Steel Mill
My Grampa was told by a very good supervisor of his in 1992, when I leave your leave. They both left in 1992, he received a 3000+ pension for the rest of his life. People who stayed with Oregon steel got only 1/2 of the pension. It’s sad and pathetic how many people got screwed. I’m just glad my grampa was able to retire at 60 with 42 years of service. He started there at 18
My dad worked summers there in the 40s
Thank you, and thank your parents for their foresight! I enjoyed this. The historian was excellent. Can you share her name please so I can look her up further? Thank you very much!
Grateful to see this, thank you very much!
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This lady’s voice is horrible
We are so proud to know Mr Ted Lopez and to hear his story. It is so impressive to hear the details that he can recall from so far back and specific conversations and interactions. Amazing! What a wonderful advocate for himself and other steel workers as well as a good example of perseverance to survive to provide for his family! Bravo Ted! We are blessed to know you and know your story! 🙏👍🏼💝
I love listening to old people speak and having conversations. I wish I could talk to my grandfather and ask him more about his life. He's in heaven now. When we came out of the funeral home there was the biggest most beautiful rainbow 🌈 in the sky. He was a believer of Jesus Christ.
My husband's grandfather was murdered at the mill by a co-worker. Trying to find out what sentence the murderer got.
In the early '70s I worked there as a motor inspector (maintenance electrician) and 'floated' from mill to mill. The grader shop paid the best tonnage. The coking plant stunk. I started as a laborer in the open hearth chipping clinkers and later became a motor inspector. Central shops was interesting with all the manufacturing of parts for the mill. I enjoyed watching the largest steam engine west of the Mississippi, 22,500 hp they claimed. I was watching the operator in the rail mill when the ingot slid over too far and caused the rolls to jam on it--the steam engine broke the 'fuse' steel spool with no effort and the whole mill of a half mile? jumped. The rod mill with its red hot wire cobbles being formed when the wire was pushed through the cooling cones and become a wild thing. Always fun to watching the sky glow from pouring skulls from the ladles. Then there was the time Sears sent in 55 gallon barrels filled with broken tools to be remelted in the open hearth. Don't forget the dynamite on a stick used to blow the plug in the open hearth to pour the steel into the ladles. Local Walter's beer served at the union hall was NOT one of my favorites.
The railroad I was employed by, Chicago & North Western Railway (now Union Pacific Railroad), purchased CF&I rail back in the 1980s. Since I was an ultra-sound rail test car operator for the C&NW I was once given a personal tour of the mill back in 1984. Saw the whole works from the loading of one of the electric furnaces to the taping of another. When we got to the rolling mill (still using ingots), I got to enter in the pulpit where an operator controlled the rolling of an ingot down to size. The operator even let me take the controls and I recall there being a large like gas pedal (or pedals) to move the rollers (of course there was nothing being passed through at the time). The individual giving me the tour did talk about how the rolling mill had been powered by that giant steam engine. The tour was hot and a bit dirty, but what an terrific experience back then.
I am a 5th generation Puebloan, and I would have been a 4th generation steel worker had I ended up at CF & i. I don't think pueblo has a laziness problem, I think it has an employment problem. When 1 job opens and 500 people apply to fill a handful if not 1 slot, it becomes discouraging. If boomers would retire, and make room for the younger generations then maybe young people would be working more.
Do any of your relatives remember a murder at the mill in 1925? My husband's grandfather worked there and was murdered by a co-worker. We are trying to find how long he was in prison.
Have things improved in the way of hiring at the steel mill in Pueblo since you made this post?
My grandpa used to work at the mill and the mine so many memories he cried when he saw this because he remembered seeing someone being crushed
For a hundred years Pueblo was a hard workin’ town...people of productivity. Nowadays it’s a crime infested welfare town. Many people with no pride at all.
antlers163. I work at the mill now and there are plently of hard working people. Every town has lazy people not willing to work but our town is strong regardless of all the idiots that live here.
I would like to have seen it when there were 10,000 people working at the mill, going 24/7/365 over 3 shifts. A huge percentage of young, able bodied people in this town nowadays are on welfare. It *is* a rough town...lots of crime and lots of drugs. Some great history though; and close proximity to many great things this state has to offer.
@@antlers163 20,000 people at one time.....
Pueblo is a hardworking city and gowning with 5 major core industries. Lately our leaders are goofy and cause us to lose out on large projects that would help us grow more.
If more people in Pueblo would have some pride, get off their butts, get off welfare, and go to work, it’d make Pueblo a better place. Why on earth would anybody think they are entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labor and productivity...? There are a huge number of able-bodied people in Pueblo that are on welfare and parasitically living off of others. Anytime you give something to someone that didn’t work for it, that means you’ve taken it away from someone who did work for it. And ‘that’ is fundamentally wrong. Period. Pueblo is number one in the state for all of the things you don’t wanna be number one in.
how much did CF&I pay in taxes? and why does the focus always center on labor disputes, and not how well the mills paid? or how much steel CF&I created? or how CF&I helped build the west? sadly the CF&I "historians" lack a general knowledge of the steel mill's many contributions to society and they seem obsessed on the labor unions.
What about the souls killed? Don't you have some humanity?
Thank you sir you helped build our country.!
Red Lopez did you know my Grandpa Alex Svedarsky?
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In the early 70s I worked for 6 months in this mill as a motor inspector (maintenance electrician). I enjoyed this video and remember many of the mills I worked in. I was a floater who filled in where and when needed. I just wonder how many young people would work under those conditions. I had a wife and 2 kids to support and I believed in doing what it took to have a stay-at-home mother to the kids. Thank you for the video and will visit the museum if I ever pass that way.