Very very cool! I went in there during the day way back before the casino got built (2006 maybe?). Amazing place! I never would have the balls to try nowadays though especially at night! I love the dramatic style of your video though along with quotes by workers. Excellent work!
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Your courageous and hard core. I could feel the cold and sadness of a giant who has been dead for years. It would be a great thing for us to make steel again. They sold the soul out of our country. At the end, when your light failed, I could hear my heart beating. Scared for you. You made me feel the cold and depth of your frightening situation. Awesome video.
The same thing happened in my country.I worked at Australian Iron & Steel from 1958-1970 in open hearth furnace's and 5 blast furnaces now the plant is all but closed and so are the coal mines.
You are correct, it really was your second family. I spend 3 decades there and learned a lot. Barry G. Kery, "The Cadillac" ........Worked in the Gray Mills.
Phil DiPietro at 3:35, was my cousin. He is from Freemansburg and was a union representative at the steel. The steel was a real force of nature, romantic now, but not a nice place to work, especially the coke works and foundry. My grandfather did 40 years in ingot mold, my father 40 as a craneman in the soaking pits, his brother too. All steel workers are heros. 12 hours a day, 6 days a week during the war. The number 1 machine shop was the largest in the world, number two was second largest. They won WW1 and 2. May God bless them each time we think of them.
+Why Pluto, What do you mean, "Most of you people here don't remember..." I'm 62 and grew up in Bethlehem! I remember when the blast furnaces were going full bore. Yes, our government is partially to blame but I can tell you there was lot of waste in the executive levels of "the Steel". They thought they were on a perpetual gravy train.
The rule of thumb in any industry is that you have to continue to innovate in order to remain competitive. The level of innovation in the US steel industry was insufficient. Old plants were used to produce steel in ways that did not change much over generations. India, Japan, and South Korea has the advantage of having new plants built. The newer plants had more efficient production processes that led to lower costs. The US steel industry was like a typewriter trying to compete in an era of desktop computing. You can create documents using a typewriter but a desktop is infinitely more efficient.
I'm 53 and I spent the first half of my childhood in Bethlehem, moving away in 1978. I remember the steel plant well, it always fascinated me. I used to flatten pennies and nickels on the rail lines and occasionally and without my parent's knowledge, ride my bike right outside the plant. Of course many of my neighbors either worked at the plant or had retired from the plant. I was trying to reconcile some of the pictures in this video and it is clear they are not all from the Bethlehem plant.
very cool but the pics are of multiple plants, the first are in PA but the overhead shots by the water are here in Baltimore Md which is where all the ships were built and the steel for most bridges came from
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Cold Turkey you know. I realized something. They have to do something with the furnaces, or else they'll just fall apart and collapse. Eventually, stuff is gonna start falling off of them making them a hazard,once that happens, don't know what they'll do.
This is one of the best urbex videos I've seen. So much imaginative editing and suspense. Very dangerous however, and I hope you are not going back. Hard to believe you recorded with a cell phone. And NOT having multiple light sources? Really? Did you make it out?
Yes I did make it out and came back 2 more times at night in the following years (spring and summer). Meanwhile they redesigned the space in front of the factory and so now it really looks like a touristic objective. I used just the light of a iPhone 5S while recording. Later on in life I might write a book inspired by the factory and come with a much better video. Thank you for the appreciation! Please check my new CZcams account, “Light Streams” youtube.com/@LightStreams_
I love this in it's entirety but why when people explore these places do they not wear protective gloves and gear like that's still rust and there is clearly still steel dust lingering about.
Was raised in that town, right next to the Plant. We had a reddish dust on our windshields in the morning. When I return to Bethlehem, it looks cleaner.
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I live in Bethlehem today was born here. I feel home here. I love to find out more about it's history. I appreciate videos like these people being respectful of the areas they're exploring. The last video I saw started out fine but a the group ended up destroying some things for no good reason.
i WAS DRIVING BY THERE THEN I SAW WHAT LOOK LIKE A FIGURE OF A MAN EXCEPT HE LOOK LIKE HE WAS ALL FIRE AND WOULD BLINK ON AND OFF ERRATICALLY. AND AS MY CAR GOT NEARER I OPENED MY WINDOW AND COULD HEAR A SIMULAR SOUND OF A JET ENGINE ON AND OFF WITH THE VISION. lATER i ASKED SOME ONE ABOUT THIS SIGHTING AND WAS TOLD i SAW COLDRIN MAN ,A GUY WHO FELL IN A GIANT POT OF MOLTEN IRON.
A "chicken/egg" question----at 2:12 in the video 2 men are working at what I take to be an enormous lathe--they are turning an immense precision shaft--the far end of the lathe is "the business end"--the motor/flywheel/mount for the raw item to be machined--the bed of the lathe is comprised of huge precision milled blocks that guide the tool mounts that actually mill the raw stock---my question---what huge machines produced this huge machine--all these parts had to be precision milled to produce precision milling-----my head hurts---(:-)
This is definitely not the best video I've seen of this amazing place. I love that abandoned steelmill. Lighting is terrible, and I recommend utilizing-your next video-the works of either Robert Rich, or, Steve Roach.
What happened to Bethlehem, and several other mills, should have never happened. We can thank globalism, controlled by the banks, oil interests, and foreign actors, along with the US politicians who would rather bail out the banks, because they were also controlled by the same entities, for what happened here. Both political parties were involved in this, and many of those politicians gained great wealth for allowing it to happen.
The American steel industry was the epitome of a strange contradiction. In the US, the steel industry had a huge amount of capacity but the capacity was old. Countries like India, Japan, and South Korea had newer mills that could produce more steel than older US mills. They also had lower labor costs. The US steel industry could not compete and the radical makeover that was needed never happened.
@@KSmall109CAB What the industrialists did, in collusion with Nixon, Congress, Kissinger, and Rockefeller, was to create the EPA, (while courting Mao), which gave them the excuse to cite extreme regulatory costs to comply. The same stockholders invested in offshore Asian mills, quit investing in US mills, and allowed several steel mills to collapse. It was all over more profits, and essentially, slave labor in Asia, where labor unions, laws, and regulations didn't exist. . The EPA became very strict about where blast furnaces could be built, or even rebuilt. The same went for the coke plants, and coal. Wall Street mattered more than public employment. . I've always said that slavery never ended, or at least for long. They merely exported the new plantation to Asia, and called it something else.
@@craxd1 By the time Richard Nixon met with Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman Mao had about as much clout as Willie Mays had with the 1973 New York Mets. Mao was a shadow of himself. Nixon was in his prime. A lot went wrong with the American steel industry. However, it is hard to find evidence that the Nixon administration and Congress conspired with industrialists to sack it. Regulations didn't doom it either. Like oil production, steel manufacturing was a dirty process. Do you really want to have a job that gives you and your children lung cancer?
I worked in management for companies that had union labor for years and watched how union labor bosses, stewards, etc manipulated their contracts and starved companies of money. Management had their fair share of the blame, too, many decisions made were spiteful to the union rather than being in the interest of the overall company. But when you watched the manipulation happening- and I saw a LOT of it - was easy to see how unions were just as responsible for the exit of industry and good jobs in America. They always blamed management for being solely responsible for the mis- management, contract negotiations, etc. But, to say unions were just there to “support the working man”, don’t you believe that for a second. Most people in unions took advantage just like management did. The people reading this who were involved in these companies during that time might write back and try to beat up what I’m writing. They might try to say what I’m saying here is wrong because of this, that, etc. But, in the back of their heads, the people who worked in unions know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Unions were greedy and lazy just like management, helped run these industries into the ground and spoiled a good thing.
This video is So Poorly done... You can barely see anything in the Video since they are barely even using any type of light at all while taking the video.. what a shame. I hope someone else makes a video of this place...
Very very cool! I went in there during the day way back before the casino got built (2006 maybe?). Amazing place! I never would have the balls to try nowadays though especially at night! I love the dramatic style of your video though along with quotes by workers. Excellent work!
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Your courageous and hard core.
I could feel the cold and sadness of a giant who has been dead for years. It would be a great thing for us to make steel again.
They sold the soul out of our country. At the end, when your light failed, I could hear my heart beating.
Scared for you. You made me feel the cold and depth of your frightening situation. Awesome video.
The same thing happened in my country.I worked at Australian Iron & Steel from 1958-1970 in open hearth furnace's and 5 blast furnaces now the plant is all but closed and so are the coal mines.
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You are correct, it really was your second family. I spend 3 decades there and learned a lot.
Barry G. Kery, "The Cadillac" ........Worked in the Gray Mills.
Phil DiPietro at 3:35, was my cousin. He is from Freemansburg and was a union representative at the steel. The steel was a real force of nature, romantic now, but not a nice place to work, especially the coke works and foundry. My grandfather did 40 years in ingot mold, my father 40 as a craneman in the soaking pits, his brother too. All steel workers are heros. 12 hours a day, 6 days a week during the war. The number 1 machine shop was the largest in the world, number two was second largest. They won WW1 and 2. May God bless them each time we think of them.
+Why Pluto, What do you mean, "Most of you people here don't remember..." I'm 62 and grew up in Bethlehem! I remember when the blast furnaces were going full bore. Yes, our government is partially to blame but I can tell you there was lot of waste in the executive levels of "the Steel". They thought they were on a perpetual gravy train.
The rule of thumb in any industry is that you have to continue to innovate in order to remain competitive. The level of innovation in the US steel industry was insufficient. Old plants were used to produce steel in ways that did not change much over generations.
India, Japan, and South Korea has the advantage of having new plants built. The newer plants had more efficient production processes that led to lower costs.
The US steel industry was like a typewriter trying to compete in an era of desktop computing. You can create documents using a typewriter but a desktop is infinitely more efficient.
I'm 53 and I spent the first half of my childhood in Bethlehem, moving away in 1978. I remember the steel plant well, it always fascinated me. I used to flatten pennies and nickels on the rail lines and occasionally and without my parent's knowledge, ride my bike right outside the plant. Of course many of my neighbors either worked at the plant or had retired from the plant. I was trying to reconcile some of the pictures in this video and it is clear they are not all from the Bethlehem plant.
very cool but the pics are of multiple plants, the first are in PA but the overhead shots by the water are here in Baltimore Md which is where all the ships were built and the steel for most bridges came from
Awesome video second time I’ve seen it. But you were alone, that’s crazy hard core.
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youtube.com/@LightStreams_
like they saved the old trains they should have saved that relic I should think.
nice shots, relic of the great Steel/Iron Age.
wow this video really had me on edge!
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Cool video! Music and image go together very well!
Pretty interesting, well edited.
love this vid. I live just up the street from it.
Xinless Vice same haha
Cold Turkey you know. I realized something. They have to do something with the furnaces, or else they'll just fall apart and collapse. Eventually, stuff is gonna start falling off of them making them a hazard,once that happens, don't know what they'll do.
Great research.
Little twisted at the end..
great video
So who manufactured the iron for the 1st plants?just curios
built the nation. won the war.
a masterpiece!!!!
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SO SAD THAT COMPANY WENT UNDER MAYBE CUZ THE THE BIG WIGS POCKETED TOO MUCH
This is one of the best urbex videos I've seen. So much imaginative editing and suspense. Very dangerous however, and I hope you are not going back. Hard to believe you recorded with a cell phone. And NOT having multiple light sources? Really? Did you make it out?
Yes I did make it out and came back 2 more times at night in the following years (spring and summer). Meanwhile they redesigned the space in front of the factory and so now it really looks like a touristic objective. I used just the light of a iPhone 5S while recording. Later on in life I might write a book inspired by the factory and come with a much better video. Thank you for the appreciation! Please check my new CZcams account, “Light Streams”
youtube.com/@LightStreams_
I used to work at Mack 5C Chassis 84/5'. The demise of a former great town.
Building Mack trucks?
My school in near it. For some reason there is a casino and PBS TV station there too
grubbylyra Bethlehem reduced to a casino. So Channel 39 is off the top of South Mtn now?
I love this in it's entirety but why when people explore these places do they not wear protective gloves and gear like that's still rust and there is clearly still steel dust lingering about.
Was raised in that town, right next to the Plant. We had a reddish dust on our windshields in the morning. When I return to Bethlehem, it looks cleaner.
Thank you very much, yes you are right - safety first.:)
If you have time available, please check my new CZcams account, “Light Streams”
youtube.com/@LightStreams_
I live in Bethlehem today was born here. I feel home here. I love to find out more about it's history. I appreciate videos like these people being respectful of the areas they're exploring. The last video I saw started out fine but a the group ended up destroying some things for no good reason.
Iron American Dream on CZcams. Share it. Take a ride across the promised land. Step up to the anvil and test your metal.
I need to fly my drone here.
Heard its behind demo'd now,not sure
I pulled steel out of here for abt 2 years,trucker
i WAS DRIVING BY THERE THEN I SAW WHAT LOOK LIKE A FIGURE OF A MAN EXCEPT HE LOOK LIKE HE WAS ALL FIRE AND WOULD BLINK ON AND OFF ERRATICALLY. AND AS MY CAR GOT NEARER I OPENED MY WINDOW AND COULD HEAR A SIMULAR SOUND OF A JET ENGINE ON AND OFF WITH THE VISION. lATER i ASKED SOME ONE ABOUT THIS SIGHTING AND WAS TOLD i SAW COLDRIN MAN ,A GUY WHO FELL IN A GIANT POT OF MOLTEN IRON.
Much better if it was a voice over. Trying to read and look at pictures flashing by.....
A "chicken/egg" question----at 2:12 in the video 2 men are working at what I take to be an enormous lathe--they are turning an immense precision shaft--the far end of the lathe is "the business end"--the motor/flywheel/mount for the raw item to be machined--the bed of the lathe is comprised of huge precision milled blocks that guide the tool mounts that actually mill the raw stock---my question---what huge machines produced this huge machine--all these parts had to be precision milled to produce precision milling-----my head hurts---(:-)
Might be why theres so many cousin Miller's out there cant swing a broom sometimes lol
C'est Uckange ça
Thay don't talk about all the people that they robed
This is definitely not the best video I've seen of this amazing place. I love that abandoned steelmill. Lighting is terrible, and I recommend utilizing-your next video-the works of either Robert Rich, or, Steve Roach.
Stfu, lets see your video you wouldn't have the balls to explore this place like he did!!!
My stainless steel coffee pot was made in China.
What happened to Bethlehem, and several other mills, should have never happened. We can thank globalism, controlled by the banks, oil interests, and foreign actors, along with the US politicians who would rather bail out the banks, because they were also controlled by the same entities, for what happened here. Both political parties were involved in this, and many of those politicians gained great wealth for allowing it to happen.
The American steel industry was the epitome of a strange contradiction. In the US, the steel industry had a huge amount of capacity but the capacity was old.
Countries like India, Japan, and South Korea had newer mills that could produce more steel than older US mills. They also had lower labor costs. The US steel industry could not compete and the radical makeover that was needed never happened.
@@KSmall109CAB What the industrialists did, in collusion with Nixon, Congress, Kissinger, and Rockefeller, was to create the EPA, (while courting Mao), which gave them the excuse to cite extreme regulatory costs to comply. The same stockholders invested in offshore Asian mills, quit investing in US mills, and allowed several steel mills to collapse. It was all over more profits, and essentially, slave labor in Asia, where labor unions, laws, and regulations didn't exist.
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The EPA became very strict about where blast furnaces could be built, or even rebuilt. The same went for the coke plants, and coal. Wall Street mattered more than public employment.
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I've always said that slavery never ended, or at least for long. They merely exported the new plantation to Asia, and called it something else.
@@craxd1 By the time Richard Nixon met with Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman Mao had about as much clout as Willie Mays had with the 1973 New York Mets. Mao was a shadow of himself. Nixon was in his prime.
A lot went wrong with the American steel industry. However, it is hard to find evidence that the Nixon administration and Congress conspired with industrialists to sack it. Regulations didn't doom it either.
Like oil production, steel manufacturing was a dirty process. Do you really want to have a job that gives you and your children lung cancer?
You forgot that the americans were paid 2x as workers overseas in the end for their work producing steel.
@@Ofna211 yes middle class wages.
I worked in management for companies that had union labor for years and watched how union labor bosses, stewards, etc manipulated their contracts and starved companies of money.
Management had their fair share of the blame, too, many decisions made were spiteful to the union rather than being in the interest of the overall company.
But when you watched the manipulation happening- and I saw a LOT of it - was easy to see how unions were just as responsible for the exit of industry and good jobs in America. They always blamed management for being solely responsible for the mis- management, contract negotiations, etc.
But, to say unions were just there to “support the working man”, don’t you believe that for a second.
Most people in unions took advantage just like management did.
The people reading this who were involved in these companies during that time might write back and try to beat up what I’m writing. They might try to say what I’m saying here is wrong because of this, that, etc.
But, in the back of their heads, the people who worked in unions know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Unions were greedy and lazy just like management, helped run these industries into the ground and spoiled a good thing.
No Joke no.Jobs.here
I didn't down vote it but you really should have lit it better.
This video is So Poorly done... You can barely see anything in the Video since they are barely even using any type of light at all while taking the video.. what a shame. I hope someone else makes a video of this place...
Too fast on the pictures while trying to read your narrative…hard to take in pics….
They. Would hier. 100 men. Maybe. 10 would stay
Other than the visual part , this video is pointless words are obscure by the changing scenes,.and change a little to quickly.
Pictures go to fast & your sentences go to fast otherwise it would have been great.
This video was like trying to watch a 70’s sci-fi. It sucked!! Thumbs down.