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Another industrial development on Whiskey Island is the entrance to the salt mine under Lake Erie.
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Bridge over the Cuyahoga River - Cleveland, OH
1943 photograph of Hulett ore unloaders in Cleveland transferring iron ore from a Lake Erie freighter to Pennsylvania Railroad rail cars. A campaign to preserve these giant machines
in Cleveland failed when the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority removed them in 2000. (I would like to commend the Ohio Preservation Alliance for trying.) Though they did place one or two of the nearby on the ground with the goal
of one day restoring one of them. Allegedly two of them are still at work unloading coal near Gary, Indiana. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection)
Here is the taconite stockpiles at Cleveland's Whiskey Island as it looks today.
The Corrigan, Mckinney Steel Co. blast furnaces and ore bridge, Cleveland, 1947. This integrated steel works was enlarged and updated as it changed hands to Republic Steel Co., which was merged into LTV Steel, which was absorbed into I.S.G., until that company was taken over by Mittal Steel Co., the current owner of the facility. (Public domain photo courtesy Berni Rich, Historical American Engineering Record).
Bird's eye view of Arcelor-Mittal Steel's integrated steel mill in Cleveland. At times the facility has been operated by J&L, Republic, LTV, and ISG. According to Arcelor-Mittal this is
the most productive steel mill in the world!
One of the two blast furnaces at Arcelor-Mittal's steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. At the time this photo was taken in February 2009 the USA was in an economic depression, and activity at the furnaces was minimal. The
ore bridge is to the right of the furnace.
CSX rail yard next to Arcelor-Mittal's Cleveland steel mill.
Detail of the infrastructure of the Arcelor-Mittal mill along Independence Road in Cleveland.
The neighborhood around the steel mill in Cleveland.
Saint Andrew Kim Korean Catholic Church in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, OH.
Counterweight on one of Cleveland's many drawbridges.
The Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland was infamous for actually catching on fire in 1969, but there were no flames the day I snapped this photo 40 years later.
View of Cleveland from the Denison Avenue bridge.
Saint Theodosius Orthodox Church in Cleveland.
Another one of Cleveland's drawbridges and lift bridges is the West Third Street Bridge.
Detail of the West Third Street Bridge.
You are looking out over the west side of Cleveland
S.S. Peter and Paul the Apostles Ukranian Catholic Church in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland.
Independence Road in Cleveland.
General Motors built their Parma Metal Center plant in Parma, OH in 1948. 60 years later it is still in operation, yet the parking lots were nearly empty. UAW Local 1250 represented
the workers at the Ohio plant, but I doubt the UAW will get to represent the workers in Mexico.
Retiree Benefits - I didn't know there were any left, because the U.A.W. has made so many concessions and "givebacks".
Sunrise over Parma, Ohio.
Ford Motor Company's Cleveland Casting Plant in Brook Park, Cuyahoga County, Ohio was constructed in 1952 and closed in 2010. Ford will move the casting of the blocks to Mexico.
Overall view of the Ford Cleveland Casting Plant. This foundry has produced engine blocks, bearing main caps, and crankshafts.
This is the "hot end" of the mill in Lorain, OH. The two blast furnaces were not in operation on the day this picture was taken, and the mill was being idled at this time
due to the economic recession. US Steel has
traditionally seamless pipe, bar and rod here. For a time USS was in partnership with the Japanese Kobe Steel at this mill, now named Lorain Tubular.
The Lake Terminal railroad is the "switcher" railroad at the Lorain mills of US Steel (Lorain Tubular) and Republic
Engineered Products' hot rolled bar plant, shown in the background.
Ford Motor Company's Ohio Assembly factory, in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, was orignally built in 1946 by the Fruehauf Company. In the 1970s Ford began production at the plant, and Ford Econoline
vans are still manufactured there. The workers are represented by UAW Local 2000.
A neighborhood tavern next to the coal fired Avon Lake Power Plant.