The National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum in Chester County, PA preserves and exhibits our national history of steelmaking, Rebecca Lukens and other heroes of our industrial heritage.Visit us at steelmuseum.org/
Sad American struggle with rent higher prices than ever before and the ppl runing it is sold us out but back in the day and like the video said it was made by us for us just sad great video you can't bet how happy you guys look remembering the good times
I started at Lukens in 1988 after closing my electronic repair business in Pittsburgh. Lukens enabled me to pay off my debts and restart my life. So many good people work there. If you want an incubator for diversity, this was it. 32 years there set me up for a decent retirement.
So many steel collumns from the original world trade center laying around everywhere in this video. Tridents, core collums, perimeter steel. What will happen to this steel?
My dad Donald Johnson and Grandfather James Nowlin both was employed at Lukens Steel. I remember the smell when they got off work. I remember the long thermost plaided green and black and filled with coffee. Both welders. I remember my dad's breakfast before I went to school. He was the only one who drank Old Crow Whisky in Coatesville besides Mr.Winky. Christmas was always beautiful even though one year I got 2/ Three litter sodas and fresh overalls jeans from JC Penny for Christmas. And 2 bags of BBQ (Herrs) potato chips. I miss my pop pop and Dad. The BBQs 😢
The sun workers were also the first to eat HOAGIES. They were made in a deli (DiCostanzo's?) close to the shipyard. Hoagie came from "Hog" Island which is right off the frontage of the shipyard.
My dad has worked at Lukens now Cliffs Steel for 35 years. It’s amazing to see how these workers helped pave the way for future generations that work there.
Rest in peace my dear friend, for telling our stories and being a good friend and supporter. I will miss you very much. You were a kind, talented, and wonderful storyteller and friend. Sympathies to Ron and your children. You touched hearts and soul and was a great interpreter of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry too! Sisterly love, always Oni
My grandpa worked there for 25 years ending in about 1964. My dad's family lived on Harmony ST and my mom's on Oak St. Some of my earliest memories include Lukens going all night and LONG trains coming over the bridge. You could see and hear a lot from Oak ST which is on a hill. Both parents went to Coatesville High with the well known true crime writer Ann Rule in early 1940s.
Nobody really knows the history of the uniforms that exist,most people just wore them out or threw them away, if i would have been smarter in the 80s i wouldn't have died one of my old uncles uniforms black with studs being a metal head, and losing all the metals Canadian German all gone now 😒
We donated to a local some of my wife's grandfather's items who served in the German Wehrmacht during WWII. Most of the items were stolen by a person or people who worked there. Never again.
Not all uniforms are identified, in fact most are not because the grand kids or great gran kids sold them and didn't pass the identification with them. We need to preserve all of these uniforms whether they are identified or not.
My father, LB Rowden (that was his legal name), was in the Merchant Marine during WWII. Not sure what ships he was on, but he made the Murmansk run twice, to UK once, then two trips across the Pacific. His two cousins were in the Coast Guard. One of them was assigned to an LST, specializing in maintaining and repairing Gray Marin diesel engines, which were in the LCVPs. He was at Guadalcanal and several other Wesstern Pacific assault landings.
Very informative. Mrs. Mary S. Matteson was my great grandmother. I spent every summer from the age of 6 till 17 at Hibernia. My family lived in Florida so going to Pennsylvania in the summer time was wonderful. Mrs. Peggy Williams was my mother who passed away in October 2007. Thank you also to the Friends of Hibernia for taking such great care of the mansion. Mrs. Matteson would be thrilled to see how the park is being used today and how thousands of people each year are enjoying a place she loved. Sincerely, Carol D. Stilen Richmond, TX.
PLUTO - Petroleum Line Under The Ocean. An under water pipeline laid across the English Channel to pump gasoline from England to France. I believe it was an idea from Churchill.
My Late Grandfather worked at Lucan steel company as a supervisor and retired in the early 1970s! When my Late Grandfather was retired from Lucan steel company, every Christmas he and other workers would put on a Christmas party for children and my Late Grandfather would always bring home one of the yummy lollipops 🍭 that had a delicious and unique cherry flavor as well as a small toy from the event for my brother and I!😃😊!! My Mom was born and raised in the Coatesville area, but my Mom married my Dad and moved out of the area. Thanks for sharing the very fun, interesting, and informative stories of all the workers from Lukens Steel company😊😃!
The big trick with 'uniform collecting' is this: **You don't get wear it casually on the street** I'm an American combat veteran, a lifelong military historian, and a US Civil War reenactor. All of my reenacting gear are reproductions. I have some artifacts for table display when I'm teaching, but they are solely for display. This is a key feature in my 'ethics of ownership and reenacting' philosophy. - When you collect the uniform of someone, you take into your care a certain part of their legacy. YOU did NOT earn those colored bits of cloth and metal adorning the uniform. YOU did NOT perform the actions that entitled the owner to them. YOU did NOT put the sweat and dirt and [sometimes] blood into those items. You are a caretaker, not an owner. - Your own uniform [if any] bears the insignia you're entitled to. And that's ALL that you're entitled to, nothing else and nothing more. If you 'respect the sacrifice' that these people made by their service, then you will care for these uniforms while they're in your care and donate them to a museum or back to the family [if possible] when your time with them are done. Ask any reenactor or collector and they know 'that guy' who likes to walk around wearing bits of uniforms he barely fits into, in ensembles that don't match [I once saw a girl wearing an authentic Panzerjacke with tights and stripper boots -- yeah, she got a talking to], and acting for all the world like he was in uniform. You know the guy I'm talking about... the kind of guy who buys a riding crop so he can return salutes with it at gun or memorabilia shows...
I wish more reenactors were like you. Many I've heard like to use the real weapons and other items. There is no need for that as repros of everything can be bought now a days.
@@jimrutherford2773 One reason why I don't buy 'authentic' items is the because of the quality of the fakes out there. As a buddy of mine put it, "There are more 'authentic' Iron Crosses on the market now than were ever awarded by 3 Reichs and two Republics!" If I spend [x] dollars on a reproduction, I know precisely what I'm getting at a price of willing to pay for it. But if I dropped $100K for 'Hindenberg's personal Pickelhaube' and found out it was made of Mexican saddle leather, I can assure you that I would lose my mind and probably burn the thief's house down. And they got laws about people doing stuff like that 😁
My Dad, Frank Seik (dec'd) was educated at Sun Ship to be a welder in 1941. Worked there until laid off in 1945 or 46. I worked in Ship Repair during the 60s as Mr. Brodhead's secretary. Enjoyed my few years at Sun Ship. Thoroughly enjoyed viewing the whole story of Sun Ship. Thank you for making this video and sharing the story.
