Granite city steel

37chief · Sep 25, 2018

I am installing used corrugated roof tin on an old shed It is from the 50's. I see the tin is made by the Granite City Steel co, Granite city Ill. From the internet it is still in operation. Anyone live in that city, or near it? Stan

RBMI · Sep 25, 2018

They had a product called ?Strongbarn?. Lots of that used around the area where I grew up... east central Kansas. Ron

Greenpully · Sep 25, 2018

Stan,
I am a retired electrician from GCS. It went from GCS to National Steel then to US Steel. They specialize in flat rolled steel now. WE made lots of steel for grain bins and guard rail for highways. Was a good place to earn a living.GP

charlie n · Sep 25, 2018

Company I retired from does the majority of there maintenance and new construction. Spent a lot of long dirty days there.

JimKS · Sep 25, 2018

Before I retired I did service work on some of their rollformers.

Jim

TGP · Sep 25, 2018

I'm 12 miles from there.

Have no connection with it other than hauling rolled steel and flat steel out of there in the early seventies.
Plant just started back up after 2+ year? hiatus.

Trumps trade wars are said to be the reason US Steel relit the plant.
I know it was a big deal around here.
All the phony politicians were in attendance.

Tom

Bob Harvey · Sep 25, 2018

I like that he got laughed at the UN. DB !

BIG RUH · Sep 25, 2018

I use to deliver propane tanks for fork trucks there

hd6gtom · Sep 25, 2018

We sold lots of strong barn while I worked at the lumber yard in the 60's.

37chief · Sep 25, 2018

That is what is printed on my roof sheets. Strong Barn, It's twice as sturdy as home depot sheets. Stan

jon f mn · Sep 26, 2018

He got laughed at by the leaders of a bunch of failing countries begging us for bailouts. I hope he cuts funding even more now.

TGP · Sep 26, 2018

(quoted from post at 08:53:31 09/26/18) He got laughed at by the leaders of a bunch of failing countries begging us for bailouts. I hope he cuts funding even more now.

Ditto Jon!

TGP

rustyfarmall · Sep 26, 2018

(quoted from post at 06:03:55 09/26/18)

(quoted from post at 08:53:31 09/26/18) He got laughed at by the leaders of a bunch of failing countries begging us for bailouts. I hope he cuts funding even more now.

Click to expand...

Ditto Jon!

TGP

Times 2.

denglish · Sep 26, 2018

I grew up near GCS in the 70's by a town named Glen Carbon (horseradish capital of the world and former coal mine). GSC employed a lot of people at good jobs. Lots of my friend's fathers worked there. I used to ride my bicycle into Granite City and go there with my parents. Boy did their plant stink everyday! The air was really bad down there on a windless summer day and the houses along GCS fence line were coated with soot and inhabited by the very poor. It was a pretty nasty place then - but they were rolling full steam day and night it seemed.

There was a tavern not far from my house called Judy Inn that wold be full of those steel workers when they got off work. Kind of a rough place and the local scuttlebutt was that hookers operated on the second floor, which seemed plausible. When I was in high school we'd go in their during the day and play pool and sometimes ask those steel workers to buy us package beer, which they did on a few occasions.

Bob Harvey · Sep 27, 2018

Maybe you should actually read what is going on on the planet, rather accepting the BS repetitively put out by a barely educated moron. You are being duped by repetitive crap.

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