[robowombat]

I watched the ‘Port of Baltimore’ show most Saturdays. It was pretty interesting. I especially liked the theme ‘The Port that built a city, a state and a country’. I also remember taking a tour of Sparrow's Point in 1965. Massive is what I remember. Iron ore from Venezuela arriving by ship, coking coal from Pa by the trainload. Steel assemblies moving directly from the mill to the Beth Steel shipyard next door. Incredible feeling of raw power that would go on forever. Now we have Baltimore city of ferals. G-d, how depressing.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

My father and I would go down to the “harbor” and the Port/Bethlehem steel plants sparrows Point/Curtis Bay areas to watch the ships come in and unload their cargo. In the early 1950’s, the Baltimore Sun had a Sunday magazine section and I still have the one on the Port because I’m sure I write a little story about it in elementary school.

It was a bustling place with hard workers and good jobs. Unfortunately foreign steel came in at very cheap prices and devastated the mills (and some of the steel unions refused, at least elsewhere, to adjust their pay scales to the new reality, thus losing much of the work they had. Trump has helped to rejuvenate the steel industry so I hope that Baltimore got some of the action. They need the jobs.