Andrea Zaya
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20 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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Is this young Charles Schwab?
A very dapper young man born in western Pennsylvania.
And by World War II, Bethlehem became the second largest steel company in the country.
About 180,000 people worked in shipbuilding, so they were also the largest private shipbuilder in the world.
It meant everything to the local economy.
This was a company town.
Pretty much everybody had a connection here.
Things were going pretty well.
You know, everything shut down.
This was a national strike.
And then we start to see foreign imports coming into the market at that time.
there wasn't, you know, certainly an economic downturn.
I have three older brothers and they all decided to leave the area.
They thought that there was not an economic future.
One of them moved to the Detroit area and then he might have questioned that choice because when he came back here, it had just changed so much.
I teach at some of the local colleges here, and I've been assigning an essay assignment.
What is Lehigh Valley culture?
And after 25 years, students are writing that we have a Bethlehem Steel identity.
How is that possible?
You know, even in the shadow, these kids growing up in the shadow of a cold blast furnace, and somehow this is becoming part of who they are.
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