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Bethlehem Steel Mill: Employee Welfare
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Employee Welfare Building
The Employee Welfare Building was where the lockers, changerooms and showers were housed for the workers. Only while leaving the site did I realize there where a number of these buildings scattered around the property. This was the only one I ended up photographing.
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Rich McCarthy (Nov 03 2005, 7:55 am)
I worked at the 40/30/21" rolling mill from 2/63-11/66. At the time, 23,000 men covering 3 shifts came in and out of the 6 gates (I used 3 Gate and would have to litterly show you first hand where it was as everything changed so much after the plant closed) Each mill had it's own welfare building, often two if the mill was longer. The 40/30/21 had one up near the heating pits at the north end and another at the south end (which the crew fron the scarfing yard next door also used)near the 21" bed. Cecils ran the resturants then..interspaced thruout the plant and the newbees were the ones who had to take (sometimes 50+) the crews orders and $$ and make sure they got all the orders right..you could kill 90 min standing in line if you hit it at the wrong time:o) In 1987 I went back into the plant with Power Electric and ironiclly wound up in the same mill I'd worked in 20 years earlier..I believe I still have some of the last rolling orders and crew sheets which were still stuffed in desk drawers. I'm 62 now.. Had I to do it all over....there is no place I would have rather spent my youth..That plant was like florida sand..once in your shoes it was there for life.