Cement City: Just as Good as Ever

Cement City

Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Donora has no banks, no gas stations, no schools. Jeanne Marie and Erin discover the one thing that could bring the town back to life. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the first town ever I think that a McDonald's ever closed up.
0:08.6	We had a McDonald's been there.
0:16.0	Never did you ever a McDonald's pulling out of a town.
0:18.0	The door was the first.
0:20.3	Churches fell apart.
0:30.0	No gas station, no grocery store. No bank. That's it. That's the door. Yeah, town. I can't walk down through town and say a hi to somebody. There's no one there.
0:37.0	There's nobody there.
0:40.0	A good portion of them of either left town or passed away.
0:44.0	Yeah, it's a different world.
0:50.0	And you talk about bringing it back.
0:52.0	If you believe in miracles, and you talk about bringing it back.
0:55.0	If you believe in miracles, I think they had to get a bulldozing just go right through town,
1:00.0	but that would cost a lot of money. I don't know there's nothing. Life goes on.
1:17.0	Who knows what's waiting?
1:21.0	I'm G. Elaskus, and this is Cement City. Chapter 2. Just as good as ever. Christine, that's was the library.
1:35.0	Sure.
1:37.0	That was the library, yeah.
1:39.0	Erin and I are back down on McCain Avenue.
1:41.0	We've been in town a few weeks now. We just moved into our new house and
1:45.0	we're trying to get the lay of the land, figure out the basics, practical stuff. Like, where's
1:49.6	the post office? And is there an ATM? Because there's definitely not a bank and where do you
1:54.4	buy food here anyway? So far we're not having much luck with any of it it's
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