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Keith Busy has had a front row seat to the rise and fall of a great American industry.

That industry?

Steel?

But back in the early 60s he was just out of college and working an

accounting job in northern Indiana. He was far from home, didn't know a lot of

people. On the weekends he'd go for drives.

I used to go up to the sand dunes north of Valparaiso, Indiana.

This beautiful stretch of land along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.

And they were constructing a brand new steel mill at the time

called Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor. Oh, like the big, big old school Bethlehem Steel.

Okay. Yes, that one. Back then, Bethlehem Steel was

huge, the second biggest steel company in the United States. And the site they

were constructing. Dozens of buildings, many stories high.

It had its own train system,

smokestacks reaching up into the sky.

This is what steel mills looked like

for most of the last century.

And I remember sitting on the sand dunes just watching the erection process from the beach

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