Downtown Gary: Millrats, Politics & Us Steel

by John C. Trafny and Diane Trafny

Downtown Gary: Millrats, Politics, and US Steel provides a glimpse of the Gary of yesteryear when downtown was the social, cultural, and political center of the community.

Before the era of gigantic shopping malls, big-box stores, and online shopping, the commercial centers of major American cities were located in areas often referred to as downtown. From the 1920s through the 1960s, people from throughout the Calumet Region flocked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467103144
• ISBN13: 9781467103145
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"