Immigrant Forefathers: People and Steel

immigrant forefathers: Kids used to get nice toys when their dads worked in the steel mill, the mayor recalls, according to Brandon Sun. His dad worked there. It sounds like a yearning for Christmas past. So did the immigrant forefathers of famous residents of Aliquippa, Pa.: composer Henry Mancini, and sports legends Mike Ditka and Pete Maravich. Your friends had things too. ... People were everywhere . ... When that mill picked up and left it took everything with it. ..."I know what it like to have loved and lost."His town lost its steel industry, its spinoff businesses, schools and people. People arrived from everywhere to work the raw material of American might — the steel in skyscrapers that sprouted above cities, automobiles that rolled down new highways and weapons that won two world wars."I know what Christmases looked like," said Dwan B. Walker, mayor of the western Pennsylvania town. "You were wearing nice clothes. the toys you wanted. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.