Inside Business, September 1st, 2001
Times were good in the Steel Valley during the 1960s. Trumbull, Columbiana and Mahoning counties made up one of the top steel-producing regions in the country. Jobs were plentiful at the mills in Youngstown, Warren and Struthers.
"When I was a kid, there was no worry about getting a job," recalls Ralph Zerbonia, 49, a Youngstown native and general manager of cboss Internet in Boardman. "If you did nothing else, you worked at the mills."
But by the mid-1970s, the Valley's atmosphere changed drastically. Cheaper foreign steel cut into domestic demand, production slowed and many mills closed ...
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