#driveithome

SHARED: All day I’ve been watching people post photos of the last Chevy Cruze as it moves down the line at GM Lordstown Complex. Seeing the slow demise of the plant as the car comes together is surreal and lightweight nauseating. Say what you will about the cars they made out there but I beat the entire living holy hell out of my 86 Z-24 and she didn’t die until she got stolen and torched down off Steel Street. #therustjungle #steelvalley #driveithome #gm #generalmotors #chevrolet #marybarra (at General Motors Lordstown Complex) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/BufAtXjBshP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vxp5451ste4q

LAST WEEK: I was lucky enough to be given some really incredible things from my talented friends. Humbled man. Figure 1-2: Was in Columbus for work and met up with my people from @blackbirdenamelusa. They gave me a prototype version of their handmade in USA from American steel camp cup. Instead of being completely enameled, only the handle/inside/lip area are. The rest will slowly oxidize and become one of a kind over time. The only American made steel camp cup, these are great for coffee/chili/and bourbon according to my independent research. Figure 3-4-5: Stopped at the UAW hall in Lordstown on the way to Ytown to pick up some #driveithome signs. They also gave me those, plus a 50th anniversary Lordstown GM poster and a copy of what I hope isn’t the last Local 1112 newsletter. Un-unallocate the plant. Figure 6-7-8: Met up with @richiep_meche when I was in Weirton. He hooked me up with a Mon Valley Photo Works calendar, which is really solid, and a sticker for my lunchbox. Love me a good sticker, and the work he does documenting industry in the Monongahela Valley. Figure 9: I’ve actually had the US Steel Youngstown Works bottle opener plaque for a while but whatever, it’s dope and this is my post. That was from Alex Infante of the No. 14 mill. #therustjungle #steelvalley #monvalley #blackbirdenamel #driveithome #isupportalalli (at Youngstown, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/therustjungle/p/Bu4HEEDnmlh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u7oema77tb5t

Reading the paper at my parents. GM employment in the Youngstown area went from 23,000 some jobs 40 years ago to a full page ad about retraining for laid off workers. The shutdown was national news for what, two days? I don’t think anyone outside of Youngstown or Hantramck or Baltimore really cares. And the people at home just fight in the Facebook comments like some lunatics about who’s fault it is. Democrats or Republicans, the UAW or the company. I feel for everybody effected by the closure, both at GM and the suppliers/related industries. Unallocate Mary Barra. #therustjungle #steelvalley #driveithome #gm #chevrolet #lordstown #savelordstown (at General Motors Lordstown Complex) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrvKHCZHLvu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lpq8lmuo8cdx

Lordstown, O. - April 28, 1966 A 1966 Chevy Impala four door rolls of the assembly line at General Motors Lordstown Assembly. That was the first car, the last will be a Chevy Cruze in 2019 unless GM changes it’s plans. 12,000 people worked here in it’s heyday. The place was a city of it’s own. My friend’s dad worked his whole career out there. He had a coffee hustle, set up multiple Bunn machines near his work station and sold cups of coffee for a quarter or dime I forget. Told me he made enough off the coffee concession to pay for his kids wedding. Or college, I forget. But you get the gist. #driveithome #therustjungle #steelvalley #youngstown #lordstown #gm #generalmotors (at General Motors Lordstown Complex) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsOBKXnBqj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mclglbg7m8ja