In 1930, #Springfield #Illinois was home to the biggest flour factory in North America, but as part of the rusting of the #RustBelt, that industry left, leaving us to clean up the mess. After decades of community effort, the Pillsbury plant is finally coming down, and a new dawn is rising over the city's north side, with opportunity for community revitalization to follow.

Johnstown doesn’t have “a style.”
It has layers.
Floods. Steel. Booms. Busts. Rebuilding.

This stone porch house is what survives all of that.

Architecture as memory.
#Johnstown #RustBelt #BuiltToLast

A Stone Porch Victorian Transitional https://blueribbonteam.com/blog/2026/02/05/a-stone-porch-victorian-transitional/

Today in Labor History January 20, 1986: Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown" topped the music charts on this date. The song, a eulogy for dying industrial cities, includes the lines: "Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores / Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more / They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks / Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown / Your hometown / Your hometown / Your hometown . . ."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gKSp8WoRg

#workingclass #LaborHistory #MyHomeTown #brucespringsteen #unemployment #outsourcing #RustBelt

Just #michigan #rustbelt things
#carsofmastodon

Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/democrats-rust-belt-economy

#politics #democrats #uspol #rustbelt #usa #opinion

Attracted by Name

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. People are attracted to professions by their own name. That’s why there are a disproportionate amount of dentists named Dennis, lawyers named Lawrence and judges named Judy.

But I believe it goes even further than this. Your own name attracts you to other things, not just professions,

My favourite author is Larry Niven. His science fiction is riddled with many interesting and mind bending ideas for the future. Heretofore, I believed my liking his stories was an unbiased thing, based totally on merit. Now, I see that I am just a ball of conceit, picking someone with my own name to be my favourite writer.

Anyone who knows me well, knows that my favourite musical artist is Yes. Of course I love the song Roundabout which is their biggest song. But the second song I liked by them was Starship Trooper. Starship Trooper is divided into three sections. i) Lifeseeker, ii) Disillusion and iii) Wurm. Notice that Wurm is spelled like the last half of my surname. I guess I’m still a ball of conceit.

I could have picked Larry Gowan as my favourite musical act. But he only had 3 or 4 songs that were played regularly on the radio. However, when I first got into residence back in the late eighties, someone said I looked like Gowan. Then they asked me my name and I of course said Larry. So I got the nick name of Gowan.

Later, for one of those 3 or 4 songs on the radio, he teamed up with Jon Anderson of Yes for the song Moonlight Desires. So even here, we’re back to Yes.

Now I’m just wondering how I can get the Russ part of my last name involved. But I don’t know any celebrities named Russ.

Maybe I can say that the show Friends is my favourite sitcom because it features a character named Ross. But really its only about my 5th favourite sitcom.

Maybe I can say that my favourite place to live is the Rustbelt. Kitchener, Hamilton and Toronto used to be the three corners of the Golden Triangle which was where half the manufacturing in Canada was done. Yes it rusted for a few years but Toronto survived by being the centre of Canada and surpassed Montreal for being the largest city in Canada. Kitchener used its technology assets to become viable again. I’m not sure of the situation in Hamilton, but I don’t really think Ontario considers itself to be a Rustbelt area anymore.

Maybe I’m being persnickety by not accepting the spellings of Rust and Ross as an adequate substitute for Russ.

Maybe I’ll find a Russ someday and become that perfect ball of conceit that, it seems, I always wanted to become.

#ballOfConceit #Canada #dentistNamedDennis #Friends #GoldenTriangle #Hamilton #JonAnderson #judgeNamedJudy #Kitchener #LarryGowan #LarryNiven #lawyerNamedLawrence #mindBendingIdeas #Montreal #MoonlightDesires #myFavouriteMusicalArtist #myFavouriteWriter #Ross #RustBelt #StarshipTrooper #Toronto #Wurm #Yes

@AbandonedAmerica #OnshoringFantasies #RustBelt

🇺🇸 :youtube: **Can Trump revive Rust Belt manufacturing?**

"_How will President Donald Trump's dream of bringing back blue collar jobs meet the reality of modern manufacturing?_"

#Video length: thirty-five minutes and four seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn2b14eO1jk.

#Trump #Manufacturing #Industry #Tariffs #Trade #Rustbelt #Inflation #TradeWar #Economy #Economics #US #USA #UnitedStates @economics

#SiliconValley will be the #Rustbelt of the future once #quantumComputing is reality.

#RustBelt #Voters Are Sick of Both #Parties

#Polling shows #Americans are ready to support #independent #populists running on #economic platforms. But what they don’t want is anything associated with the #DemocraticParty’s brand.

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/rust-belt-voters-independent-party

https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/06/10/warn-act-2100-workers-laid-off-at-14-illinois-businesses-in-june-july/84075798007/

14 Illinois businesses to lay off nearly 2,100 workers in the coming weeks. See the list

#us #economy #risk #recession #trade #trump #tariffs #consumer #retail #manufacturing #terminations #jobs #layoffs #decline #sentiment #policies #taxes #spending #cuts #economics #meat #packing #healthcare #logistics #education #employment #unemployment #usa #layoff #Illinois #IL #midwest #rustbelt #labor #labour

Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago. #jobs #factories #RustBelt
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0603/trump-manufacturing-jobs-rust-belt-south

Donald Trump was elected partly on the promise of a factory renaissance. Made-in-America may come back, but not necessarily in the places that led U.S. manufacturing 80 years ago. #jobs #factories #RustBelt

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0603/trump-manufacturing-jobs-rust-belt-south?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor

Andrerseits verscheißt sich's halt #tRump im #Rustbelt der #USA mit seinen Wählern. Oder habt ihr deswegen Jens Spahn zur Republican convention in the US election 2024 geschickt?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2lrdv6x4jejmm4sisg4zti4a/post/3lqnvypra3s22

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#Cleveland #OhioArtist #Stickers #MastoArt #RustBelt #RockHall #BurningRiver #Redbubble #RetroDesign

David Thomas (1953-2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax63ullPE

#OneDeadInOhio #PereUbu #PunkMusic #TheModernDance #Nananananana #Cleveland #RustBelt