The Greek’s

Steelworkers fondly remembered how, each dawn, The Greek shuttled his day-old unsliced Italian loaves, the not-quite-fresh apple and peach pies, the fat bologna tubes and the 30 dozen doughnuts through the locomotive smoke and blast furnace stink.

Steel Genesis shares powerful stories and rare images from Pittsburgh’s historic J&L Steel mill, where iron was forged and lives were shaped. Through personal reflections and visual archives, the site explores human mettle, industrial heritage, and the rebirth of a vanished world.