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Kaiser Steel at Fontana
1942
Fontana, California
Los Angeles Daily News · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Henry Kaiser built the West Coast's only integrated steel mill inland, out of range of naval shelling, to feed his shipyards. It employed some 9,000 people, closed in 1983, and its site became a NASCAR speedway, a fair summary of what happened to Californian heavy industry.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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