Downtown Gary: Millrats, Politics & Us Steel - Trafny, John C.; Trafny, Diane F.
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In blue-collar industrial Gary, Indiana, downtown was the social, cultural, and political center of the community. From the 1920s through the 1960s, people flocked to the stores, theaters and restaurants. The Trafnys provide a glimpse not only of the stores of yesteryear but also the politics, churches, schools, and of course, United States Steel Corporation and the millrats. -- adapted from back cover

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In blue-collar industrial Gary, Indiana, downtown was the social, cultural, and political center of the community. From the 1920s through the 1960s, people flocked to the stores, theaters and restaurants. The Trafnys provide a glimpse not only of the stores of yesteryear but also the politics, churches, schools, and of course, United States Steel Corporation and the millrats. -- adapted from back cover
Autorenporträt
This is the fifth book written by John C. Trafny about Gary, Indiana. John was born and raised in Gary and graduated from Emerson High School in 1968. The former steelworker and US Army veteran is now a lecturer at Purdue University. His sister and coauthor, Diane F. Trafny, was born on Gary's East Side and graduated from Andrean High School and Indiana University. She and her husband, Douglas Greenwood, reside in Griffith, Indiana.