Youngstown, Ohio.
I'm really not sure how this whole story got started, but that's OK because that's how the best stories usually start! I think a friend of mine, Phil, found a pic. This all started with a single pic. Something about ghost stories and abandoned buildings on a site that was completely unrelated to YO or EMS. It was a photography site, and the pics I've seen (with a little research) are INCREDIBLE. These guys take AMAZING pics!!! The photographer was obviously in for the pic, but when "we" got a hold if it, we wanted to know more. We're "ghetto medics" in Youngstown.
Let's start with the original picture:
How COOL is this??? Thanks to a couple of photographer "Sean's" Paramedics in Youngstown have some history to dig in to. Which is exactly what I did. And what I found out is amazing!
This is the page I found the pic on, I'm not stealing anyone's thunder. These guys are almost as good as a photographer I know near Cleveland, but that's a different story.
Amazing? Pic is, but THIS in Youngstown? No, not really. In Youngstown, "amazing" was normal for us. We built Steel. Ice Cream. Bread. Cars. Rail Roads. Coke. Coal. Automobiles. Movies. There was nothing Youngstown couldn't do. So why wouldn't we have hospitals?
I reached out to both Sean's responsible for this photo, Sean Gailbreath, and Sean Posey. I heard from Mr Posey this evening and that was all my brainus needed,,,,,,
According to Mr. Posey, this building was the hospital for General Fireproofing. He wasn't sure of the location, as it had been some time since the photo was taken.
"Bill, this was from the old General Fireproofing plant. Sadly, it has been torn down,"
With a little research, I determined that Youngstown, OUR Youngstown was also a pioneer in metal office furniture. With a factory on Logan Ave. Abandoned factory buildings on Logan near Gypsy, more specifically the area on Logan that's south of W Dennick. It's all open land and vacant now, which has become the story of our "YO".
General info on the company:
General Fireproofing
And again, because I'm pretty proud of all the rust I see in this city, I did a little more research, and came up with a current day video of where The Lospital once stood......
The Lostpital
We built steel. That steel made more factories, one of which that simply made metal office furniture. That factory made more jobs. More jobs to the point that General Fireproofing built their own Hospital, creating yet more jobs in the medical field. The need for more jobs, built schools and educated people that wanted to learn. Which, created even more jobs. All of a sudden we needed teachers, professors, factory workers, police officers, firefighters, engineers on the railroads we built, truck drivers, store clerks, accountants, bankers, car salesmen, car builders, butchers, bakers, movie makers.
What the hell happened to us?
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