New Video Alert! Check out these great murals in honor of Steve Ditko Co-Creator of Spider-Man in our hometown of Johnstown, PA. Link Below!

https://youtu.be/QzEx7aJk3fc

#MarvelStudios #Marvel #SpiderMan @TheRealStanLee #steveditko #johnstown @VisitJohnstown

"The Point" in Johnstown, Pennsylvania - confluence of Little Conemaugh and Stoneycreek Rivers to form Conemaugh River. The stone railroad bridge trapped a mass of debris during the 1889 flood. May 1991.

Scanned from a 35mm Ektachrome 64 slide. #OldPhotos #Ektachrome #Pennsylvania #Johnstown

Older video Fun Fact! This RCA BC-7A Audio board was originally purchased by WCRO in Johnstown PA.

It survived the 1977 Johnstown Flood, the story I was told was it was just a few feet from being submerged!

https://youtu.be/XfuDvI-ZysU

#RCA #Audio #WCRO #johnstown #Engineering

Today in Labor History May 31, 1889: The Johnstown Flood. 2,209 people died when a dam holding back a private resort lake burst upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest U.S. disaster to date. Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati. It caused $17 million of damage (about $490 million in 2020 dollars).

Wealthy industrialists, like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick owned and patronized the resort. They had built cottages and a clubhouse and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and private mountain retreat. They had also lowered the dam to build a road across it and installed a fish screen in the spillway that tended to trap debris. Investigators believe these alterations contributed to the disaster. Yet none of the members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were found guilty of any crimes. Furthermore, survivors repeatedly lost court cases in their attempts to recover damages due to the club members’ wealth and expensive legal team. However, public outrage did prompt changes in American law leading to one of strict liability in future cases.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #Johnstown #flood #disaster #ClassWar #liability

RT @AdoptableBuns@twitter.com https://twitter.com/AdoptableBuns/status/1654113700641484800#m: Kieran is a young Netherland Dwarf from #Johnstown, PA. http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/60377661

#AndrewCarnegie, the richest man of his day, and his fellow members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, were directly responsible for the #Johnstown #Flood that killed over 2200 people.

Of course, that was in the benighted 19th century. In the modern 21st century, people like #ElonMusk can be responsible for the deaths of many, many more people without ever having to feel the sting of liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

FUCK it's cold! #homofortheholidays #johnstown #pa

Today in History: May 31, the Johnstown Flood - ABC News #today #history #johnstown #flood #news #31maggio https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly9hYmNuZXdzLmdvLmNvbS9VUy93aXJlU3RvcnkvdG9kYXktaGlzdG9yeS0zMS1qb2huc3Rvd24tZmxvb2QtODUwNzc5Nzc=

> .. They set to work immediately ..to counter.. democratic deviations, the first major effort.. In 1936.. the #Bethlehem steel strike.. in Western #Pennsylvania, #Johnstown.. #MohawkValley and business tried out a new technique of destruction of labor which worked.. through propaganda.. Not through goon squads, breaking knees and all that.. which wasn’t working.. well anymore but through.. subtle and effective means of propaganda.
https://chomsky.info/199201__/
#MohawkValleyFormula #UnionBusting