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Jan 2, 2025
11:05:56am

StarMan All-American

Yes, luckily they had great air filtration systems helping clean up inversions

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StarMan

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For those that have lived in Provo a long time, do you remember a steel plant

Jan 2, 10:59am

Geneva

Born2Fish

Jan 2, 11:00am

Geneva Steel

Greg4BYU

Jan 2, 11:00am

They even used to name BYU game MVPs after it

Indy Coug

Jan 2, 11:01am

Geneva Steel Man of the Game

Soupie

Jan 2, 11:41am

Yes, luckily they had great air filtration systems helping clean up inversions

StarMan

Jan 2, 11:05am

And when it closed, they just moved a million more people into the valley

Indy Coug

Jan 2, 11:07am

All those cupcake and soda shops need customers

Jan 2, 11:09am

Yes, and the cooling towers would make a nice thick fog between the Lindon-Orem-Unipkwy exists.

Bert609

Jan 2, 11:08am

It was a chemtrail testing site

Jan 2, 11:09am

When it was up and running Democrats and union workers weren't quite as rare

RC Vikings

Jan 2, 11:09am

I remember it from the 60s and 70s. Then it closed for a long time until the price of steel went up. Then the Cannon…

Brisco

Jan 2, 11:20am

My econ110 prof. said that one of his colleagues published a paper that linked

kcca

Jan 2, 11:26am

Geneva was actually built on the mean streets of Orem and what is now Vineyard. The rising crime problems did it in.

Still Open

Jan 2, 11:37am

When the wind was right, in the 90s it gave BYU campus a deliciously rotten odor

SinkingQuffa

Jan 2, 12:15pm

The I-beams in the SFH are stamped "Geneva Steel."

cvd6262

Jan 2, 1:34pm

FWIW (hint: nothing)

Jan 2, 1:52pm

That’s very cool. Remember it open & the pollution when a student at BYU in mid-80’s.

Soupie

Jan 2, 3:16pm

As I recall, the Chinese bought it. Dismantled it and reassembled it

Mister P

Jan 2, 2:42pm

They bought the pipe mill, nothing else IIRC, then disassembled /reassembled it in China.

Jan 2, 3:34pm

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