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Jan 2, 2025
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Soupie
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That’s very cool. Remember it open & the pollution when a student at BYU in mid-80’s.
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For those that have lived in Provo a long time, do you remember a steel plant
Six Foot Seven
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
IGlowInTheDark
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
IGlowInTheDark
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)
Rules For Thee
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.
Rules For Thee
Jan 2, 3:34pm
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