May Challenge .......

Day 24: Map.

Tonight we attended a free concert at Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

All summer long they offer free concerts on the weekends. We try to go to as many as possible. It's usually a fun filled evening that only costs the gas it takes to drive to the venue! You gotta love that!

This photo is of the Arts Quest building with the Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces being reflected in the windows. Bethlehem Steel helped put Bethlehem, PA on the map. But, sadly, closed many years ago.

Here's a little history (according to Wikipedia):
Bethlehem Steel Corporation was America's second-largest steel producer and largest shipbuilder.

Bethlehem Steel and a subsidiary company, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, were two of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership. Their demise is often cited as one of the most prominent examples of the U.S. economy's shift away from industrial manufacturing, its inability to compete with cheap foreign labor, and management's penchant for short-term profits.

After a decline in the American steel industry and other problems leading to the company's bankruptcy in 2001, the company was dissolved and the remaining assets sold to International Steel Group in 2003. In 2005, ISG merged with Mittal Steel, ending American ownership of the assets of Bethlehem Steel.