Joe Magarac, Braddock, PA - Giants of Commerce on Waymarking.com

Located at the front gate to the legendary Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, you will find this statue of this icon. He was a hardworking man of eastern European stock. It is said that he could make steel products with his bare hands.

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Also memorialized in a folk song:

To the old steel mill, Big Joe went down
Joe Magarac.
He said, 'All you hunkies gather round.'
Big Joe Magarac.
I heard they gonna build a railroad to Frisco and back
From Maine down to Mexico.
And whose gonna make the steel for that track?
Big Joe Magarac.

— The New Christy Minstrels

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