Slideshow: The Steelers in the 30s

Sunday, September 09, 2007

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Multimedia presentation by
Lizabeth Gray and Jim Mendenhall
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The depression held the country in its grip. Unemployed men and women waited in long lines for food and sometimes the hope of work. Many lived in the shanty towns that had sprung up around the city.

But in the darkness of the time a National Football League team brought about the birth of a new nation ... the Steelers Nation.

First published on September 9, 2007 at 12:00 am

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