- the town of braddock is where andrew carnegie built his first steel mill in the 1870s. by the turn of the century, he bought another one up the river, the carrie furnaces. these smoke and fire belching behemoths were the heart of a steel-producing industry that spread throughout the monongahela river valley, generating wealth and power to the few and a decent living to many. - when tomorrow comes, you'll have a better so-called today. so you're thinking of the day will decide your destiny and your future. and if you don't succeed, it's your own fault because you didn't take control of what you think because what you think is gonna decide what you do, and what you do is gonna decide what you get. now, that's all for today, folks. let's go to work. - for the last 40 years, tony buba has been making documentaries about the fate of the working class in braddock. he grew up here during the town's heyday,