Sign, Informational
Sign, Informational
Sign, Informational

Sign, Informational

Object number2012.122.18
Made by
Date1970-1979
MediumCardboard, paint
Credit LineGift of Joan and Steve Isack
DescriptionWhite, rectangular sign with black and blue stenciled text.Dimensions27.875 x 44 in. (70.8 x 111.8 cm)
InscriptionsBlack and blue stenciled text "U.S.Steel Cares About Clairton / JoinCoke / CLAIRTON ORGANIZES to KEEP EMPLOYMENT / IF YOU WANT TO KEEP JOBS IN CLAIRTON, / YOU MUST VOTE NOW! / Attend the public hearings in Pittsburgh on Mon, July 30th. / regarding the State Implementation Plan and the Water Quality / Standards which concern the future of operations at the / Clairton Coke Works and at all other U.S.Steel Plants in the / Mon Valley. / Sign-Up to attend these hearings NOW! Free bus transportation / and box lunch provided by COKE. Buses leave the corner of / Miller and St. Clair Avenues, Mon July 30th. at 8a.m. / We need YOU to attend these hearings and SPEAK OUT / Sign-Up at the following locations to keep jobs in Clairton: / EQUI BANK,CLAIRTON MARRACCINI'S SUPERMARKET / EQUI BANK, WILSON PITTSBURGH NATIONAL BANK / FOODLAND STELLA'S CARD SHOP / HAINES SUPERMARKET THRIFTDRUG / MUNICIPAL BUILDING / the "COKE" CITIZENS COMMITTEE".
Historical NotesPart of a collection from the Ilkuvitz Clothing Store in Clairton, Pennsylvania. The store was founded by Edward J. Ilkuvitz, an Orthodox Jew who immigrated to the United States from Hungary in the early 1900s. He started out peddling to the mill community of Clairton, Pennsylvania, before finally opening a store in the 1920s. The store was located on Miller Avenue and Edward Ilkuvitz built the store and the apartment above it, which still bears the name on the building. Edward's son Norman took over the store and operated it into the 1990s. The last 10 to 20 years that the store operated, Norman did not order much inventory, and it was mainly a social spot for some of the older residents in Clairton. Norman kept merchandise from the 1940s on the shelves and it remained a time capsule of a typical 1940s/1950s general store in a mill community. The collection includes a sampling of records and inventory to represent the kinds of things people were purchasing and much of the records show who Edward and Norman were ordering from, stretching back to the early 1900s when Jewish wholesalers on Fifth Avenue were providing much of the merchandise to outlying general stores. The collection also includes a small sampling of items from the family's apartments above the store that represent their Jewish heritage.
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