The Main Buildings of the Baltimore Procter & Gamble Plant Now A Day Care Center The Wire Insider Part III The Last of Three Commentaries on The Wire Industrial Me July 5, 2008 The street on which my family lived was a major route to a place we called “The Point,” a short version of Sparrows Point, location of the Bethlehem Steel Company plant that was at one time the largest steel plant in the world. My father and uncles came to work there during and after WWII, when steel was needed for the war. There were about thirty thousand people, mostly men, working in the mills in the late sixties. I took a job in the 42” Skin Pass section of the tin mill, on the cold side of the plant as opposed to the hot side where they handled molten steel in places like the coke oven, where some of my uncles worked. My father worked in the pipe mill on the cold side for thirty-six years. I was there for one year beginning in 1970, when I dropped out of the University of Maryland at College Park ...