A huge sign in the distance said “Iron City.” Most people have consumed great lakes of that outstanding, locally produced beer. I did. It’s good beer, and the Iron City sign reminded me of what a wholesome, ethical kind of place this is, Pittsburgh. The Iron City sign was replaced with a Pond Lehocky sign (“Law firm excited to take over iconic Pittsburgh billboard,” Jan. 16, TribLive). And a perfectly lovely sign it is. No beefs, only thoughts, on signage.
I’m blue collar. When the temperature goes to 98 degrees in the boiler room, I sweat valves, rivets and washers. I eat bologna and sheet metal sandwiches for lunch. Washed down with an industrial solvent milkshake. Last time I got injured on the job, I did a John Wayne, let it bleed, and continued pouring hot liquid steel. But that’s no reason to be unmindful toward sensitive weaklings who need medical care and cash compensation. Those kinds of people need the help they get from lawyers, so that big new sign is OK with me.
Iron City Beer was a symbol of working people at their best. Slip and fall attorneys land cashola for people who got hurt at work. It’s a whole new industrial base. The steel industry used to be an industrial base here. Now that law and medicine are the new industrial base, workers can serve their communities by getting sick or injured. And by suing. It’s the new direction in economics. That new big sign is like the North Star. It will take you there.
Bruce Reisner
Perry South