[upbeat rock music] both: i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder - la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la - sha la, la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la, la - pittsburgh is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own rites and rituals, a patchwork of cultures that took shape over a century ago. back then, the city was a beacon of hope and possibility for people from all over the world, offering the promise of work, prosperity, a new life. pittsburgh could have been another company town gone to beautiful ruin, but something happened. the city started to pop up on lists of the most livable places in america. it became attractive to a new wave of people from elsewhere looking to reinvent themselves and make a new world. and so we find ourselves asking the same questions we ask in other cities in transition. are the n
and everyone was gonna go apeshit for whatever it is that i served, and i learned. as serendipity would have it, i met john. asked if i d be interested in going for a walk in braddock. came out to braddock. fell in love. - with braddock, not me. - with braddock. [laughter] you know, it reminded me of mckees rocks, and mckees rocks, you know, has suffered much in the same way as braddock has. - kevin says he has ambitions that go beyond turning a profit. his restaurant hopes to provide tuition-free training, and they re partnering with a local urban farm that employs high school students to grow produce in the shadows of the old steel mill. and though we are talking a swank, high-end restaurant designed to attract the monied classes from out of town, locals will be offered steeply discounted meals. - so this is beautiful, grass-fed beef short ribs sitting on a bed of lightly blanched milkweed buds. on top, a bunch of over-wintered sun choke chips.
the 40s and 50s, before leaving to go to film school. why did you come back? - why did i come back? i was gone from about 68 to about 75. they i came home, and i saw everything s decaying even worse, and the people i hung out with, like there s sal carulli and other guys, they were these really characters. - chico pushed the button me. no one gonna push the button on me. nobody. nobody. the only guy that can do that is that guy up there, j.c. j. c., my man. - there s a lot of world war ii people that were starting to die off, and i was really like, this is gonna disappear, and the industry s going away. so i didn t know what else to make films about, so i just started documentaries and i just wanted to capture, and get some of these characters on film, and make them mythical. - but you stayed in braddock because braddock was your subject. - it s my subject, and i thought, okay, what if i move? if i move to los angeles, maybe i can get a job in the industry, but what if i get st
you know, white businesses. - in 1988, the state classified braddock as financially distressed, their term for bankruptcy, a status it still holds today. this is still working. - this is still working. it s the only plant working in the whole mon valley. this is where my dad worked for 46 years. the last time i was there it looked like a spaceship, it was all so modernized. there s probably 500 people doing the work of, you know, when my dad was there, 5,000. - so what do you think it s gonna take? or do you think it s just gonna die? - i think we re in the last stages of capitalism, because this is - you re talking socialism? - yeah, yeah, i m talking socialism, yeah. - when the magical workers paradise arrives, will braddock be here? - will braddock be here? i wish there was, like, a simple answer to all this. i ll die before i actually see what happens. i m not gonna know the story, and it really bothers me. it s the only thing i hate about the thought of dying
going to go apeshit for whatever it is that i served. and i learned. as serendipity would have it, i met john, asked if i d be interested to go for a walk in braddock. came out to braddock, fell in love. john: with braddock. kevin: with braddock. [ laughter ] um, you know if reminded me of mckees rocks. mckees rocks, you know, has suffered much in the same way as braddock has. anthony: kevin says he has ambitions that go beyond turning a profit. his restaurant hopes to provide tuition-free training. and they are partnering with a local urban farm that employs high school students to grow produce in the shadows of old steel mill. and then we are talking a swank, high-end restaurant designed to attract the moneyed classes from out of town, locals will be offered steeply discounted meals. kevin: so this is beautiful, grass-fed beef short ribs. sitting on a bed of lightly blanched milkweed buds. on top, a bunch of over-wintered sunchoke chips.