Not many business people know that a thriving steel company still operates in Fontana, where half of the old Kaiser Steel complex was torn down years ago. Even fewer people know that California ...

FONTANA — It all began in 1943. That’s when industrialist Henry J. Kaiser decided to build a hospital for Kaiser Steel Mill employees and their families. Kaiser asked Dr. Sidney Garfield to ...

The richest was a nostalgia-soaked message from a retired boilermaker at Kaiser Steel from 1965 to 1982. Craig Chubbuck, now of Beaumont, toiled at the Fontana mill under contract as needed to ...

Ric Dias wrote a new book, “Kaiser Steel of Fontana, Together We Build.” (Photo by Mark Acosta, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Dias, who grew up in Northern California, attended graduate school at ...

creating Kaiser Aluminum and Steel. His Fontana, California based steel mill was to be the destination for iron ore, which would later be delivered by train from Eagle Mountain Mine ...

Auto Club Speedway is located on a tract of land in Fontana, California, that was formerly home to a 10,000-employee Kaiser Steel Mill. The mill opened in 1942 and closed in 1983, with most of the ...

NASCAR racing in Fontana dates all the way back to 1997, when the superspeedway — originally named California Speedway, opened on the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill. It was instantly ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – A lot of memories of a long-defunct steel mill were shared Sunday. The Kaiser Steel-Fontana Museum held a reunion with employees from Kaiser Steel and California Steel ...