What was more, Kaiser planned to expand Fontana’s capacity by 15% (to 1,380,000 tons a year) and install a tinplate plant with a capacity of 200,000 tons a year.

Sammy Hagar, the Red Rocker, reflects on his Fontana hometown and the music and ... back in the ’50s Fontana had a population of just under 10,000 and Kaiser Steel had a payroll of about ...

It was a private railroad built for the express purpose of serving Kaiser Steel Corp.’s iron ore mine in the late 1940s, ... SP hauled the ore west to a Kaiser Steel mill at Fontana in the San Gabriel ...

Fontana's nearly 30-year-old Auto Club Speedway will be replaced by a multi-million dollar logistics hub after Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood Development bought the property.

Kaiser Steel remained the center of the Fontana economy until the mill shut down 40 years later. The entire story of the plant is told in the book written by history professor Ric Dias.) Facebook ...

He owns a 1951 Kaiser automobile. “Kaiser Steel of Fontana: Together We Build” is published by Arcadia Publishing and includes a foreword by Nick Cataldo, president of the San Bernardino ...

Didion was fifth-generation California; my mother arrived in Fontana as an immigrant from Switzerland, 19 years old, to join her father and stepmother, who had gotten jobs at Kaiser Steel and ...

The Inland area’s need for jobs grew in the 1980s when Kaiser Steel closed in Fontana and the 1990s when Norton Air Force Base closed in San Bernardino and March Air Force Base downshifted to ...