A town located in Washington state, where there are meth tweakers who steal shit from everyone and rednecks with their crappy Toyota pickups who go up Green mountain to get drunk, shoot guns and play beer pong.
by TheWiseSageBush June 26, 2016
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I read the other entries and felt compelled to hold up Granite City as an example of decline in the USA. The town is stratified big time. The haves and the have nots are segregated physically. If you have a good job you're fine, and if you don't you're screwed. There is also a major disparity in levels of education, and a hell of a lot of people that seem to always want to fight.
My family is from Lincoln Place, a declining part of the western edge of the city. It was home to a diverse immigrant community of Armenians, Hungarians, Macedonians, Croatians, and Mexicans, clustered around American Steel. The hood was always hardscrabble, but the old timers had a lot of pride. The ethnic folks' kids improved their station and mainly moved out. The neighborhood is still home to the Mexican Honarary Commission, and several of my family members.
The town used to have three mills going gangbusters, now there's one big one and a much smaller one. The decline in the steel industry led to a population crash from 40K in the late seventies to 31K now. Much of the population is of advanced age.
If the GC Steel ever closes, the town will simply fall into the toilet.
I read the other entries and felt compelled to hold up Granite City as an example of decline in the USA. The town is stratified big time. The haves and the have nots are segregated physically. If you have a good job you're fine, and if you don't you're screwed. There is also a major disparity in levels of education, and a hell of a lot of people that seem to always want to fight.
My family is from Lincoln Place, a declining part of the western edge of the city. It was home to a diverse immigrant community of Armenians, Hungarians, Macedonians, Croatians, and Mexicans, clustered around American Steel. The hood was always hardscrabble, but the old timers had a lot of pride. The ethnic folks' kids improved their station and mainly moved out. The neighborhood is still home to the Mexican Honarary Commission, and several of my family members.
The town used to have three mills going gangbusters, now there's one big one and a much smaller one. The decline in the steel industry led to a population crash from 40K in the late seventies to 31K now. Much of the population is of advanced age.
If the GC Steel ever closes, the town will simply fall into the toilet.
by mexikraut August 27, 2008
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a resident of the State of New Hampshire (the Granite State); a person with an attitude of persistence related to the idea of "Live Free or Die" (the New Hampshire state motto) or valuing independence/autonomy to the extent that common sense is secondary to the achievement of complete personal freedom
The passing of a law that would require the use of helmets by motorcycle riders, even though it is considered by many to be for the common good, would be rejected as an infringement of personal freedom by a granitehead.
by gavacho27 September 18, 2013
Get the granitehead mug.Granite City is a steel mill town about 6 miles east of St.Louis, Missouri. It's polluted for sure, just try driving past the steel mill on Edwardsville Road at night, and see and smell it. It also has a housing project that is being rebuilt, who knows why it's being rebuilt, it's been a headache to the town and the police department for years. Most people are blue-collar workers, average people, but rather tough, "suburban rednecks" you could say. Many people work at US steel/formerly Granite City steel, or drive to St.Louis to work. The west side and downtown has it's problems with drugs, and crime.
John:"You know Mike from Granite City?" Paul: "Yeah, he's a good guy, steel mill worker, kind of a blue-collar man"
by steelmillcowboy November 28, 2007
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by J J Ellison March 6, 2009
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by HumBabe March 6, 2005
Get the Granite Bones mug.A small town that was based on mill work in the 1900's and so forth . But on jan 6 a train wreak that cost the lives of a 9 people and cause this small little town to change forever . For a town that use to thrive is now 2017 almost like a ghost town trying to valid it's way back up with the help of a new business called reclaim
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