25 years after Bethlehem Steel’s last cast: ‘It was proud and sad … done with great dignity and pride.’

It was Nov. 18, 1995, the last day of steel making, or “last cast” at Bethlehem Steel’s furnaces in Bethlehem, Pa., which still stand as a now silent icon, the backdrop for a casino and some of the city's biggest events from concerts at Musikfest to holiday shopping at Christkindlmarkt.