Date Joined: Sept 16, 2012 13:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by sauerkraut on Dec 26, 2023 10:59:45 GMT -5
Detroit was a company town and very wealthy until the companies left. Many companies were chased out out of Detroit. Detroits 'hey-day' was the early 20th century, Henry Ford raised everyones wages to $5.00 a day in 1914 giving people money to actually buy a car, Detroit was a very high class city with some of the highest wages in the country, other companies had to follow with pay raises or they would lose employees to Ford, the standard of living in Detroit was one of the best in the nation. Funny thing is I heard talk of the 1930's depression and seen TV shows about it, but my parents or grand parents never mentioned it, I dunno if the worst of the depression missed Detroit or if it just didn't affect our family that much. Then when WWII hit Detroit was a boom town once more, the car plants turned over to make war equipment, the Detroit factories were roaring. Then there was a post war booming Detroit economy in the late 1940's when the 'baby boom' started. I guess things started to go bad in the 1950's slowly and then in the 1960's the race riots started and that was the end of Detroit, those who could and were able to fled to the suburbs and the great Detroit decline took place. Detroit had bad race riots in 1967.
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Date Joined: Sept 16, 2012 13:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by sauerkraut on Dec 26, 2023 11:04:42 GMT -5
There is hope to bring back Detroit. The one downtown skyscraper "Penobscot Building" was at one time the 5th tallest skyscraper in the world when it was built in 1929 about 170 meters high (550 feet) It's still one of my favorite buildings.
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