This factory built 650 B-24 bombers a month. GM shut it down in 2009, when the company became the People's Automotive Collective #1. Sic transit Gloria Mundi.
Waht really gets me shivvering (and even scared of zombies) is the Denver Post photo section the ran: The Ruins of Detroit - so sad and not just a little bit scary.
Detroit was once a city to be proud of - look at Shorpy for views in the teens and twenties - and the sad remnants that still exist. Truly "The Arsenal of Democracy" in its day (much more than just the Willow Run plant)
Don't know when the decline truly started, but the city never recovered from the 67 riots. It was 4th largest city in 1960 - 18th now between Charlotte, NC and El Paso, TX and falling.
Still proud to be from there, but like most Texans I've met, I'm proud of a place I won't live in anymore. Q
Waht really gets me shivvering (and even scared of zombies) is the Denver Post photo section the ran: The Ruins of Detroit - so sad and not just a little bit scary.
ReplyDeleteBe prepared for what might transpire in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteIt breaks your heart to see what we've let happen.
ReplyDeleteWillow Run after the war.
and How Willow Run was built.
Detroit was once a city to be proud of - look at Shorpy for views in the teens and twenties - and the sad remnants that still exist. Truly "The Arsenal of Democracy" in its day (much more than just the Willow Run plant)
ReplyDeleteDon't know when the decline truly started, but the city never recovered from the 67 riots. It was 4th largest city in 1960 - 18th now between Charlotte, NC and El Paso, TX and falling.
Still proud to be from there, but like most Texans I've met, I'm proud of a place I won't live in anymore.
Q
Here's a pile of WW2 photos from Willow Run:
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