[quote=birmingplumb]Henry Ford pulled the farmers sons off the family farm leaving ma and pa holding the bag. Then the Cass Corridor was built to house the several hundred thousand transient southern worker. We had 100,000 at Ford Rouge, 60k at dodge main. Conner Avenue had 100 bars from Jefferson to 6 mile ( 6 miles) and at quiting time just after the War, there were 100’000 people on Conner. That was our heyday. One by one, plants closed helped by the Japan invasion in the 70’s. People bought Toyota’s vw’s and Datsuns. Once secretive auto companys were forced to sub contract components to compete with the jap government subsidized foreign cars. ( prob ours too) Once the sub contractors had control and we sold our equipment, they sold all our technology to Kia and others who sprang to the front with bought technology from suppliers with no loyalty. So thats where we went wrong folks. Suppliers broke the monopoly. It was good while it lasted. Detroit is a shell of it’s former self. When the plants pulled out, they left a waste land of welfare and liquor stores for the children to study. 4 th generation of welfare is here in Detroit. Add corrupt slick ass college boys politicians and u have the fox guarding the hen house. I moved my children to San Diego 3 years ago from Detroit. God bless San Diego and the forum and especially Bearish Gurl. Motown[/quote]
Thanks for sharing that perspective, BP. Very interesting.
