Could you add, Warren and Sterling Heights? Another machine-shop centric town, near Chrysler in it's hayday, Clawson...
Would they have all existed if they didn't get out of Detwaa and build all those business park streets along the numbered miles?
FWIW, many of these mom and pop shops are now vacant with all the changes in the auto industry from Cad/Cam to the ISO movement and then the collapse....
“Troy wouldn’t exist as it is today, but for the stupid Detroit politicians.”
To which:
“Could you add, Warren and Sterling Heights? Another machine-shop centric town, near Chrysler in it’s hayday, Clawson...
Would they have all existed if they didn’t get out of Detwaa and build all those business park streets along the numbered miles?”
WWI, WWII, Korea, the Cold War and Space Race, Vietnam...even Desert Shield/Desert Storm...Detroit and it’s Metro area suburbs closer to 8 Mile Rd. (up to 19-20 Mile Rd.) were outfitted for wartime and peacetime manufacturing of military weaponry and equipment but only during WWII was domestic automobile production halted.
There were also the manufacturers of the machinery and tools found on the floors of shops and factories of all kinds. “The Arsenal of Democracy” in Detroit had been around since before Pearl Harbor was hit in 1941. It wasn’t until WWII that it went into overdrive and it had nothing to do with White Flight.