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GM is expected to file for bankruptcy today, but there was a time when Detroit was booming and the American automobile reigned supreme. VIEW OUR GALLERY of classic American car culture.
Long before the days of Michael Moore documentaries and bankruptcy for GM, Detroit was a booming one-industry town, and Americans were in love with the automobile. Children raced model cars in the street, celebrities and presidents proudly waved with the top down, and Henry Ford was considered American royalty. But at least one thing will never change: Women always look fabulous on the hood of a car. Here’s a drive down memory lane.
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Rachel is a photographer and writer who recently left her blogging post at Photoshelter's Shoot! The Blog. Previous to that she worked as a photo editor at Nerve.com, Rolling Stone online, and Radar, among others. Her work can be seen at rachelhulin.com.
Beautiful works of art. Gorgeous.
Made at a time when Corporate America
took pride in "Made In The USA."
Now it seems much of corporate America
is run by soul less empty suits who could give
a rat's ass about this country,
making a quick buck by outsourcing,
and getting by with the thinnest margins of materials and quality.
Where has corporate America's pride gone ?
Oh Yah, India and China.
Please excuse the shameless butt kissing,
but congrats to " The Daily Beast " for having enough
pride in what you do in make the most engaging
"electronic newspaper" on the web.
The Beast is the Blue Print for the future, the digital newsmag.
Interesting, Informative, Entertaining, Engaging, and perhaps
most importantly, easy to navigate with it's featured headlines.
Sometimes trivial and trashy. Trivial and trashy is okay once in awhile.
Makes things fun.
Congrats to Tina Brown.
Your talk show "Topic A" was a great show, but the name was so awful it
never caught on.
What would have been wrong with a name like "The Tina Brown Show?"
Wonder if you could mimic that kind of show on this web sight
with an audio / visual page ? Just an idea.
Tina's Topic could have an interview segment on this sight
with a guest or two, or panelists, if not cost prohibitive.
With help of advertising dollars rolling in.
I read once where most of the Japanese cars were designed in California. Meanwhile, the designers in Detroit, where everyone worked for the auto industry and bought American thought that was what the rest of the country wanted. I nominate Steve Jobs to design GM's next car. The iCar would put them all back to work.
these photos merely show what people thought a car was at their time; a carriage, a train, a rocket, a sofa in tupperware. oh, and all burning perhaps the cheapest gas in the world.
high fuel prices cause dars to look more like a car looks like as travel and safety equipment -- just as most tools of a kind look generally alike, designers are agreeing on what the general appearance of a car should be.
another thing about car design of the 50s, it was led often by salesmen who went with auto execs and craftsmen to a parking lot where the previous models sat waiting for them to reform to concoct the next year's look. and the ads were misleading, illustrators would widen the proportion of the body and push the wheels up into the wells.
i'm from north of detroit but i have no false notions about the american tuto industry -- the industry that fought seatbelt laws and put a metal dashboard in the corvair -- the combination of which i was victim of as a very young kid.
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