Contributed by Dave Jensen

This documentary that Ford Motor Co put together back in 1961 is nostalgic and a look back at the way we were. 25 minutes long but worth setting the time aside for it. A lot of nostalgia, but a certain amount of depression!!

MY HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED


ENJOY THE TRIP BACK TO FIFTY YEARS AGO WHEN DETROIT PULSATED TO THE SOUND OF MOTOWN AND AND FACTORIES DOTTED THE LANDSCAPE OF THIS GREAT CITY.

IT WAS A TOWN KNOWN FOR GRAVEL IN IT'S GUT AND WOULD SPIT IN YOUR EYE AND THE BOSSES WOULD SAY: " WANNA WORK SATURDAY". AND WE JUMPED ON IT! WORKING OVERTIME WAS WAS THE NORM AND RARELY REFUSED AND IT BUILT A CITY AROUND BAGLEY STREET. ALL BECAUSE OF A WATCHMAKER NAMED HENRY FORD WHO HAD THE NERVE TO PUT A "HORSELESS" CARRIAGE OUT ON THE STREETS OF DETROIT ONE NIGHT.

NOW COMPARE IT TODAY. A CITY GASPING FOR BREATH, A CITY ON "LIFE SUPPORT". A CITY THAT AT ONE TIME WAS A MAGNET FOR HUNDRED OF INDUSTRIES TO FEED THE "BIG THREE'S APPETITE FOR MANUFACTURING.

THIS 25 MINUTE VIDEO WILL TAKE YOU BACK TO WHAT DETROIT ONCE WAS JUST 50 SHORT YEARS AGO. LIKE A FAMOUS DISC JOCKEY NAMED LEE ALAN WOULD SAY DURING HIS SHOW: "IT'S FUN TO LIVE IN DETROIT'!!

(NOTICE THE SIDELINKS THAT NOW DESCRIBE DETROIT)

Sit back and enjoy the past.

Live Life

Portrait of a City - Detroit (1961)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dUW5bqdKWew