In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about ἀnding the option. Job Name: -- /330792t [ IX. GAS AND LIGHT ] A good time is 2nd. -HENRY FORD 61a. 61a, b, c. "\V/zat Detroit looked like in the early nineties. Here is the Campus Martius, looking south. The Campus Martius and the Grand Cir61b . 61c. cus, a half mile north, were the hubs of the city. On the left a beer wagon is driving away over the cobbles; on the right a horsecar and a long rank of hansom cabs. The corner of Michigan and Woodward, filled with awnings, open streetcars, and a scurrying small dog. The Majestic Building has still to be erected on the corner where the awnings are; it was recently demolished to make tcay for a new skyscraper, the Federal Savings and Loan Building; and on the left is the old City Hall, also just demolished to create a parking area. And the old Detroit Police Station, complete with a police patrol wagon. If you look at the pictures a little, you will see why it is impossible to make a movie that recaptures another time. No matter how accurate the research, how careful the costumes, how honest the intent, there is something missing, and it is not a matter of clothes or geography. We are different because we do not think the thoughts they did, nor know the things they did, nor move the way they did. So it is all gone, with each generation , as our own grandchildren will look at our pictures and wonder. Life in most of the United States in the 1890's was much like that in the pictures: quiet, dreamy, spacious. The land was still empty of people and things. When it is impossible to get anywhere in a hurry, no one hurries. This imparts a comfortable pace to events. Life was no picnic, then, anymore than it ever was or ever will be; but there were no nerves, no ulcers, no psychiatrists, almost no telephones , and night-life meant being out after dinnertime . 50 In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about ἀnding the option. Job Name: -- /330792t Gas and Light Detroit was the fifteenth city in the United States: its population was 205,669, the U.S. population 62,622,250. The salary of the governor of Michigan had just been raised from $1,000 a year to $4,000. In Detroit there was factory smoke in the skies, and on Friday, September 25, 1891, Henry and Clara Ford headed toward that smoke, riding in a haywagon with their furniture. 62. Transportation, the 1890's. When you wanted to go somewhere you got between the shafts of the buggy and tugged it out of the shed yourself. Then you went into the barn, harnessed the horse, backed him between the shafts, hitched him up 62. and were ready to go. This was never any fun, and on cold days it was less than that. The man above is putting his buggy away. 63. The American road, the 1890's, in good weather: a typical country road five years before Henry Ford got his first car to run. Most U.S. roads then were typical. In all the land there were only a few thousand miles of highway better than this; most of the good roads ended a few miles outside the cities. In the '90's the roads were actually worse than they had been two score years before, because the great railroad-building boom had put an end to the Conestoga wagons, the only long-haul road users. Road building had gone to pot; everyone took the trains. A town away from a railroad was truly isolated. 64. The American road, the 1890's, in bad weather. 63. On a good day it was pleasant to ;og along a sweet-smelling country lane behind a well-gaited horse. There were few traffic problems; two drivers steered their Dobbins to the right and saluted each other with their whips. But in a cold, soaking rain, with the horse's hooves splashing up great gouts of chocolate mud as he struggled along the ruts, travel was only for country doctors . Notice the width of...

Share