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Cars And 1950's: They Go Hand In Hand
Cars and 1950's: They Go Hand in Hand

Cars, during the 1950's this new invention was amazing, it was thought of as a thing of the future. Cars and new fangled inventions were all the rage. However people didnt quite see the bad side of the car industry.No technology has had a greater impact on American everyday life than the automobile. Where we live, how we work, how we travel, what our landscape looks like, our environment have all been profoundly shaped by the car. Detroit was at the center of it all, the cars,Detroit was ideally situated to be a center of the American automobile industry. Detroit was in the center of America's industrial heartland. Everything needed to make cars was right at the fingetips of the 3 major producers
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