Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wanda has spent all her life in Hamtramck, which is surrounded entirely by the city of Detroit. Except during the war, she has always lived upstairs in the two-family, white frame house her immigrant parents bought for $7,000 in 1921. Since her husband died 16 years ago, and her father, Roman Lyjak, who worked as a body finisher at Dodge Main before her, died in 1969, Wanda has lived alone upstairs. Her mother, 82, lives downstairs. Wanda's brother, an inspector at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant, comes around to help with the house. Many...
Dodge Main made Hamtramck. Thousands of Polish families, following a trail of promises, booked passage on the ship to Montreal and came on by boat or rail to Detroit to dominate the plant's work force. "There was a time when, if your name didn't end in 'ski,' you couldn't get in here," says one plant official. Old World bakeries and sausage shops sprang up. Bars and beer gardens huddled around the giant factory to wet a thousand throats at shift change...
...gush of gratitude, Americans extended congratulatory hands across the border. It was as though the U.S. were almost surprised to find that it had a friend after all. Where other allies had nervously shunned sanctions and offered only rhetoric against Iran, Canada had literally come to the rescue. In Detroit, billboards facing Canada suddenly sprouted Canadian maple leaves and appreciative messages like THANK YOU, CANADA. The Canadian embassy switchboard in Washington was overwhelmed by Americans wishing to convey warm sentiments: "Brilliant move." "Courageous feat." "Well done." In Fergus Falls, Minn., Radio Station KBRF got an enthusiastic response to its suggestion...
...Catching Detroit's disease...
...January, Chrysler, the U.S.'s ailing No. 3 carmaker, closed its aging, inefficient Dodge assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich. Two weeks later, Uniroyal, the No. 4 rubber company, announced plans to shutter one of its oldest tiremaking factories, a 74-year-old mausoleum just south of Hamtramck on Detroit's Jefferson Avenue. The timing of the closings was coincidental, but it did serve as a stark reminder of how quickly a slump in the car industry can affect its many suppliers...