The Rouge industrial complex turns 100 this year. It has become the substance of legend, art and the American Dream. Conceived by the mind of Henry Ford, created through the genius of Albert Kahn and made famous by the labor of hundreds of thousands of Detroiters it came to embody 20th Century Detroit.
For me The Rouge was an opportunity for paying my way through university by building Ford 390 V8 engines in the Dearborn Engine Plant--one of the many plants in the Rouge--and learning the value and fairness of unions that paid a fair wage and allowed the workers around me to achieve their American Dreams.
Anybody else have any birthday memories of The Rouge?
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