Retiring editor reflects on his East Side story

The blaze started in an abandoned, five-story Briggs Manufacturing auto body plant and leapt across a side street to torch the church where my grandparents were married in 1919. Auto assembly plants - Packard, Dodge Main and Chrysler Jefferson among them - were the heart of the economic value chain...

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Published in:Automotive News 2021-12, Vol.96 (7016), p.12
Main Author: Versical, Dave
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobile industry
Automotive bodies
Bakery products
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Breweries
Computer & video games
Factories
Homes and haunts
Manufacturing
Periodical editors
Value chain
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Summary:The blaze started in an abandoned, five-story Briggs Manufacturing auto body plant and leapt across a side street to torch the church where my grandparents were married in 1919. Auto assembly plants - Packard, Dodge Main and Chrysler Jefferson among them - were the heart of the economic value chain on that side of Detroit. From there, the grocery stores and the banks and the cleaners and the bakeries and the breweries that supported a Detroit population that tripled from 1910 to 1930, thanks to the booming auto industry. [...]our new vice president of editorial operations, Chrissy Taylor, has been brought on to sharpen our digital game as we prepare to serve a generation that doesn't read news on printed pages.
ISSN:0005-1551
1557-7686