Awesome Piece of Middle Tennessee Ford History!!
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Awesome Piece of Middle Tennessee Ford History!!
This video is taken in my hometown, on the Lebanon town square, in 1931. I could watch this video again, and again!! Also this car still exists and was restored by Ford back in 2003!!! She lives!!
***EDIT*** There is no sound with this video, after all, it is from 1931....so your computer isn't messed up!!!
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***EDIT*** There is no sound with this video, after all, it is from 1931....so your computer isn't messed up!!!
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Originally Posted by The Condederate
There is no sound from this video, after all, it from 1931.
Warner Brothers invented the sound on disc system, calling it Vitaphone. Other studios used the Western Electric system, where the sound was recorded on the film itself.
The only US film studio that was still making silent films in 1931 was the Chaplin Studios. First "part talkie" film: The Jazz Singer (WB: 1927) / First all talking film: Broadway Melody (MGM: 1928).
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I saw videos where Henry Ford would enjoy getting in the specially marked cars and riding in them as they came off the line, back in the day where corporations were proud of their products, and cared about those who worked for them. Not all were that way, unions were necessary at the time, but Ford was one of the few who improved employee working conditions on his own.
The Rutherford County court house has a picture of a captured Japanese mini sub, it was on a flatbed truck, they took the picture on the Mufreesboro square, I love old black and white photos of towns in past times that are long forgotten.
The Rutherford County court house has a picture of a captured Japanese mini sub, it was on a flatbed truck, they took the picture on the Mufreesboro square, I love old black and white photos of towns in past times that are long forgotten.
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Originally Posted by maples01
Unions were necessary at that time, but Ford was one of the few who improved employee working conditions on his own.
FoMoCo didn't become a 'union shop' (UAW) until 1941. Henry Ford hated unions, wanted no part of them, it was his son Edsel that finally convinced him to sign on.
The in-famous "Battle of the Overpass" occurred at The Rouge in 1938.
UAW prez Walter Ruether (a former Ford assembly line worker) and a companion were passing out UAW leaflets past the overpass that led from The Rouge to the employee parking lots.
Members of the Service Department, FoMoCo's name for their in-house security force, known as the "goon squad" (most were ex-cons), greeted, then beat the hell out of both Ruether and his companion.
The entire incident was photograped by a local newspaper reporter, made headlines throughout the world the next day.
* General Motors, after a prolonged workers "sit-in" strike that occurred in 1936 at the Flint MI Chevrolet assembly plant, was the first to unionize. Chrysler Corporation unionized in 1938.
Originally Posted by maples01
The Rutherford County court house has a picture of a captured Japanese mini sub.
Ensign Sakamaka was captured, became POW #1. The sub was later sent on a War Bond tour across the US.
The midget sub exists, is located at Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' birthplace in Fredericksburg TX known as the National Museum of the Pacific War.
btw: Two hours PRIOR to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the destroyer USS Ward (DD139) sank a midget sub by gunfire that was attempting to enter Pearl Harbor, but...
The report of this incident didn't reach Admiral Kimmel (CINCPAC ~ Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet) until after the attack began.
btw, part II: Greywolf started a thread awhile back inre to FoMoCo history, was hoping it would become a regular feature. But it died PDQ, because there was next to no interest. Sad.
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Look at unions today, using the pension fund and dues like their own piggy bank, money is power, BTW they push all members to vote democrat, hand out leaflets during every election endorsing their candidates. FYI since the gov bailouts, the union purchased enough shares of GM stock to become a serious broker of it now, doubt they'll have union contract arguments anymore. They were needed in the past, it made work safer, etc, but now it's causing more problems than preventing, states can't afford pensions on all it's employees, not when so many retire at the same time, can't cover their replacement and retirees at the same time.
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Look at unions today, using the pension fund and dues like their own piggy bank, money is power, BTW they push all members to vote democrat, hand out leaflets during every election endorsing their candidates. FYI since the gov bailouts, the union purchased enough shares of GM stock to become a serious broker of it now, doubt they'll have union contract arguments anymore. They were needed in the past, it made work safer, etc, but now it's causing more problems than preventing, states can't afford pensions on all it's employees, not when so many retire at the same time, can't cover their replacement and retirees at the same time.
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Well, maybe we could try it again. At the very least we can start one here in the Tennessee forum.....