Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns
Added 2022-01-22 01:01:01 +0000 UTCThere's a tendency to think about company towns as a quaint relic of the past, something that disappeared a century ago. But company towns aren't just some quirk of American history, they *are* American history.
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I need the company script... Membership level upgraded!
Jenn Herron
2022-01-24 16:11:45 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this one - there so much I didn't know about. Thanks!
graham
2022-01-22 19:57:21 +0000 UTCKB, your dedication is amazing and the results are even more so.
Cameron (and his Jeep)
2022-01-22 19:01:42 +0000 UTCThis video took 181 hours and 32 minutes to make.
Knowing Better
2022-01-22 18:02:30 +0000 UTCI think my grandmother took over 'the company store'. I grew up in a lumber town in Northern Ontario (go to Michigan and then keep going for a while) . When I was young ( 7or8?) I kind of remember a large cluster of town, had a laundry, one-room school house, curfew horn; then by the time I was 15 it was mostly empty, with some tourist activity. My grandmother went from working in the laundry to mostly owning the businesses in town. Seems like the lumber industry in Ontario basically barged in to the bush and set up a 'town', stripped out all the trees within driving distance then declared bankruptcy and moved a couple hundred miles away and re-spawned. They were doing this in the 60's when I lived there and still in the 90's last time I visited. The venality of the history of north american 'culture' still gob-smacks me. Keep on doing your do.
ed. J. bowers
2022-01-22 02:21:36 +0000 UTChow dare you deconstruct the history taught to me when i was in 1st grade?!?
Jon Adams
2022-01-22 01:21:53 +0000 UTC
