Also gas was unleaded or leaded. Now Flint’s water is Would you like Leaded water or Unleaded water. You have your choice. The Wixom MI Ford Car plant closed a couple years ago. Drive by that plant being developed into something else. Up here in the UP we still have the former Ford Plant in Kingsford. Also the Ford Sawmill is still in in Alberta Village, MI (Just northeast of Covington and Southeast of L’ Anse). This operational saw mill was donated by Ford to Michigan Technical University. This was Ford; Socialism experiment. Everything was right there, housing and work.
Wixom closed way more than two years ago.
Was it actually an experiment in Socialism (" the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole") or just a typical "Mill Town" in a rural area?