![]() ![]() Over 2,000 hourly workers and 180 salaried workers frequented the building they passed. GM invested 60 million dollars to upgrade the plant. The tides turned with the oil crisis of the seventies and the nationwide plant closings of the eighties.īut, like rain to the parched ground, optimism returned to Flint at the turn of the century. Generations of workers walked through the doors each generation believed theirs would do better than the one before. In 1908 General Motors opened their newly founded headquarters in Flint. ![]() Today it represented urban decay at its utmost. Three shifts of workers came and went from these factories. At one time during Flint, Michigan’s prime, cars filled these parking lots twenty-four hours a day. Acres and acres of fenced concrete occupied each side of the decrepit street. Peering through the windshield at the signs of a dying city, Rich Bosley wondered if this was how the old west felt when the gold rush ended. The tires of their Chevy Equinox bounced along the worn pavement and dilapidated surface of Bristol Road. ![]()
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