My Dad told me a story a long time ago, he was born 1925 and in the thirties, his Dad was bragging about how the wind shield in the Model T was "Unbreakable" and when Dad's friend was over Dad of course had to brag about it and his friend said prove it so, Dad threw a hammer at it and of course it broke. Dad said Grandma wouldn't let grandpa spank him for it because he had been bragging about it! A bunch of those old cars with the plastic in between the glass were in our junk yard That my Dad had and he took the glass out of them when he build onto our house and used it in the old metal window sash. My Great uncles both cut glass and installed it 1958.
My grandpa worked at the Ford plant in Windsor Ontario and had two of these in his rock garden. I never knew where they came from till now. Windsor is just across the Detroit River and the huge Rouge river plant in Detroit. One of the glass blobs looked like a waterfall especially when it rained. Cheers 🇨🇦
My Grandfather, Daniel Francis Sullivan worked in the glass plant at the St Paul Assembly Plant. He retired from there in 1953. I always drive Ford automobiles because of him. I always though he would haunt me if I drove anything else. I was so sad that the Ford plant shut down there. My Uncle lived on Pinehurst St about 5 blocks from the plant. We used to spend about 3 weeks there in the summers and I loved walking down and looking at the new cars in the lot.
Yes. The St. Peter sandstone. The sandstone supported a large glass bottle and glassworks industry in Saint Paul around 1900. Ford Motor Co. mined the deposits beneath its Twins Cities Assembly plant extensively, producing a majority of the glass for the windshield and windows used in its automobiles for decades. The tunnels were then backfilled with production detritus from the assembly plant. This became a considerable obstacle to site preparation for the conversion of the Ford Assembly Plant employing hundreds to urban housing development housing thousands who have to drive to or commute by light rail to work in the outer suburbs. However the onsite hydropower dam which provided the electricity to the plant was sold to a Canadian firm which now sells that electricity into the local grid. Currently the railroad property associated with the railroad spur that supplied the factory is entertaining all manner of repurposing proposals.
Ford stopped mining and making glass at the plant in 1959. Some of the tunnels were closed off, but others got new life. One tunnel was used to house a University of Minnesota seismographic station to monitor for earthquakes and - during the Cold War - nuclear attacks.
Maybe it’s just me but, I don’t see the need for the right half of the screen to be green with the fake electro/voice graph in the middle? I think enlarging a nice historical photo would better serve the video. Thank you.
I was there, 1949 school trip, made windows. 49 ford worst ford ever built. Chang over from two springs to four springs, all 4 weak , car was junk, my dad bought a Buick,
