DETROIT, which has become the largest city in American history to file for bankruptcy, is famous for many things. We list six.
Detroit largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy
FOUNDED on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
KNOWN as Motor City, for it being the historic heart of the American automotive industry, which provided the model for mass production that other industries later adopted. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, pioneered the use of the assembly line in manufacturing automobiles. At its peak, over 90,000 workers toiled at Ford's River Rouge plant in Detroit.
GAVE birth to Motown Records, a record label in 1959, which played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label owned by an African-American Berry Gordy, Jr and primarily featuring African-American artists. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Jackson 5, and Gladys Knight & the Pips all featured on the label.
RENAMED Detroit Rock City by the rock band KISS in a song off their 1976 album Destroyer. A film of the same name was made in 1999.
Birthplace of 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, politician and singer Sonny Bono and home to musicians Kid Rock and Eminem.
CLINT Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino was set in Detroit. In the Chrysler Super Bowl ad shown at half-time in the final in February 2012, Eastwood talked about “halftime in America” and the return of Detroit from the economic scrapyard. “Remember the auto bailout? Yeah, that was us.” It was implied that Eastwood was backing Barack Obama's political campaign.
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