The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

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The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
They call it the car for everyman, Henry Ford himself calls it the car for the great multitude and it is functional and simple, like your sewing machine or your cast iron stove.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
You can learn to drive it less than a day, and you can get any colour you want so long as it is black.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
When ford first conceive the model T it took him 13 hours, within 5 years he is turning out vehicle every 90 minutes.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
The real invention wasn’t the car but the assembly line.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
Pretty soon other business has borrowed the same technique. It was a beginning and end of an imagination all at the same time.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
The Model T was a great commercial success, and by the time Henry made his 10 millionth car, 9 out of 10 of all cars in the entire world were Fords. In fact, it was so successful that Ford did not purchase any advertising between 1917 and 1923; in total, more than 15 million Model Ts were manufactured, more than any other model of automobile for almost a century.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. There were no suicide on Wall Street that day, it is a myth that will grow overtime, and the real effect of October 29 took a little longer to sink in.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
By noon, all the games have been deliberated, by 10 pm 10 billion of market value was gone. Over two weeks the chaos continues, by not long, 25% of the workforce was unemployed.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
A great national migration began. Displace American took to the highway with the last possession they had with them, their automobile.

The Automobile Home of the Great Depression
All at once, million of Americans have a new definition for home.

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  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

Comments:


  1. stephanie
    1

    Can you send me some images of what they looked like when they ate their food?And from the looks of the web the great depression looked horrible.

  2. tom kelly
    2

    where’s the cardboard house…..

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