Driving America Forward: Ford Icons Come to Union Station for America's 250th
From July 1 through July 14, Ford will host Driving America Forward: A Ford Experience at Union Station , a free public exhibit that gathers, under one roof, some of the most culturally significant vehicles and artifacts in the American story. These are not merely cars and trucks. They are the machines that carried us to work and to war, to church on Sunday and to the moon itself. They built our towns. For 123 years, Ford has done more than build automobiles. In 1908, the Model T put America on wheels, the first car the working man could actually afford. Five years later, in a brick factory in Highland Park, Michigan, Ford engineers perfected the moving assembly line, and the modern world was never quite the same. Then came the $5 wage, doubling the going rate overnight, on the radical notion that the men who built the cars ought to be able to drive one home. This decision helped spark the Great Migration, when more than six million Black America...
