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Carve-outs

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People waiting for public transportation

End of the Line

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Industrial loom

Room for a Lady

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Soap Box Derby racers cross finish line.

Pull of Gravity

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Flight of Fancy - A single-seat aircraft, the Ford Flivver was intended to be the “Model T of the Air,” but the plane never caught on. Today, Model No. 1, built in 1926, is on display at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn. // Courtesy of The Henry Ford

Flivver Talk

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Dynamic Range - Founded in 1931, Detrola Corp. found early success producing low-cost radios during the Depression. They soon developed private brand radios for department stores and merchants, and added cameras in 1939. // Courtesy of Mike Eckman

Photo Finish

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Whiz Kid - Avis Car Rental, founded by Bay City native Warren Avis, got its start in 1946 at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township. In 1972, the company debuted Wizard, the first computer-based reservation system to be used in the United States car rental business. Many customers today still have a unique “Wizard number.” // Courtesy of Fairfax Media Archives

Hire Power

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Stand Proud - A statue of Stevens T. Mason, Michigan’s first governor, was created in 1908 by Albert Weinert and placed in Capitol Park in downtown Detroit. The statue still stands in the park, which marked the location of the state’s first capitol, but was moved several feet as part of a recent renovation of the urban square. // Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library

Boy Wonder

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John DeLorean with His Automobile

Shifty Engineering

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all aboard The first Michigan Central Railroad Depot operated along Third Street, between Fort Street and the Detroit River, from the 1840s until 1884, when a new station was built on the same site. The original structure included a passenger depot, center, and a freight terminal, left. // Artist unknown, etching from "History of Detroit and Michigan" by Silas Farmer

Deriding the Rails

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