Reply #10: The Ambassador Bridge Was Privately Built Starting in 1927 [View All]

[Demeter]

Neither state, federal or local governemnt did anything except fight it.

http://www.ambassadorbridge.com/history/construction.html



It was completed Nov. 11, 1929, and it has been in operation ever since. That was back when American industry meant something, and B School graduates DIDN'T run the world into the ground. It's owners survived the Great Depression, which started three weeks before the Bridge opened, bad cables which had to be replaced, competition from the Windsor Tunnel, WWII and confiscatory taxes. It was a family business, in a way.

I have crossed it many times, and marvelled, but it is a true monument to times we must ressurrect, or this country will die.