He is the author of are we there yet . the american automobile past, present, and driverless. Its available for signing at the conclusion of the program. Please, without further ado, join me in welcoming him this evening. Thank you so much. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I think everybody for being i especially amanda told me that the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. So i feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my a game to take that seriously. And to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. The reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment where, as some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon. But at the end of th
Area, so there were a lot of shipping routes that could be taken. He also had the Steel Industry here, which is very important for the Automobile Industry to have the steel, and also a lot of lumber, and cleveland had also been known as a town where a lot of care errors theiages were built, so carriage industry was moving into that Automobile Industry, and that allowed cleveland to take that on. Alexander went and was a scottish immigrant who came to , andland to be with family he had grown up around the shipping yards of scotland, and he knew he wedded to be involved andndustry in some way, when he got her to cleveland, he started a bicycle company, the bicycles, and he learned very quickly that to sell your bicycles, you had to prove them, and he became one of the greatest icicles in the country, and his bicycles sold well, because he was known to race with his likes and win with his when hend he decided got into the Automobile Industry to do the same thing, to them and race them. In
Manufacturing center in the late 1800s through the depression, combining its location on the water with the coming of the railroads. Today it is ohios most second populous city. With the help of Charter Communications, as cleveland prepares to host the convention, we take a look back at the history. We visit the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum to find out by it lost the distinction of the motor city. Became the city where highend automobiles were built. There was a lot of wealth in the the. So, the vehicles being built here were primarily vehicles for the wealthy. Happens, find out what music and politics collide at the rock n roll hall of fame. Congress put together the list of the filthy 15. Kind of public enemies number one through 15 in terms of making the case that rock n roll has to be controlled, censored. It led to warning labels being put on cds. These talk to artist, songs, they were not that outrageous. Plus we take a look at to pass conventions in cleveland. In the rear book
Reporter in 1924 when it hosted its first Republican National convention, cleveland was a boomtown. Since then, not so much. Oh, the Cuyahoga River. Goes smoking through my genes but now things are looking up. Cleveland, its on fire, and, no, im not talking about the river, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a notsosuperb singer. The actress is meryl streep, and shes been talking to anthony mason. The story was helped by my singing really badly in this. Reporter in her new film, meryl streep plays the reallife Florence Foster jenkins and the earsplitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold out Carnegie Hall. So many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. Well, thats a tragedy actually. Reporter later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldnt sing. Pauley for the record, the band known as chicago can sing very, very well, and theyve been at it for half a cen
Reporter in 1924 when it hosted its first Republican National convention, cleveland was a boomtown. Since then, not so much. Oh, the Cuyahoga River. Goes smoking through my genes but now things are looking up. Cleveland, its on fire, and, no, im not talking about the river, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a notsosuperb singer. The actress is meryl streep, and shes been talking to anthony mason. The story was helped by my singing really badly in this. Reporter in her new film, meryl streep plays the reallife Florence Foster jenkins and the earsplitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold out Carnegie Hall. So many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. Well, thats a tragedy actually. Reporter later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldnt sing. Pauley for the record, the band known as chicago can sing very, very well, and theyve been at it for half a cen