If americans do, as i say embrace the automobile culturally, how do they respond when by the 1920s and really it was it wasnt million the 1920s where it wasnt until the 1920s where there was a National Human cry over unavoidable automobile accidents that are killing individuals and particularly pedestrians who have nothing to do with the freedoms of driving. Others were paying for the liberties of these drivers. When the car was first introduced, the rule was very different, and the reaction to those rules were very different. And so the study looks at 900 to 1940 1900 to 1940, a period of time where there werent uniform rules for driving and universal signs for speed limits and grade crossings and what have you. And so that created in a sense a National Dialogue over the difference between our love for automobiles and the social responsibility we have as drivers of automobiles. In the first internal Combustion Engine automobile, it dates back to the 1870s in germany. And as a result,
Kids, perhaps making a union job making good pay. That kind of family was very common in the 1950s, and its fallen apart. I feel like ive watched the slow motion disintegration. The reason its fallen apart is number one our economy has changed. And all those great factory jobs theyre either moved overseas or disappeared into computer chips. Meanwhile, ideas about marriage and having children have changed so its more acceptable to live with somebody, have a kid outside of marriage. And what we see today is a generation of young adults saying with a High School Degree but no Fouryear College degree. The people who would have taken those working class jobs if they had them, we see that generation kind of drifting because the jobs that supported those kinds of families have really gone away. And we see a large number of young adults in this country who seem unconnected unconnected through job unconnected through marriage unconnected through Church Attendance drifting away from the collegee
The bridge and they share with the bridge endurance, and they love fact that the bridge was so beautiful and to work on something thats beautiful. Im sure in the time of the renaissance, probably some of those anonymous cathedral builders, those laborers who put the stones to some church or the coliseum. I mean, we knew who were the people who built the coliseum but they did something and a heavenly sense of living in that hereafter. These people work on something its finished and it goes on and on and they die or their have a lot of my age and they still look with wonderment at this bridge that gap no older. The bridge is as young as it was as and 64 and the rest of us age. What didnt age is the glory and the achievement. Thank you, joe spratt. A. Q. , gay talese. Thank you all for coming. And gay will be happy to sign copies of the bridge. [applause] would like to invite everybody to join us at the front of the museum where you can speak more with gay and joe and sam and will be sign