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>> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america. it speaks of those industrial-age dreams of an endlessly glorious future. the people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> they were. >> they were looking at a new rome and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. ♪ ♪ >> maybe the worm started to turn here. the packard automotive plant. opened in 1903, it was considered the most advanced facility of its kind anywhere in the world. huge. epically proportioned. i mean 3.5 million square feet. now, one man lives here. al hill. >> my name's alan hill. welcome to my home....

That guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of feral hippies, older black folks, a couple of white folks and arabs. but this is 14 square m...

That guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile, frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. there were like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went, they took their money, they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for awhile, and then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of hippies and older black folks, a couple white folks, some arabs. but this is 140 square miles. so...

That was rubber. that guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile, frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. there were like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went, they took their money, they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for awhile, and then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of hippies and older black folks, a couple white folks, some arabs. but this is 140...

This was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before. >> it was insane. and this is when it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went, they took their money, they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. and then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of ferrell hippies and older black folks, a couple white folks and arabs. but this is 140 square miles. so you're going to get gr...