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The home of the Ford Model T is now an abandoned factory complex along busy Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Mich., and there's not much to distinguish this place from Detroit's other industrial ruins.

But if you stop and walk up to the front of the building, you'll find a historical marker telling us that by 1925, this place churned out more than 9,000 Ford Model T's a day.

And it ends with this: "Mass production soon moved from here to all phases of American industry, and set a pattern of abundance for 20th century living."

That actually helped America's 20th century middle class take off.

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