A Rachel Barnhart blog from 2012 - with notes from Henry Clune - like this: More than a few us will be reflecting on the company’s legacy. Henry Clune, a former Democrat and Chronicle reporter, wrote “Main Street Beat” in 1947. Yesterday, I shared his resonating words on Rochester. Here’s what he had to say about Kodak and George Eastman: …there is a feeling that if the great plant of the Eastman Kodak Company were removed from the city’s environs a sign might be erected on the station platform, “This was Rochester.” But the remote possibility of this tragic circumstance is rarely openly expressed. and this........... Eastman fought hard for a city manager style of government, believing it would remove partisan politics from City Hall. …the ideal of a nonpartisan city government was only briefly attained with the adoption of Eastman’s cherished plan. Today politics are as rampant in the affairs of the City Hall and the municipality is much less efficiently administered… therochesterian/2012/02/26/main-street-beat-part-2-george-eastman/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:16:46 +0000
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