Thanks to Dick Richard S. Willis for dredging up this relic, a 4-minute 1951 movie about the coming Interstate Highway system through Binghamton, New York. At 2:34 there’s a pan across the original 1940s IBM headquarters building and the ANSCO photography company, which was then Kodak’s biggest competitor. My wife Tauby Warriner and I worked for a law firm and cleared deeds to the land for the Interstate Highway system in Bingotown. We worked in the courthouse, sometimes high up in the musty clock-tower dome, copying by hand deeds that went back to King’s Grants in the 17th century. So the land was acquired a few yards or a few acres at a time – making it possible for the highway system to purchase the Right-of-Way “in perpetuity,” and for the lawyers to get rich. I love the voice of this narrator and his “There will be NOOOOO ROOM for traffic jams like these in OUR future!” Nosiree!
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:16:22 +0000
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