Detroit proposed monorail system map, 1958 Size:18x18 Hamilton is quintessentially New York

Hamilton is quintessentially New York

Spreckels's business empire

with the other characters using muted greys and browns to suggest their neutrality in the Montague-Capulet feud

his successor

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Detroit proposed monorail system map, 1958 Size:18x18 Hamilton is quintessentially New YorkDetroit was not immune to the monorail craze of the 1950s and 1960s. The City of Detroit was actually planning to build an elevated monorail system even as it planned to demolish large sections of "blighted" neighborhoods for freeway construction. The freeways went through; the monorail did not. If this system looks familiar, it should: because of Detroit's unusual radial street layout, it only makes sense to use the broad avenues stretching out from