The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and O...
Esterholm, Jeff
The last good time in the Great Lakes region, the so-called Third Coast gouged into the Upper Midwest of America, was in the shipbuilding era of the two world wars. But even in 1941, in Port Nicollet, Wisconsin, a certain taint grew and spread. It was a port city: sketchy men, fresh-faced boys, salesmen with their sample cases, able-bodied seamen. Always passing through. Occasionally, the locals glimpsed opportunity, but, just as quickly, it w...