1:03:02
And, only six months after opening...
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Auto World closed due to a lack of visitors.
1:03:08
I guess it was like
expecting a million people a year...
1:03:10
to go to New Jersey to Chemical World,
or to Valdez, Alaska, to Exxon World.
1:03:16
Some people just don't like to celebrate
human tragedy while on vacation.
1:03:20
It started to get looking like Toronto...
1:03:23
upper middle-class
black and white people...
1:03:25
and everybody was dressed nice.
1:03:27
We thought it would be
the entertainment center of the county...
1:03:31
in all truth.
That may be naive, but that was my goal.
1:03:34
Let's make it the entertainment center...
1:03:36
so that everybody wants to be
in downtown Flint.
1:03:39
We're going to have
entertainment and art.
1:03:42
It's going to be very cultural,
it going to be very upbeat.
1:03:45
Somebody said something to me,
and maybe it's true.
1:03:48
They said, ''Look, Maxine...
1:03:52
''you can't make Palm Beach
out of the Bowery.
1:03:56
''You want to make Palm Beach,
you got to go there.''
1:04:00
Half of Flint was now receiving
some form of government welfare.
1:04:05
Meanwhile, Roger Smith
gave himself a $2,000,000 raise.
1:04:08
GM lobbyist Tom Kay tried to explain.
1:04:11
I don't understand your connection,
that by saying...
1:04:14
because General Motors was born here,
it owes more to this community.
1:04:18
- I don't agree with that.
- Why not?
1:04:20
Because I just don't agree with it.
I believe it's a corporation.
1:04:23
It's in business to make a profit.
It does what it has to do to make a profit.
1:04:27
That's the nature of corporations
or companies.
1:04:30
It's why people take their own money
and invest it in a business...
1:04:35
so they can make money.
1:04:36
It isn't to honor their hometown.