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Automobile Anniversary

December 2024
1min read

In the freedom and flexibility it offers, the automobile is quintessentially American. In our cities and towns though, few could claim that the change from downtowns bustling with residents and commerce to deserted sidewalks fronting blank-faced office buildings and parking garages is one for the better.

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