Meet the American who created highway rest areas, Allan Williams, small-town engineer [FOX News]
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The Motor City ignited the roar of the 1920s. Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, each in Detroit, Michigan , emerged as the world's three biggest automakers early in the Roaring '20s. Customers needed somewhere to go to make their engines purr – and a safe, convenient way to get there. The job fell upon the shoulders of small-town Michigan visionaries who paved the way for the automobile to leave the city and become synonymous with the open American highway. Allan Williams, the first-ever highway engineer in rural Ionia County, proved perhaps the most influential among them. He conceived and created America's first roadside rest area in 1929. The idea took off faster than a big-block Motown muscle car 40 years later. The highway rest stop, however, was only the most visible of the many contributions Williams made to the speed, safety and convenience of the American highway system we all benefit from today. "He was living at a time when he had the ability to really do some
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