What was the deal? What

Discovery Channel Documentary What was the deal? What has happened to change the world so? I praised my twentieth birthday in 1950, not long after my Dad passed away on his 60th birthday from leukemia. The town of Piedmont, Alabama had developed from a country intersection group called "Empty Stump" in the mid 1840's to be named later as "Griffen's Creek" with an enrolled post office by that name. It was named a brief span later by a land buyer as "Cross Plains" and bore that name and mail station until 1888 when it authoritatively got to be known as Piedmont, signifying "foot of the mountains".

It had developed by 1950 from several families at "Empty Stump", to a clamoring little town of somewhere in the range of 4,500. At the time, there was a substantial Standard-Coosa-Thatcher turning plant, a bustling cotton gin, two motion picture theaters, somewhere in the range of 8 or 10 home claimed supermarkets, two handyman shops, three 5 and dime stores, a few bistros, 3 medicate stores, three doctors, two banks and various different organizations, all flourishing and living serenely. A portion of the shippers really turned out to be somewhat well off.

The post WW2 years (1946 to 1950) were years of progress. The cost of the war finishing in 1945 and now the start of the Korean war had brought on a blast of assembling and expanded wages that were impossible. Swelling was jumping upwards however individuals truly wouldn't fret since wages were additionally climbing. With the exception of the old young men who were passing on in Korea, the nation was in a time of good times and development of about everything.

Be that as it may, something happened in Piedmont some place around 1949, the principal huge chain supermarket opened in the town. Up until that time, practically everything around the local area except for the assembling firms and one of the theaters, were possessed by neighborhood families. In any case, here comes a Quik-Chek Grocery, a present day serve-yourself supermarket, of the Winn-Dixie association from Florida. It stayed for various years as one by one the family stores dropped out. Until at last there were just two markets left. One venturesome trader got to be associated with a different store supplier and turned into a solid contender for the then named Winn-Dixie store, which in the long run got to be unrewarding and was sold to a person. These two stores remain and are exceptionally aggressive with each other and with huge chain stores in neighboring towns.

With enhanced state and district street frameworks which likewise gave customers of apparel and other stock access to vast retail locations in the dress, equipment and different lines thus those stores started enduring and shutting. Huge affixes and combinations kept on expanding year by year until a large portion of the family possessed organizations vanished. Of the two banks nearby, one changed possession several times and is presently a branch of one of the biggest saving money organizations in the country. The other is still home possessed yet has, itself, ventured into a few branches in this province. The vast majority of the towns diners are fast food chain stores despite the fact that 2 or 3 little home claimed ones remains and one home possessed establishment holder of an expansive chain bistro.

A couple of months after I turned 20, I was drafted into the armed force (April 1951), and saw little of Piedmont for the following two years. In any case, despite the fact that the home possessed organizations were vanishing, I didn't give it much thought and was satisfied to see the change in stock choice, aggressive costs, et cetera, accessible through the chain stores. At that point with the appearance of K-Mart, trailed by Walmart, I abruptly started to understand that you never knew any individual who possessed a business any longer. All worked for some vast organization. When one sets aside the opportunity to stop and consider it, it is completely stunning what change occurred in America in two short decades. From around 1945 to 1965, it just turned into an alternate world. Pitiful, as it were, however essentially a wonders normal in a dynamic culture, a developing populace and high innovative advances. Consider the populace increment:

In 1950, the total populace was 2,556,000,053. In only sixty years, 201