• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: Cleveland OH was all set to become North America’s hub for continental and transatlantic airship traffic. The problem was that airships fundamentally suck, something that the Hindenburg disaster merely highlighted.

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      12 days ago

      Real late reply to this but Cleveland nearly became a hub for a lot of shit in the US, but then everyone decided Chicago and New York were cooler.

      Like the largest rail depot in the world was in Cleveland until they built a larger on in NYC. Cleveland ended up replacing that depot by building the second tallest building in the world at the time that remained the tallest building in north America outside New York until 1964.