Horseless Carriages Come and Go, With Model T Just Down the Road
The History of Joliet – Chapter 29 By John Whiteside of The Herald News (used with permission) Submitted by Nancy Vargo Horse shoes just couldn’t compete in the new century with those dreamers and their horseless carriages. By John WHITESIDE of The Herald News In 1900, business was booming for the Phoenix Horse Shoe Company in Joliet. But the beginning of the end was already in sight for horses. Horses were being replaced by horsepower in the horseless carriage. While Henry FORD and Ransom Eli OLDS were dreaming about an automobile industry in Detroit, George ELRICK, Wilbur DAYTON and others … Read more
