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In larger cities, automobile rows stretched as long as a mile, chock-full of automobile dealerships with their neon ablaze, service stations with rotating signs, and parts stores that made it possible to work on the cars you bought three doors down.
By no means were automobile rows relegated to big cities, however. Pretty much every locale across the country had its own smaller version of concentrated auto-related businesses. Some, like Pittsburgh, even had factories or assembly plants anchoring their automobile rows.
And then, from the Fifties through the Eighties, a confluence of factors led to the wholesale dispersal of automobile rows.
What town are you from, and what was its auto culture like?
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