Flagpole atop the American Motors Corporation Engineering building

Creator

American Motors Corporation

Summary

• Ed C. Werner and Sanio P. Sandona posing with the flagpole atop the AMC Engineering building located on 60th Street between 23rd and 24th Avenues. After the building’s demolition in 1990, the flagpole was donated to the Kenosha County Historical Society and installed on the Southport Lighthouse property.
• In 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation joined with Hudson Motor Car Company to create the American Motors Corporation. Due to the drop in oil prices in the 1980s, the demand for AMC products was reduced and buyers went with foreign models that were less expensive. From the lack of income, AMC went downhill financially and was bought out by the Chrysler Corporation in 1987.