One of Detroit's most iconic roadside landmarks, the eight-story-tall Uniroyal tire located on the side of Interstate 94 in Allen Park, is set to turn 50 in April. While not exactly a tourist destination, the "big tire" is widely recognizable to metro Detroiters.
According to the Detroit News, "It was created as a tire-like Ferris wheel for the 1964 World's Fair in New York, providing rides to more than 2 million fairgoers. Afterward, it was disassembled and transported by 21 railroad flat cars to Allen Park, where it was reconstructed, sans gondolas, near a Uniroyal Tire Co. corporate building in 1966, according to the book "Images of America: Allen Park."
Read more in the Detroit News.
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