Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne. The Longoria family dynasty in Tex-Mex music begins in the 1920s in a Mississippi cotton field, with no one in the large family of Valerio Longoria Sr. aware that a master musician was growing up in their midst.
Detroit is nicknamed motor city because it has been the center of the American automotive industry for more than a century. Henry Ford located his first assembly line in Detroit. Detroit was the key hub for auto manufacturing for much of the 20th Century.
The road to this Motor City start-up began with a simple idea: We wanted to manufacture in the United States, recalled Heath Carr, chief executive of Shinola, the maker of Detroit-built watches and bicycles.(Yep, the company derived its name from the World War II phrase, You don't know s--- from Shinola.).The new Shinola, which bought the rights to the name but doesn't have anything to do with the old shoe polish company, has been in business for about 2Â½ years.It currently has more than 100 employeesâ75 of whom are in Detroit, where the company's precision watches and bicycles are assembled.he road to this Motor City start-up began with a simple idea: We wanted to manufacture in the United States, recalled Heath Carr, chief executive of Shinola, the maker of Detroit-built watches and bicycles.