I'm Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids, a podcast show featuring history stories told from a biblical worldview. Welcome to another special episode of Real Cool History for Kids, Abandon abandoned places of the world.

In our last two episodes I told you that there are thousands of abandoned cities, towns, homes, factories, hospitals, military outposts, and every other kind of man-made place you can imagine.

Each one is a fading picture of what once was.

So far, our explorations of abandoned places has taken us to a creepy abandoned military hospital in Germany and to an

abandoned city in northern Ukraine.

Today's exploration is going to take us deep into the jungles of Northwestern Brazil, the largest country in South America. It might help to pause this episode and find it on a world map or globe.

When you have found it, come back and join me here.

For this episode, we are going to be traveling back in time to the 1920s.

Before we go explore our featured abandoned place though,

I want to introduce you to a man named Henry Ford. Mr.

Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company that is still around today. There are millions of Ford vehicles owned by Americans.

Henry Ford not only began the Ford Company, he is credited for changing how cars were produced.

You see, before Henry Ford's assembly lines that could make mass production of cars a reality,

automobiles were made one by one, crafted by hand, which of course took a lot of time and made them so expensive that most people could not afford them. The invention of an affordable family car changed America's culture forever. Soon American families would be bumping along the rough country roads and a sturdy Ford model T.

The important invention of the assembly line automobile making machinery made it easier to build

cars because each worker had only one or two tasks to do. They could do a lot more in one day than if they had to build the whole car.

Henry Ford was proud of his ability to produce so many American-made cars, but he was having a problem.

The price of rubber for his car's tires,

well, it was being driven higher and higher by the Asian rubber manufacturers.

Mr Ford wanted to produce his own materials for his car's tires.

In the 1920s, Mr Ford stepped out to fulfill his dream of establishing his own company colony deep in the

jungles of South America.

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