Rosie the Riveter factory gets reprieve
Rosie the Riveter once worked in Michigan factory that a museum founder wants to preserve. The deadline to save the Rosie the Riveter factory has been pushed back from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1.
Part of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant is shown at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township, Mich.,in July. Dennis Norton, founder of the Yankee Air Museum, has raised $5 million of the $8 million in donations he needs to save part of the factory.
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YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich.
A group looking to save part of the Detroit-area factory where聽Rosie聽the Riveter聽once worked has been given another deadline extension to raise the necessary cash.
Yankee Air Museum founder Dennis Norton tells he now has until Nov. 1 to raise the remaining $3 million to preserve a portion of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant. The Save the Bomber campaign has raised $5 million.
The trust set up to oversee properties owned by a pre-bankruptcy General Motors confirms the museum has been given additional time. The museum previously had an Oct. 1 deadline.
Rose Will Monroe worked at the plant. Her role as聽Rosie聽the聽Riveter聽in promotional films persuaded American women to take jobs during World War II.