Brockton Revisited

Images of America: Massachusetts

by James E. Benson, Linda M. Balzotti (Foreward)

Brockton, the "City of Champions," earned this title through its fame for championship sports teams and its most famous hometown sports hero, undefeated boxing heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. The city was home to many more champions, ranging from great shoe industry barons, such as George E. Keith and William L. Douglas, to the immigrants who worked behind the shoe bench and the entrepreneurs who followed the shoe industry, making Brockton a world center of shoe manufacturing. Established as a city in 1881, Brockton was progressive and proud as the 20th century dawned. Brockton Revisited takes readers through the city's pinnacle of prestige and power and an idyllic time in history in the 1950s and 1960s. Many photographs were taken by Stanley Bauman; they tell the story of those fun-filled postwar days and chronicle Brockton's history.

130 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 2012

Reviews

[William Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interested book on Brockton, Mass, It's people, buildings, and growth over the years. It also gives me some things to do more research on.