Buddy and Lottie Moorehouse are back with another Michigan story you’ve probably driven past a hundred times. This week, it’s the Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti. You’ve heard about Rosie the Riveter and the thousands of women who kept the B-24 bombers rolling off the line. But there’s another crew that never gets the credit.
Ford needed workers small enough to squeeze inside the plane’s center wing, so he recruited little people from all over the country. Some of them had just played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz! And after their shifts, they all headed to the same bar. That’s why the door handle at Ypsi’s Tap Room is only three feet off the ground.