What city is known as tire City?
In the 1910s, Akron doubled in population, making it the nation’s fastest-growing city. A long history of rubber and tire manufacturing, carried on today by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, gave Akron the nickname Rubber Capital of the World. While most people are aware that Akron is the home of two of the country’s first tire manufacturers, BFGoodrich and Goodyear, few are aware that Akron was in the forefront of police technology at the turn of the 19th century.