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Originally Posted by Vlajos
It is mostly back office stuff in Columbus. Not super high paying, but good jobs. And as someone pointed out somewhere Columbus was Bank Ones HQ before the First Chicago NBD merger moved the HQ to Chicago.
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Not to keep diving on this one topic, but probably one of the biggest benefits to the Bank One / Chase merger for Columbus was that Jamie Dimon became the CEO of JPMC. He was Bank One's CEO in Columbus (actually he may have sat in Chicago, but the point stands that Columbus was a major Bank One location).
One thing that jumps out at me looking at the 1955 list quickly again, is just how dominated the entire list is by auto companies and auto-related industries. No wonder driving became so ingrained in our culture. All the biggest companies were making cars, getting oil/gas for cars, or making car related products.
I think from an urbanist's perspective, sometimes the narrative gets told that the post-war suburbs were responsible for our car culture, but that 'culture' had to have started far earlier than after the war if so many auto companies were already the largest businesses in the US. The USA's economic might grew right a long side the automobile.