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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 28sweep on January 17, 2003, 12:29:59 PM
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Detroit....it wasn't always like this. Take a look at this wonderful website and see what Detroit used-to be.......This website is just amazing.....
http://detroityes.com/home.htm
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Wasn't Detroit the setting for the "Robocop" films because it lended itself to being a cesspool of crime and immorality in a city rotting away in its own industrial pollution and empty warehouses?
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No it was Leeds...
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I'm looking through the site now. The Studebaker site might make for interesting apartment complexes, depending on the surrounding neighborhood, if the money was there to correct the roof and renovate the interior. The exterior design is certainly more appealing than the Motor City Industrial Park site (the enormity of which is quite staggering). The Rouge complex deserves to be torn asunder, if for no other reason than as a big step in cleaning up the river.
What was Hudson's? A department store, or was it related to the Hudson automobile somehow?
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New Orleans. Police force was riddle with corruption a few years ago.
Shuckins
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I remember the "Kentucky Fried Movie" where they sentanced a guard to "Detroit" for failing in his duties. They just killed the other two, but wanted to make a special point with this one.
AKDejaVu
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Yes, it's sad to see the decline of Detroit. I'm only 21, so it's been failing for as long as I can remember. But I always feel proud when I hear about how it's contributed to American society. Unfortunately, I still don't feel safe down there. I have cop friends who absolutely refuse to go down there... even in the good sections near the waterfront and stadiums.
I hope that someday it can turn itself around.
And yes, Robocop was set in Detroit. Draw whatever conclusion you want from that.
Good site though. Lots of cool historic buildings in Detroit. Too bad they're now just monuments to urban decay.
Edit: Hudson's was the main upper-end department store in the Detroit area (don't know what other regions it covered). I always thought it was a big chain. It was bought by Marshall Field's a few years ago. Their biggest, oldest store in downtown Detroit was imploded a few years ago with a lot of publicity. It had been, for a long time, "the" reason to go shopping downtown (at least that's what my parents say).
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I still have a lot of good memories there...
Everynow and then I read something in the paper about how the rock monsters are stealing the guardrails off of I-94 and selling them at scrap metal yards, or killing each other for $150 "felony shoes" or winter jackets, and I wonder why I occasionally miss that place.
I guess I'm just a homey. Thats why I named my boat "TigerTown." :)
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No offense, but I think you might find worse if you look outside your borders. Maybe look at Lagos, Nigeria, maybe some of the mean streets in cities in Africa. How about a stroll down the street anywhere in the Ivory Coast? Actually, you dont even need to go that far, would you dare walk alone through most of Mexico City? How about, wander away from the main center of the tourist areas in Cancun?
Detroit, by US standards is not a garden spot, but when compared to many other places in the world, it is pretty close to a happy happy place.
dago
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No offense taken Dago, I agree with you. There's definately worse. It's just that it's not 10 miles from my house. And sad to hear the stories from your relatives about how it was in the good ol' days, and then realize that there's not much of that good ol' stuff left for my generation.
But by 75 percent of the world's standards, Detroit probably ain't too bad. There's food on the store shelves.
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Go read a book... Detroit in the fall of 1967. This ain't new.
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he did say "Modern World" ....
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The Ultimate story happened in 2001 and I had tears coming down my eyes for almost 10 minutes. Boss was pissed too, as I almost pissed my pants. 3 guys decided to try and steal a garage for aluminum siding.
http://www.detnow.com/news/0107231203.html
Karaya2
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Leeds? I didn't know there was a Leeds in the US. I live about 30 mins away from it - it's crap. I hope they made a better job of it in the US.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Go read a book... Detroit in the fall of 1967. This ain't new.
I know what happened in Detroit in 1967. And in 1943. Unfortunately, the de facto solution to those race riots was white flight, leaving detroit around 80 percent black. It's just been left to rot as the suburbs flourish.
That's what's sad. Not saying that modern Detroit is that much worse than other cities, in the US or elsewhere.
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LOL Masherbrum. Never heard of that incident.
Products of the Detroit public schools, maybe? <---- I'll go kick myself for saying that now. :D
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Sad really.
On a brighter note, the downtown area of Chicago (Taylor street and vicinity) seems to be going just the opposite direction. Very nice renewal projects and high priced homes.
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I drove from Toronto to Detroit once for a Jays game. On the way back we took a wrong turn and ended up in a really nasty looking area. We locked the doors, rolled up the windows and didn't ever come to a full stop until we got outta there. Freaked us both out.
But I think the title of this thread is not fair to Detroit. There is alot worse in the world today and although I didn't see them I'm sure there are some nice parts of town.
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I had to go downtown for some charity work at a Cathloic mission once. The priests sat us down and gave us the rules:
1) Never look into anybodys eyes-always look away.
2) Never eat at a public place in the area.
3) Never attempt to drive after dark.
4) Never ask anybody for directions if lost in the area.
The second day there a man scaled the bob-wire fences and stole a priests car in broad day-light. A few days later some of the "residents" at the mission were busted for selling gun-silencers. Once-I was so hungry I went into a tacobell with a friend. You placed your order behind bullet proof-glass and your food was sent through a carosel. I asked the manager about the glass and he said they got robbed once per week without the glass and now only once per month with it-and usually just the customers now!!!!!!!!!!!