One of those pictures is not Detriot.
Donnington castle UK. Remodeled 1644.
Posted on 12/27/2013 8:52:40 PM PST by John Semmens
I also grew up there, when Detroit was more a full fledged, vital city. My alma mater, Cass Tech High School was torn down a few years back. There were eight floors to that high school, and elevators. The juniors in high school used to trick the gullible freshmen into buy ‘elevator passes’. There were no real passes.
I’ve heard MichiganCentralStationHenge is a big draw.
Saddest thing of all is looking through that.
Raze the place and turn it into a corn field.
Sign should be posted: years of liberal democratic rule have led to this
Excellent!
I always thought it would be funny if Romney took over the city. It would be an interesting experiment having a compentent man running the place. Then we could compare the results to obama’s time in office.
The media scorned him when he said the city will go bankrupt.
“We paid a guy $50 bucks for a three-hour tour,”
In related news, Wisconsin is spending millions of dollars to maintain vacant public school buildings rather than rent or sell the space to charter schools.
Instead of paying people for tours or throwing money at vacant buildings, I may send them my address and let them send money my way. Typical leftover of a city run by dims.
I recently watched "Detropia", a kind of documentary about the current state of decay of Detroit. It was highly rated, but kind of poorly edited, nonetheless, IMHO. One of the reasons I watched it was because it was like a travelogue of the ruins of Detroit. I could see what the destruction that socialism always causes, without having to risk getting shot.
My point is that, as usual, your posts are a brilliant refracting lens of reality. Amazing.
Thank you for the ping. It would be really funny if the reality wasn’t so sad.
LOL! Very funny, John! GREAT WORK (and a great idea…hello enterprising Detroiters)!
I grew up on the south Detroit border, Lincoln Park, lived in Detroit’s south side…east side…north side, and graduated from a Detroit university - Wayne State.
Coming back from a high school hockey game in Detroit last week, my daughter asked me if Detroit would ever come back to what it was when I was growing up. My answer: No, not in my lifetime or hers. She disagreed. Without having the same time-frame of reference (the new normal?) she sees (and so do I) some of the good things happening in Detroit. Viewing from the longer arc of time Detroit has such a long way to go to get back to where it was. Ain’t happenin’.
We are not that far removed from the greatest criminal in Detroit and Michigan history, Kwame Kilpatrick. A whole host of his enablers, sycophants, supporters are still around, many in positions of “power”(totalitarians/socialists/fascists).
Sure it does. Then call it that. The point is that the site describes itself as "Semi-News/Semi-Satire," thus implying that it is a mixture of both. One then must separate the two to appreciate the craft, which is obviously there. In a case like Detroit, sadly, there is no bright line as far as the eye can see, no matter Bing-bling there may be. I'm offering a constructive comment, in no way meant to disparage the effort.
I’ve always said they could have filmed “I am legend” in Detroit. They even have trees growing up through pavement in some places.
Good satire, John!
If I recall, Detroit was called “Paris of the West.” The “Paris of the South” was Beirut, Lebanon.
There were guided tours to devastated areas of New Orleans following Katrina.
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You’ve outdone yourself John. This is excellent!
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