i attended both flint central and southwestern high skoos
Posted on 04/07/2015 8:18:57 AM PDT by rktman
In all, 17 service pistols and shotguns belonging to Flint police are officially listed as stolen, while another 22 guns used by Flint police are listed as lost or missing -- including a sub-machine gun and a short-barreled shotgun.
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What a guy!
and he was an Eagle Scout too.
Williams gunsight.
Why weren’t all these case prosecuted in the first place??
Ok now I can picture it. Flint Carman High. My father worked 2nd shift at Buick plant 31.
Is this Mayberry....WOW.
Flint, where Detroiters fear to tread.
The last time I visited the city was in 1989 for my Dad’s funeral.
I noted on the one trip through town,,that the doors of what had been the finest hotel in town in decades past...had been boarded up and chained shut!
the house my dad paid ten thousand dollars for in 1952 was at last look...on the net...for sale.. for FIVE grand.
thats progress!
My mother and most of her family settled in in Flint and surrounds when the emigrated from England in the early 1900s. I visited several times in the ‘50s. I wasn’t too impressed. Mom graduated from Flint Central in 1940.
The last time I was there was in 1978 when I drove her back from Washington State to visit what was left of the family. Flint had turned into something that was hard to describe. That was just before my cousin was murdered. I’ve never been back.
Yes The Durant! Very sad state of affairs, indeed.
I wonder if it was a "Tommy" gun?
Prolly MP 5
It probably was. I remember as a kid (I’m 61) the local police department (Central Mo.) had (Tommy) guns, which makes me wonder if they still have them locked up somewhere.
He is for the most part an embarrassment to most of us from Michigan, let alone Flint. Buick City, 70 or so years of democrat leadership has almost destroyed the city.
You still can.......but at 68, I doubt you could pedal fast enough.
Or the strange tale of the Genesee Towers.
Tallest building in town when I lived there, was virtually empty by the late 90’s after Genesee Bank, it’s prime tenant, had gone away via a series of bank mergers.
It was sold to an Indian businessman for $500,000, who did not keep up on the maintenance. By the mid 00’s large chunks of concrete began falling from the upper floors, and the city had to close several streets around it’s base.
As it was increasingly a safety hazard, the city used eminent domain to take the building and condemn it. They paid the Indian businessman the $500,000 he had paid for it a few years earlier.
“Hold on!” shouted the businessman, “you have my assessment set at $5 million. That’s what my building is worth. Pay me!”
After a multi-year court battle the Michigan Supreme Court eventually agreed. Except that the city of Flint did not have five million dollars to give him. Everyone in town got an additional property tax bill, called the Genesee Towers Assessment, to pay off the judgment.
After several years of dickering over what to do with it (at one point they held a contest...winning entry was “convert it into an arts center”....a 13 story arts center in the middle of Flint, Michigan?”) it was brought down via controlled demolition during Christmas Week of 2013. Taking the $5 mil. investment of the citizens of Flint with it.
Such a pity. It was a fine example of Soviet post-Stalinist architecture.
amazing indeed.
Thank you.
a architectural travesty it is!
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