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Hiroshima vs Detroit -- 64 years later
9/25/2009
| VANITY
Posted on 09/26/2009 5:38:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PICTURES OF HIROSHIMA CIRCA 1945



DETROIT IN THE LATE 40's and EARLY 50's


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HIROSHIMA TODAY





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DETROIT TODAY









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Who the hell won the war!
TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: bluezones; detroit; hiroshima; michigan; urban
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To: sushiman
In my area you can't even get a building permit for a single family home unless you have 2 acres,or more, of land.
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posted on
09/27/2009 6:44:21 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: goat granny
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Correct analysis and brilliant articulation of this process!!!
Thanks! :-)
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posted on
09/27/2009 9:10:08 AM PDT
by
hiredhand
(Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
To: hiredhand
If anybody has read this far, I'm certain I've offended you in one way or another. Only the hardcore blind. I think your about page should be required reading. Thank you.
To: MurrietaMadman
I'm honored that you would say such a thing. I review that page every month or so, and it's still RELEVANT. So I leave it! :-)
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posted on
09/27/2009 12:18:57 PM PDT
by
hiredhand
(Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
To: GeronL
"I hear it was a grand city once. Now its just sad. The abandoned portion of Detroit is larger in area than San Francisco... so I hear." At one time, Detroit was the grand American city and rivaled New York as the power center of the country. I don't know anything about Buffalo, but the other two "great" Lake Erie cities - Toledo and Cleveland - were really tremendous places to live, work and raise families.
I believe that the Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland symphonies all pre-date 1900. And, all three cities were at one time, tremendous incubators for art & music as well as home to some of America's strongest and most diverse companies. The 1960s were the beginning of the end. Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland never really recovered from those troubled times.
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:50:34 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: OldDeckHand
They obviously need higher taxes. /sarc
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:53:56 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(meow)
To: SeekAndFind
My sister just forwarded a similar “64 years later” e mail
to me, it having been forwarded to her by a friend>
I’m glad I google the title, because the first thing that came up was this freerepublic thread. Interestingly , virtually ALL the pix are different, and my sister’s thread didn’t include any pictures of “Old” Detroit.
And lacked the ‘kicker’ line about “who won the war”.
To: pennyfarmer
so all detroit needs is “dictatorships and religious extremism”?
To: SeekAndFind
To: pennyfarmer
Detroit—what religious extremism? Do you mean the Mooslems taking over?
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posted on
08/08/2010 2:39:45 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(But now, he that has a moneybag take it; without a sword let him sell his garment, and buy one.)
To: eleni121
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posted on
08/08/2010 3:52:52 PM PDT
by
pennyfarmer
(Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/11/2011 2:39:17 PM PDT
by
JoanVarga
(To vote for a politician is much like being an accomplice to a crime. -J.V.)
To: SeekAndFind
Got pinged to this from another thread. Bump to the top. It’s worth it.
To: preacher
For a video tour of Detroit go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_vDOrqOOQ
Thanks for the link. I thought it was odd that the (foreign) film-makers appear to blame Detroit's destruction on "globalization." But the fact is, Detroit wasted away because it refused to globalize, refused to change at all. The unions liked the unsustainable system too much. First the car companies, and finally the government itself. The city just collected taxes and padded its friends until the producers ran away and the money ran out.
The marvel is only how a corrupt little game where one entity is protected at the expense of the othersunionscan fail to adapt before other people's money stops coming in. The process took a long time, until there's barely anyone left to turn out the lights.
To: SeekAndFind
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08/06/2013 11:39:22 AM PDT
by
YourAdHere
(Boycott Starbucks.)
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