In the 1950’s and 1960’s, Detroit was anything but what it is now. I used to take a bus to visit my aunts and uncles who lived there at the time. I took a bus with cousins into downtown Detroit to shop with them. We went to movies and had a blast in the clean and wholesome suburbs. Those were the days of Bob Segur, Mitch Ryder and Diana Ross and the Supremes. What a hellhole that place has turned into.
Youth face uphill struggle amid Detroit’s troubles
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggwJmBwTB9LR-UQjgR2KUXZ3ZdFQD9BCURQO2
About 32 percent of the city’s 900,000 residents struggle in poverty as Detroit limps through the auto industry’s collapse. Factory and manufacturing jobs are gone.
Roughly one in four working-age adults is jobless. The situation is more dire for 16- to 19-year-olds in Detroit who face an unemployment rate of 57.4 percent, according to the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, citing last year’s U.S. Census figures.
Yet all those OKies and blacks moved in during the 20s to 50s with the union following. No one was complaining in 1953 about the political leadership or unionism.
My dad grew up in Detroit, and we used to visit the grandparents and other relatives. I remember the Detroit Museum of Natural Science, or whatever its called, as being great. Got hit by a car in Detroit too. Haven't been back since the sixties.