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To: raptor22

I first traveled to downtown Detroit on business in 1992 to visit a company (a tape duplicator) that was right next to the Ford HQ. I got off on the freeway and drove down the ramp and then to the company. I had never seen an American city so dilapidated and run down as I did that day.


3 posted on 07/19/2013 3:51:46 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
I first traveled to downtown Detroit on business in 1992 to visit a company (a tape duplicator) that was right next to the Ford HQ."

The one and only time I was in Detroit was to visit a National Guard facility (for work purposes, circa 1995).

After leaving the interstate, we traversed a few dozen blocks of dilapidated houses with a couple of denizens out and about.

The Armory had serious fencing with concertina wire atop it. Across the street was a church that was probably very nice in 1937. It had a huge tree growing out of the broken stained glass window in front.

The whole thing was very creepy and I was glad we made the suburbs before nightfall.

Can only imagine what that area looks like today.

20 posted on 07/19/2013 5:37:16 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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