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Belle Isle is located in the middle of the Detroit River. Use to Be a beautiful place, had its own deer population (no hunting)lots of woods with paths to walk. Picnic grounds all over the place, next to the river. I think it was about 7 miles long and the mounted division had one of its many barns there, also private riding stables. The aquarium was quite large and when my kids were little (in the 60’s) it was still a nice place, but went to hell, no zoo anymore, the beautiful landscape around the arboretum was like something you'd see at an old english manor home...its sad that most of that is gone. The isle is still there but don't know if many people go there anymore.

You’ve seen those videos and pics of San Francisco from the 20’s or 30’s? That city was nothing like SF today.