[FlyVet]

Detroit was always rough. I have an uncle who grew up there during the Depression. He said they used to have gang wars over paper boxes. You could get a penny or two for them. That's how bad it was. Of course, they weren't shooting each other back then, just beating the living tar out of each other.

[tiamat]

When I think now of the places I used to go as a kid, I shudder. I do believe I would enter my daughte into a convent if I found out she went some of the places *I* used to!

Got off at the wrong bus-stop once and got lost in the Cass Corridor after dark....wonder I made it out unscathed!

Tia

[viaveritasvita]

I remember staying overnight with my aunt (a million years ago). My soon-to-be uncle showed up at 2AM tapping on the bedroom window. He was all bloodied from a mini-riot at a factory where one fellow died from a head-bashing with a metal pipe. I was a child and this is all I remember of it.

Also, my first boyfriend's father was killed because his company refused to go Teamster and his truck blew up one morning when he started the engine.