[tiamat]

BTW, Doc,

I'm not blowing you off.

There isn't enough money in the world to get ME to teach in detroit!

My daughter's godfather went to Cass Tech. The place he lived was so dangerous that he carried a meat-hook to and from school and was never without a knife. He was a good Catholic boy at the time!

Even back when I was a kid, we all knew there were places you DID not go if you were white! ( If you wanted to live)

Tia

[WL-law]

This will make a Detroit native cry:
http://detroityes.com/

[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.

[chuckwalla]

I went to the jr high right next to Cooley high. Fights everywhere. You didn't go into the bathroom unless you wanted to fight. That was when I lived at Finkel and Livernois.
That area was a war zone. You learned to look down streets before poking your head out.
I transfered out to Mettetal the other side of town.
I took two busses each way.