JohnnyDos Posted December 15, 2014 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.31 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted December 15, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/exposures-detroit-by-air-alex-maclean.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0 eidolonFIRE, Sonovabich, djMot and 2 others 5
djMot Posted December 15, 2014 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 357 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 5257 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 11146 Achievement Points: 48948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 114 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Posted December 15, 2014 That's interesting. Seems like a real opportunity for a community developer. Awards
LtLaszlo Posted December 16, 2014 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 189 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9238 Content Per Day: 1.61 Reputation: 24523 Achievement Points: 95480 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 323 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Posted December 16, 2014 Like Johnny, except I've been in the Detroit "burbs" all my life, have seen the decline as the automotive declined here. Detroit is now under 700,000 people, from 1.2 million is 1980. So those pics show half the homes gone as the result. An interesting tidbit I even only recently learned of - there has not been a grocery store in Detroit, like a Meijer, Walmart Yes, even they stay out!), Kroger, etc. for decaeds. The Eastern Market, is the only area to buy produce and such, other than small corner markets. Sad, but they would just get robbed and people shot! So residents must go to the burbs to shop. In its heyday, Detroit was a "sister" city to Chicago and much like it, other than the dependancy on the auto industry. As the Japanese cars arrived, coupled with a union that got rediculously greedy (higher cost), so sales dropped. So, here we are. Fortunately, people like Mike Illitch, owner first of Little Ceasars pizza chain and now owner of both the Tigers and the Red Wings (gotta love and repect him for that!) are trying to revive the city. He helped with getting the Tigers a new stadium and soon the Wings will have a new arena. The Lions have a fairly new stadium, as well (owned by the Ford family)! Of course, the city also has had to endure a corupt political system (mayor Kilpatric, and a few before him). But looking at all that vacant space, maybe it gets turned around with the right people, police (where's that Robocop dude, anyway?) the city can turn around. Meanwhile, I'll stay in the outskirts and visit now and again!! Leadfinger, Blackbart and JohnnyDos 3 Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted December 16, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted December 16, 2014 reminds me of simcity when your city starts sliding backwards in development
little_old_man Posted December 16, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted December 16, 2014 It reminds me a lot of where I grew up in Portsmouth Ohio only on a smaller scale. At the turn of the 20th century the town was a busy commercial hub on the Ohio river with over 100,000 people. When my parents moved there in 1963 it was down to 49,000 and when we left for California in 1977 it was around 25,000. Now I think it's somewhere less than 20,000. Growing up there I saw the steel mill close down, a major shoe manufacturer left and a uranium enrichment plant closed as well. Pretty much for the same reasons as Detroit, unions demanding higher wages until the factories said fuck you and moved overseas. All of the schools I went to as a kid are gone. Now it's mostly retired people with no place else to go and people on welfare. Lots of big beautiful victorians and estates that can be bought for cheap, but nobody around to buy them. It was a great place to grow up but it's not the same place now. Ironically Portsmouth had one of the first professional football teams called the Spartans. They moved to Detroit and became the Lions. The stadium they played in is still there and my brother played HS football there. It's sad to see how the US has gone from the manufacturing leader of the world to a nation of consumers. It's only going to get worse. LtLaszlo, JohnnyDos and eidolonFIRE 3 Awards
Leadfinger Posted December 16, 2014 Member ID: 4888 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 56 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2020 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 3795 Achievement Points: 26312 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 01/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 29, 2023 Birthday: 08/29/1962 Posted December 16, 2014 That's a great pictorial of a city I had only heard about. . . Thanks for that Mr @@JohnnyDos JohnnyDos 1 Awards
KenMan Posted December 16, 2014 Member ID: 410 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2033 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 428 Achievement Points: 10669 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/16/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2020 Birthday: 12/04/1948 Posted December 16, 2014 Great pic Johnny, my only visit was a layover at the airport Awards
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