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Mr.Pushbutton wrote:
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bkazmer wrote:
Thanks for the great summary! The city’s corruption over a long period has had consequences
I lived near Detroit for a while until very recently
There are some revitalized areas and some sad ones. Indian Village always strikes me as a clearly once nice area fallen on hard times. And I’ve been to the Packard factory. I agree with MrPB - the entrance, the emblem off the body bridge, and some of the office materials have been salvaged. The rest needs to go
The corruption took place while “the good mayor” Dennis Archer was in office.
I work in Indian Village. It hasn’t gone downhill one bit. It’s every bit as nice as it has ever been at any point in my six decades in the city.
Ooooo! Sorry Mr. Pushbutton... wow. While I agree with most of what you are saying... the statement that "
Indian Village hasn't gone downhill one bit. It's every bit as nice as it has ever been at any point in my six decades..." etc. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ohhh. Ohhh. Sorry but I'm just plain gonna have to disagree with that one. Hope you don't really believe that wildly optimistic assessment. EEEeeeek! I'm older than you and I've been in and watching that area longer. I have had friends and relatives in IV for many decades. What I see today is kinda-sorta okay... by Detroit's present standards, I guess. But to an old Detroiter very familiar with IV... sorry. Heartbreaking. Indian Village has slid a long, long way down from where it once was– even in the 1960s-70s. I know. I can still remember when Detroit's TV stars and people from Hollywood lived there.
In the 1970s, I was having holiday dinner at a friend's home there ... and we were stunned to have armed thugs BREAKING IN to the rear of the house WHILE WE WERE HAVING DINNER!!! My friend gave up and moved to California shortly thereafter. Many of the businesses along Jefferson Avenue where I used to shop are boarded up and/or gone... or too scary to go to. The boat dealers where I used to go with my grandpa are LONG gone. The beautiful ornate building on Mack Avenue that stands boarded up and abandoned for decades was once the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). It was like a palace in there. Now? OMG. There ARE several residences presently abandoned... and at least two with their front doors standing open when I last drove though a few months ago. Sad. Just a few years ago, more dear friends who are former classmates had to give up the ghost and move out of their beautiful mansion. I won't say why. They have been there at least since the 1960s.
And let's not mention Indian Village adjacent. Growing up, I attended private parochial grade school and high school less than ten blocks north of Indian Village. I was invited back to attend an anniversary memorial Mass a couple of years ago. How comforting (shocking) it was to find a uniformed private guard parked across the street from the church entrance. He was armed with what looked like an AR-15 and a Glock pistol. Ahhh. I guess that's the way to worship in the new "normal" of today's Detroit. But... same as always? Not so much.
An old Detroiter who loves Packards and who once lived both in Indian Village and in Boston-Edison areas.
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