[Sarc]

Tabs,

I can only imagine what a jewel this city once was. This afternoon, my friend (who was in town for the weekend) and I set of to to downtown to hunt for the mythical stillborn subway station that apparently exists somewhere deep underground near the intersection of Woodward/Gratiot/Grand River.
From what I hear, in the early 30's, Detroit had a fairly extensive subway system underway that apparently stopped as quickly as it started-some say the result of the depression, conspiracy buffs favor the story that it was halted by the big 3.

Interesting stuff nontheless, but on our trip down via woodward we decided to explore Palmer Woods and stumbled on a vacant house by Frank Lloyd Wright on 7 mile. This particular house was from the same era as his usonion works out in L.A. After checking out the house up close, we continued south and stumbled on the magnificent homes in Boston Edision district. Before you know it, the next street over, it's pure ghetto-making any street scene from "8 MILE" look like Beverly Hills. Of course, one of the first people we see gives us the universal sign for get the $uck out my neighborhood, whitey. Always comforting.

Anyway, we didn't get a chance to look for the subway. It was too friggen cold and there so many buildings to look at downtown since there's always a building you've never seen before.
Only, if only, I could have seen this city in the 50's.