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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
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My parents moved to So CA in 1954 to get away from the cold, and to make more money...Daddy was an Aerospace Engineer and made good money all his working life. So I don't have any Childhood memories of living in Detroit...only of visiting Grandpa and Grandma who lived off Van Dyke around 5 mile road...on the back side of Detroit Airport. I remember being in the Downtown Hudsons, the Book Cadilliac Hotel, Eastern Market, Wayne State, The Henry Ford Museum etc.
...Grandpa started working for Ford in 1916 retiring in 1959, he was a Speciality Mould Maker and did alot of restoration work for the museum..
Detroit in heyday was a vibrant city that had great wealth...but has always looked to NYC for it's cultural trends (remember automobile manufacturing was the Computer industry of it's day)....My Daddys 85 year old friend from Detroit says the depression hit Detroit harder because Detroit was a one commodity town...whereas Chicago was better off because it had a diversified economy. I told him about the Detroit ruins site...
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