Hah! I got a sardonic chuckle out of how you wrote part of that... though you will be asked to show driving related 'papers' if you speed thru most of the Pointes, so I make sure I'm right at the speed limit!
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Uh... Am I the only one who noticed something funny in the picture with that article? It was staged right? Funny Lol!
It looks like there are three sheds. Pity. That means I can't use Monty Python - Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson.
Well I had to run up to Pointe Hardware, so I took a stroll through the GP Farmer's Market. Had a couple of golabki for lunch, bought a few items. Atmosphere is relaxed. The Farmer Barns now have sunflowers painted on them. People were sitting outside @ the restaurants, eating, drinking, talking, texin'. Nice vibe. Several of the vendors are African-American, as were shoppers in the crowd. Thought about these two threads, and how narrow minded some people are.
They've already figured out how to get around the barns?? And now they're selling things there?
And with this free trolley, there's no telling where they will go next.
Boy, this sure backfired on the Pointes.
...Either that or it is working exactly as planned in drawing all sorts of people to the Kercheval business district in an attempt to revitalize the sleepy area.
I copied this from the comments section following the Det News article. Having lived on the other side of the Barns in my youthful formative years I remember the days before blight touched the Jeff Chalmers area and these comments pretty much sums up my personal views on the issue...People should get on with the livin already and try and enjoy GPPs efforts to breathe life into the first few hundred yards of its community!
"One thing people seldom mention -- they probably don't have the eyewitness historical perspective -- is that before the 1967 riots started people fleeing, and before the 20-year reign of Coleman Young, the east side of Detroit actually did look like Grosse Pointe. At any given point along the border, the houses on either side were comparable, and the main signal to tell you where you were was the way the teenage boys combed their hair. Now it's impossible to see how similar the neighborhoods once were. It's one curious aspect of the American "social justice" mentality that a community that destroys itself is deemed a victim, while a community that preserves itself is stridently criticized for it."
Here is that misunderstanding of the problem again. Detroit's population started to decline in the early 1950s and the city had lost over 300,000 residents before the 1967 riots. The east side of Detroit may not have looked emptied and abandoned like it does now, but emptiness and abandonment was well on its way there with or without the riots.