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There are many names for the best place to swim in Detroit but my favorite is the one that the police who patrol the beach call it, "Patchouli Creek".

I didn't really understand it at the time as I was only 5 or 6 years old but I remember it very well. If you are interested in hearing about it from the perspective of a 5 year old African-American...

Wow, it's been a long time since I've chimed in here.
Mel Torme' - I'm Comin' Home Baby
http://youtu.be/Ua_ODg0FmzQ

I have been documenting this subject for a few years. It's an ongoing project and your post has inspired me to get out and update my portfolio....

http://www.ralphjones313.com/client-proofs/album/client-proofs-detroit-riverfront?p=1

Miguel Cabrera, Mikel Leshoure, Nick Fairley, and now Delmon Young. I guess aint no party like a Detroit pro athlete's party!

I LOVED George Pierrot, he gave me the travel bug.

1,000,000 Hoodies; Justice for Trayvon Martin Rally Detroit.
http://www.ralphjones313.com/album/1-000-000-hoodies#1

I was 10 years old and probably the only person of color in the Butzel recreations center's swimming pool that Sunday afternoon. I remember my mother coming up to the fence and yelling my name at the...

I am selling a Canon 50D camera body, slightly used as a back up in mint condition, $650.

Yeah they were looking for volunteers last week to do inventory. I have been on the On Track Services crew the last few races. We are required to volunteer more hours than most, we are usually the...

Oh yeah, P.S.
The Plymouth Bally's has a nice pool [[25 ft.) and it's clean and properly chlorinated.

The Colman Young Center has the best pool around and it's Olympic sized and has a 12 foot deep end in an atrium setting. The only draw back is the schedule open adult is only one hour and sometime...

The place where people are being ticketed, and that poor guy drowned a few weeks ago, has very little current and except the middle of the stream, is not very deep. I usually swim or kayak though...

I usually swim there every day, what time did you get ticketed and how much is the fine?

I was talked into going to Hart Plaza with some photographers and was pleasantly surprised by how orderly and just plain old nice it was....

I am free today and will probably hit the mean streets cameras in hand around 2:00pm.

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Where are all the Detroit artists in this project? I think I will go to the ART EFFECT GALLERY opening night.

Hey thanks for the typo correction.

I found this article about Plum street and it brought back a few memories. I was too young to be a part of the counter culture at the time but my Mom used to take my sister and I down to Plum St. to...

E.J. Korvette's, Peaches, Dearborn Music, Sam's Jams.

ll be there is support of the musicians union.

I just published a photo essay on the Detroit Fire Department. If you have the time check it out and leave a comment if you feel inclined.
http://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Ralph_Jones/1079

Nice article about two Detroit photoblogs coming out of L.A.
http://visceralresponse.com/2011/01/19/detroit-not-dead-yet/