I realize this may be a tough if not impossible question, but when does everyone think this happened? Detroit was a small outpost for many years, then with the auto industry the population swelled and then declined as production moved out of the city to the suburbs, to out of state, to out of the country.

Is it fair to say 1950 [[when Detroit's population peaked) is a good date? Or another point in time?

It's frustrating to see the city now and not have experienced it when it was a bustling city before I was born. My mother used to tell me stories of how much fun she and her friends had at Hudsons downtown, for example.