If anyone is a really good researcher or has access to Detroit Free Press [[or News) archives from the 80's, there was a really good article about the trailer park in the Sunday magazine [[I think it was the Free Press, pretty sure it was before the JOA so the News also had a Sunday paper and it might have been either). I remember the writer interviewed several long time residents, including a sea captain's widow and someone who had a grand piano in his trailer. That place was in its day the epitome of Detroit's contrarian beauty -- you could live on the water in a single family detached dwelling, and have a boat, for next to nothing compared to anywhere else in the world. It would be great if someone could find the article and post it here.