Quote Originally Posted by p69rrh51 View Post
I have to post this every year. Only in Detroit would this go on during a major civil disturbance!

My parents 1967 riot experience was very different from most. Residing on our block on Harvard in East English Village was Joe Muer. Mr. Muer threw a Champagne and Alaskan King Crab party every night of the curfew for anyone who could avoid the police and 82nd Airborne. My parents left my sister and myself with baby sitters who lived two doors away while they hopped fences and kept in the shadows as they made their way down the block and had a grand time with the others who in some instances drove in from Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham for the most outrageous party that I have ever heard of in the City of Detroit's history.
That has a ring of somewhere between "Let them eat cake" and Nero fiddling. Was the continual popcorn crackle of gunfire that filled the background around me [Warren and Woodward] audible at the parties?