Mack Avenue History

[Packman41]

It seems we are not the only ones that have witnessed the decline of Mack Avenue:

For English cop, Detroit’s streets are a culture shock
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...eets/78913254/

“In my country, every murder would be national news, and it amazes me that in Detroit, there are murders that don’t get covered at all by the press,” he said. In addition to the violence, Matthews said he was struck by what he called the city’s “extreme Third World poverty.”

“One of the things that interests me is Mack Avenue [[near the Grosse Pointe Park border). On one side it’s pet boutiques and Disneyland; on the other side is Detroit — a marked difference. Burned-out houses, empty lots and such. Of all the places I’ve been in America, Detroit visually looks most interesting, and not in a good way.”

That same border divide that he mentions is clearly shown on the image I attached on my earlier post [[#27) on page two of this thread. That “marked difference” – the border line at Alter Road was also the subject of a front page column in the Wall Street Journal about 25 years ago.

And IMHO the reason was crime followed by poor schools. There wasn’t any destruction in this area during the 1967 riots and as someone else mentioned the street cars were already gone from this area by the early 1950s, yet the area was still vibrant through the middle 1960s.

[Jimaz]

... That same border divide that he mentions is clearly shown on the image I attached on my earlier post [[#27) on page two of this thread. That “marked difference” – the border line at Alter Road was also the subject of a front page column in the Wall Street Journal about 25 years ago....

This calls for Google Street View.