Detroit liquor store owner shot dead

[Meddle]

As a life long Detroiter it is sad to see what has happened to Dexter and other once nice thoroughfares.

I'm having a hard time remembering when Dexter was a nice thoroughfare. I remember it as one of the worst of the worst many years back.

[313WX]

I'm having a hard time remembering when Dexter was a nice thoroughfare. I remember it as one of the worst of the worst many years back.

While Dexter near Davison has been going downhill since the 1970s, at least through the early 1990s that thoroughfare, like most in inner-city Detroit, still had some semblance of lower-end retail establishments that lined the street. Since the early 1990s, the decline has accelrated triple fold.

As you can see in the picture, that liquor store was about the only retail establishment left on that part of Dexter.

[Detroitej72]

I'm having a hard time remembering when Dexter was a nice thoroughfare. I remember it as one of the worst of the worst many years back.

You are asking for an "old-time" schooling from Jjaba with that comment!


Paging Jjaba, on the Dexter/Davison bus... where art thou?

[Zacha341]

It was nicer back in the 70's up thru early 90's. I used to see a chiropractor on Dexter and I can remember an African, jazz dance and martial arts studio in one of the store fronts on Dexter. Several independent shops and stores flanked Davison and Dexter... nearly all gone.

I'm having a hard time remembering when Dexter was a nice thoroughfare. I remember it as one of the worst of the worst many years back.