Originally Posted by
Mackenzie68
Couldn't help the pun.
Dad, who is a native Detroiter, age 87, says the bricks were put there to protect the road during the "Arsenal of Democracy" era. Tanks made in the old Cadillac Plant [[Scotten ) were to be driven on it [[1942) . Dad was in electrical school then on 14th Street and regularly walked down to Michigan for lunch. He said the bricks were being laid by hand, one by one. He enlisted before the paving [[bricking) was done so he never saw a tank being run down it.