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What a whimsically brilliant touch!

It must have been nice to live in a time and place when shopping was an event, at a destination like that. My parents used to take us to the mall to see...

Wow, indeed. I lived in Dallas for a year, and you couldn't pay me enough to go back to Texas. Midwestern summers have nothing on the humid temperatures they get down there, and while segregation...

Don't you feel better now?

That's a shame, and though it's nice he got an apology, it would be better if they could somehow give Galarraga the credit he deserves, anyway.

I'm kind of tripping right now, because pretty much...

Hell no! I see people run red lights in Seattle all the time, especially during rush hour. It's stupid and dangerous, especially where pedestrians absolutely have the right of way, and [[equally...

There is deterioration going on nationally, as well. This country has been in a depression comparable to the Great one for almost 10 years now, and while Detroit itself has been for more like 40+,...

What trips me out is how they didn't even bother to close the windows. It is a shame: they're both gorgeous.

And not bothered to look through windows, apparently. I could see them getting the wrong empty building occasionally, but don't see how this could happen to a functioning business and be called an...

Wow, some people take things entirely too seriously. With all the complaint about constant, often violent, crime, you want to file a police report? On a guy selling what amounts to pressed pennies,...

I always thought a porch, being part of a house, constituted private property, which should make it legal unless you're under-age or causing a disturbance. Besides, I'd think Detroit police would...

This is encouraging. I think small businesses are the best way to restart an economy: it brings the biggest variety, creativity, and general cost-effectiveness [[if you don't have corporate wads and...

Looking as an outsider, I'd say it's hard to make even 50% of the former standards when 50% of a population moves away, and the industry it was built on is a slowly sinking ship. I don't know how...

Perhaps this thread should be called "Appearances are Deceiving."

It's easy to get stars in your eyes, seeing real estate ads for picturesque places even I could conceivably afford. Having paid...

I've told some people in the Pacific NW about my visit to Detroit, and their response generally was, "You think that's bad, check out L.A. sometime." One guy even asked me to "give it at least 7...

Wow, suddenly the 3 shots my roommate heard last night remind me of regional mosquito-bite comparisons. "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never more guns fired..."

Here's to the upswing! ...

MoparDan, you have so many great ideas! Isn't the simplest solution is the best, at least for starting out? Do we ever know all the pertinent details to a project before it's begun?

It's hard to...

English and Retroit, you both make excellent points.

Having lived in a rapidly rising tourist destination for 4 years, and worked in a restaurant in Pike Place Market that a scene from "Sleepless...

Oh dear. I saw those painted arches in "8 Mile" [[of course), and a car chase in "The Island" I think. I was always a little afraid to find out what that building had been... Turn-of-the-century...

All things I immediately noticed. Would you say, almost 100 years later, that Hudson's has indeed grown with Detroit?

I love vintage photos and movies, both to see how things have changed, and...

English, I hope racial polarization, period, has another 10 years tops. It is a lot harder to judge, and be judged, by the content of your character, but that's the only way to get anywhere and be...

I only spent a few hours in Detroit, on a crazy road trip just before I moved to Seattle. It's one of the places in the 49 states I've seen that I never forgot.

I grew up in a suburb of...