As a kid, I was driven to the Music institute for lessons. This was in the late sixties/early seventies. The institute is on John R and Kirby and my relative took the "direct route" after exiting the Lodge and taking Grand Blvd east shot down John R. [[Woodward would have been safer, I think.) It is near the old Piquette Model T plant.

In that area, at the time I saw seedy bars maybe vice and wooden tenements [[or VERY old apts) and row houses, the former with plastic dropcloth for windows! A neighbor said the former Police Chief of Highland Park said HE would not go near that Hood. I think it is considered part of Milwaukee Junction or North End and is mostly empty lots now. Anyone have memories of This? And there were even some houses being stripped of fixtures near the music institute during that time period.

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