Is Chene the worst commercial district in the city?

[Detroitej72]

I am old enough to remember the latter days of Chene Street. the Chene Ferry Maket was busy...old bubba's carrying the knit shopping bags and their quart glass milk bottles for the blood from the duck or goose they would purchase out the back door of the store on Chene overlooked the market ...go home and make czarnina or czernina. Also the bakery, Chene Modern and the Meat and Sausage store on the ne corner of Chene and Ferry with the hot smoked sausage and the best garlic headcheese. Thee had been some attempt at defining the core business area with awnings and graphics and it all seemed stable until the demolition of the north end of the neighborhood for the Poleown plant. As the families moved out, more left from the south end and with thaging population it wasn't ten years until St. Stanislaus closed, marking the end of the area for all pratical purposes.

I remember many of those stores you mentioned as well as Palmer Bakery, which remained open until the mid 80's, if my memory serves me correctly. Many storefronts remained standing well into the 90's, even though many were vacant. The hardware store was one of the last holdout.