Meanwhile in Detroit. A photo collection.

[Whitehouse]

http://cavemancircus.com/2014/01/08/meanwhile-detroit/

It's no doubt a lot of cliche inhere. I don't live there but what can be confirmed as true in here?

[EastsideAl]

It's no doubt a lot of cliche inhere.

No it's pretty much all cliches. And mostly all dumb, implied racist ones at that. Where did you find this crap, ..........?

[EastsideAl]

Ahhh, I see there are words that get censored here. The word I typed at the end there is the name of an infamously well-known website that hosts pictures of this sort and is named after a weather phenomenon.

Incidentally, the first photo is of a painting by Kehinde Wiley that is indeed in the DIA. Whether you like his work or not, he's a Yale MFA and his work is in the collections of many major museums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehinde_Wiley

[poobert]

http://cavemancircus.com/2014/01/08/meanwhile-detroit/

It's no doubt a lot of cliche inhere. I don't live there but what can be confirmed as true in here?

Pretty lousy.

Though I can vouch that "Fresh-squeezed Kool Aid" was, in fact, Detroit.

West 43rd and Robert "Go Hoe" corner was obviously not in Detroit, because our street signs are green.

The worst is the DIA. That is actually a really cool painting. It challenges our idea of heroism - we expect to see a white man on the white horse, when replaced with a contemporary, relatively common African-American man, well, look at the reaction. It all of a sudden becomes a joke. Why? I can tell you I serve in the military with African Americans and they are not a joke and they are as heroic and patriotic as the next man.

The Trick-or-Treating one is actually pretty hilarious, and it seems like something somebody here would do. Detroit is often so absurd you could actually make a funny non-racist page of oddities. I know I've seen enough here.

[DetroitPlanner]

meanwhile.....

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Palme...=12,40.01,,0,0

Jeeps get made
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=conne...bp=12,195,,1,0

Troubled young girls defy the odds, graduate High School, and go on to college. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=conne...12,306.34,,0,0

Miracles happen and monks feed the poor.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=42.35151...=12,97.55,,0,0

A forgotten railroad is given a new role in moving people, not goods.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dequi...gan+48207&z=19

Kids play in an abandoned parking lot
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dequi...=12,237.2,,0,0

An old building is given a new lease on life
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=The+W...2,135,,0,-22.5

Someone in distress gets the help they need and a chance to live.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Detro...8.54,,1,-12.75

[Honky Tonk]

Ahhh, I see there are words that get censored here.

Words? WHOLE posts get censored here!

[jcole]

W 43rd and Robert Ave is in Cleveland
http://goo.gl/maps/NjXjQ

[jackie5275]

Dum dee dee dum dum dum dum

[Packman41]

I do not know much about the other photos on that website, but several photos were a from the DetroitYes website. On July 1, 2012 I started the thread "Baby Zaia Death on Brinker Street."

In my thread I mentioned I read a comment from "Rex" on another thread about Centerline Fireworks shooting. There, Rex did a Google Earth drive down Brinker Street and saw a photo of a guy pointing a rifle/shotgun at the Google Earth camera car.

The story went nationwide and with so many hits the DetroitYes website went down for a short period of time