I remember talking to a camera shop owner in the Penobscott Building during the week before the superbowl. I had asked him why he or other businesses don't open on the weekends especially this weekend before the Superbowl. His reply was "Downtown is a ghost town on the weekends and he and other businesses won't make any money. Many Superbowl participants were desperately looking for places to buy cameras, clothing, outerwear, etc only to be told that they had to travel to the suburbs to purchase those items. It was sad that Detroit after 10 years of the announcement that the Superbowl was coming wasn't even prepared for it. I remember the downtown of the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. A place where there were places to shop and eat on the weekends as well. The boarded storefronts, panhandlers, and closed for the weekends businesses didn't appeared on Woodward until the 1990s.
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