Someone who grew up in south Royal Oak in the 1970s recently told me that he remembers classmates being displaced by construction of the freeway. I had always thought that section officially opened in 1989. I have a few questions here: Does anyone know what years that section of 696 were built during? Did any streets officially disappear? It seems as though a decent sized portion of businesses / homes would have been destroyed to make way for the new freeway. I'm having a hard time imagining it, but I would think that the large [[old) white and blue building [[I believe it is Walker Wire co) near the railroad would have been the "original" Ten Mile. Anyone have any pictures?


Thanks