I lived on Worcester between 1960 [[when I was born) and 1978 [[when I moved out of Detroit and its environs altogether to go to college, apart from a brief return in the winter of 1981/2). According to Google Streetview, my old house is still standing, but a lot of the houses at the John R end are gone, including the one that for many years had a lawn jockey.

I don't remember all that much about the old neighbourhood. I used to walk to St Benedict's grade school in Highland Park every day from September 1966 until I graduated in June 1974, which of course took me past the Dakota Inn. There was a cinema across John R from the entrance to Worcester, and next to that was a store we called 'Lums', but that closed while I was still in grade school. On the east side of John R was an auto repair shop named 'Red's', and Red lived about three houses along from where I did. He paved over his entire front lawn to turn into car parking, which caused a local scandal.