Who remember the 1970 Memorial Park Riots?

[Danny]

In 1970 Memorial Park in Royal Oak, MI. was used as a hippie and flowerchildren commune area just like Haight and Ashbury Streets. When concern neighbors call the Royal Oak Police about illegal street drug sales, they close the park. Then hundreds of white youths begin to riot. It spread further northward to Birmingham. The riots lasted three days until the police stop it from spreading to other middle class white neighborhoods.

Did any of you D-YESERS were at Memorial Park in 1970s? Do you all know about the riots. Did you all have friends and relatives who went to Memorial Park at the time of the riots? We're some of forum members lived near Memorial Park at the time where hippies and flowerchildren did their peace culture before the riots?

Any thoughts?

Here's one of the photos http://dlxsimg.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/i...viewid=16692_3