South Detroit? Perry comes clean....

[Meddle]

Those directions are always relative to the cities' downtowns.

Says who?

There's no Cass Corridor, Corktown, Delray or Brightmoor either technically, but local people know those areas by description.

And it's a place mentioned in a song --- so what if it can't be found on a map? Is there a Hotel California? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know or care.

[Jason]

Says who?

There's no Cass Corridor, Corktown, Delray or Brightmoor either technically, but local people know those areas by description.

And it's a place mentioned in a song --- so what if it can't be found on a map? Is there a Hotel California? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know or care.

Those are all names of neighborhoods. They're proper nouns. But south Detroit is a relative geographical description. Sometimes those descriptions become names. For example, there's southwest Detroit [[a description) and there's Southwest Detroit [[the name of a specific place).

There is no south Detroit [[relative geographical description). There could be an area named South Detroit, but there isn't one of those either. The song is referring to a place that doesn't exist, and that's just how it is.

[FlyingJ]

Is there a Hotel California? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know or care.

On the album cover? It's the Beverly Hills Hotel, owned @ that time by Detroiter Ben Silberstein-or you can stay @ this Best Western, your choice
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...alifornia.html