It wasn't really all that different that what you might hear people say in the big cities of today. I remember a poster in another forum saying that their parents, during the 1930s, thought Detroit was too crowded and could never bother to live here with all the noise and traffic. Of course there was probably tons of other people who loved it. And then too there was probably a lot more diversity because of immigrants than their is today.

I've seen a few videos from during that time period, and yea... Detroit pretty much seemed like the big city 2nd to Chicago. It's definitely hard to imagine it now.