Mack Avenue History

[Detroitdave]

MikeG provided this link and the photo is attached below:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...-28903%5D28903

The Cunninghams Drug store was on the northwest corner of Mack and Chalmers - looking west down Mack Ave. I should know I walked past that corner for 3 years while attending Jackson Junior High 1959 - 1962.

It used to be a very vibrant area and now the area is descibed as an "urban prairie." That corner is now a vacant lot.

And it did not have to be this way.

That's shocking,sad, and depressing. No wonder so many people from "back in the day" are so down on Detroit.
When I saw those pictures side by side I got a sinking feeling in my gut.
Their childhood memories have been literally wiped away. I can see why it tugs at their heart strings. such a beautiful area resorted to that ! truly sad.
And that was just one neighborhood of MANY !
A once beautiful city reduced to shambles, trying to regain her footing.
So much was lost, but some glimmers of her past beauty remains.
Hoping for the best .