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 TrixieSparrow
    
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
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<Reply # 20 on 4/4/2009 7:14 AM >
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I fucking love you.
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GFDtrk7
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 21 on 4/4/2009 8:42 AM >
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You're a bit out of date, buster. If I remember right, Gary either barely made or didn't even make the top 10 for murder rate per capita last year. Guess they already killed everybody who's worth killing!
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Yeah Gary is now a safe and cozy place to live! News to me, like this link that says Gary IN is #2 for homicides? I wish someone told those of us that live here!
http://www.wane.co..._rate_200901021512
9/11/01 all gave some, some gave all. 343. |
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Curious_George
 
Location: Cambridge
Gender: Male
Straight outta New Bedlam
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<Reply # 22 on 4/4/2009 6:34 PM >
| | | | Posted by GFDtrk7
Yeah Gary is now a safe and cozy place to live! News to me, like this link that says Gary IN is #2 for homicides? I wish someone told those of us that live here!
http://www.wane.co..._rate_200901021512
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A lot of the people I talked to in Gary said they felt safe in their neighbourhood but told me that a handful were quite dangerous. If I remember correctly Glen Park and the area around Ivanhoe were to be avoided.
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yokes
 
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
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<Reply # 23 on 4/5/2009 1:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by Chad479
Detroits not going down without a fight. I can ensure you of that.
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I love that about it.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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deadlystiletto
Location: MKE, WI
Gender: Female
that's what she said
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<Reply # 24 on 4/5/2009 3:34 AM >
| | | | I have been following a site for years now called sweet-juniper - it's a collaboration between a married couple living in Detroit although these days the husband posts more. He also happens to be an incredible photographer who documents through words and photos the decay of the city. There was an amazing series of photos he posted from the abandoned book depository there - saddening and awe-inspiring. I suggest everyone takes a look: http://www.sweet-j...abandoned%20places The link leads to his posts tagged with "abandoned places."
my life through the lens - http://www.flickr.com/deadlystiletto |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Detroit= Biggest Ghost Town?
<Reply # 25 on 4/6/2009 3:25 PM >
| | | | Eminem cut a great promo about Detroit for CBS' Final Four coverage. Really sums up the spirit well (or, it does to an outsider like me)
http://www.raprada...a-final-4-psa.html
(great hanging out with you, Chad, on Saturday)
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Ogre Battle
Location: Chicago IL
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 26 on 4/6/2009 5:59 PM >
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Lots of great pics there; I love before and after stuff. The text is, well, interesting. When did the California Zephyr ever serve Detroit?
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
Give me your $oul
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<Reply # 27 on 4/6/2009 6:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ogre Battle
Lots of great pics there; I love before and after stuff. The text is, well, interesting. When did the California Zephyr ever serve Detroit?
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It was a standard route to Chicago, it did come to Detroit at least on a handful of times. When doing research for the piece I did find pictures circa 1950 in B&W of it at the station. I don't believe it was a regular occasion though.
onlynDetroit.com |
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Ogre Battle
Location: Chicago IL
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 28 on 4/7/2009 1:15 AM >
| | | | Posted by D'void
It was a standard route to Chicago, it did come to Detroit at least on a handful of times. When doing research for the piece I did find pictures circa 1950 in B&W of it at the station. I don't believe it was a regular occasion though.
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No, it wouldn't have been a regular occasion; perhaps they had the cars on display in Detroit on their way to delivery in Chicago from the Budd factory in Pennsylvania. The CZ was a Chicago-San Francisco train (Chicago-Oakland in later years). I'd enjoy seeing the picture if its available online.
Rail passenger traffic in Michigan declined as Americans found a love affair with the automobile, and Michigan in particular was served by many of the first Interstate highways. More so than most Eastern cities, much of Detroit's rail passenger traffic was short-haul, due to the state being shaped like a peninsula jutting up from the rest of the nation's east-west passenger routes, and as such was subject to intense competition from the automobile.
Freight traffic or the lack thereof did not contribute to the demise of the station.
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
Give me your $oul
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<Reply # 29 on 4/7/2009 2:13 AM >
| | | | Posted by Ogre Battle
No, it wouldn't have been a regular occasion; perhaps they had the cars on display in Detroit on their way to delivery in Chicago from the Budd factory in Pennsylvania. The CZ was a Chicago-San Francisco train (Chicago-Oakland in later years). I'd enjoy seeing the picture if its available online.
Rail passenger traffic in Michigan declined as Americans found a love affair with the automobile, and Michigan in particular was served by many of the first Interstate highways. More so than most Eastern cities, much of Detroit's rail passenger traffic was short-haul, due to the state being shaped like a peninsula jutting up from the rest of the nation's east-west passenger routes, and as such was subject to intense competition from the automobile.
Freight traffic or the lack thereof did not contribute to the demise of the station.
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Well it sounds like you know quite a bit on rail industry in Michigan. Are you just a buff, or a rail worker?
onlynDetroit.com |
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Ogre Battle
Location: Chicago IL
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 30 on 4/7/2009 2:25 AM >
| | | | Oh, just a buff. A crazy one at that! LOL.
By the way, please don't take it the wrong way; I wasn't trying to nitpick your site, I was just trying to be helpful. I enjoyed them all. Keep up the good work!
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
Give me your $oul
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<Reply # 31 on 4/7/2009 2:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ogre Battle
Oh, just a buff. A crazy one at that! LOL.
By the way, please don't take it the wrong way; I wasn't trying to nitpick your site, I was just trying to be helpful. I enjoyed them all. Keep up the good work!
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Absolutely no offense taken. I really want the site to be as accurate as possible. PM if you would like, we can discuss it further.
Thanks too btw, those pictures took months of shooting and lots of planning.
onlynDetroit.com |
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U2Rox
Location: El Paso Tx
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 33 on 5/19/2009 7:05 AM >
| | | | Thank You so much for this thread!
Lately I have been on a research craze for Detroit. I'm amazed in the historical value of a city that is in decay.
I would like to see it for myself someday....
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
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<Reply # 34 on 5/19/2009 8:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by U2Rox
Thank You so much for this thread!
Lately I have been on a research craze for Detroit. I'm amazed in the historical value of a city that is in decay.
I would like to see it for myself someday....
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It's by far worth the trip.
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
Give me your $oul
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<Reply # 35 on 8/12/2009 7:26 PM >
| | | | Just encase anyone was wondering if the recession is going away in Detroit...
Hunger Hits Detroit's Middle Class
DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in military fatigues, combat boots and what appears to be a flak jacket. He looks straight out of Baghdad. But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.
Full Story Here:
http://money.cnn.c...version=2009080610
onlynDetroit.com |
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
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<Reply # 36 on 8/12/2009 7:28 PM >
| | | | And slowly, the DMZ comes home to meet us.
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bourbonbaby
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 37 on 8/12/2009 8:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by D'void
Just encase anyone was wondering if the recession is going away in Detroit...
Hunger Hits Detroit's Middle Class
http://i72.photobu...eries_cnnmoney.jpg
DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in military fatigues, combat boots and what appears to be a flak jacket. He looks straight out of Baghdad. But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.
Full Story Here:
http://money.cnn.c...version=2009080610
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Fuck me... that is so beyond fucked up.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtek/ |
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Ram23
Location: Cincinnati, OH and/or Queens, NY
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Detroit= Biggest Ghost Town?
<Reply # 38 on 8/12/2009 10:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by D'void
But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.
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Southeast Detroit? That would be Windsor. I'm pretty sure that's not Windsor, maybe he's got his cardinal directions mixed up.
Cincinnati UE Photos: http://zfein.com/photography |
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
Give me your $oul
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<Reply # 39 on 8/12/2009 11:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ram23
Southeast Detroit? That would be Windsor. I'm pretty sure that's not Windsor, maybe he's got his cardinal directions mixed up.
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I didn't even catch that, you are correct.
I saw "south" and immediately figured (assumed) he was talking about Southwest Detroit.
onlynDetroit.com |
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