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Carptrash
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A friend just sent me this link and I thought . .. hmmmmm?

Let's try this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2217067,00.html

(Message edited by carptrash on February 11, 2008)
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Detroitnerd
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Link no worky. :-)
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Carptrash
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry. Try cutting & pasting the new one. And if it works perhaps you can create a real link? eeeeeeek
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Lilpup
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fran ce/story/0,,2217067,00.html
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Mama_jackson
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Link worked for me.

I heard of guerrilla gardening for neighborhoods in decline, so why not this? As long as they know what they are doing. Detroit sure could use some "Cultural Guerrilla's"! Seems like all we hear of are things going the other way.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That was a fascinating story! Thanks.
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Rb336
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

that is farr too cool. what would be the first "target"?
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Cdwaters
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is my first post after lurking here for several years. I've been waiting for a more upbeat thread to post on but the Mayor seems to be hoarding all of the discussion. Anyway, I could think of a million places in Detroit that this could be accomplished. I think there would be a shortage of funds to secretly restore the UA theater, but how about a bar in one of the mythical subway tunnels under woodward?
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Rb336
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

subway tunnels????????
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Cdwaters
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah, they were supposedly dug as test tunnels for a subway that was never built. There has been past discussion of them here before, though I don't think there was much detail given. That's why I called them mythical.
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Elsuperbob
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That is a pretty cool idea.

When I first went to MCS I was thinking what would happen if everyone who went in cleaned up a bit, fixed things, just to tidy up the place a little bit at a time.
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Gannon
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

"We would like to be able to replace the state in the areas it is incompetent," said Klausmann. "But our means are limited and we can only do a fraction of what needs to be done. There's so much to do in Paris that we won't manage in our lifetime."




True heroes of their city.


Welcome, Cdwaters. I had an old friend who said he'd been down there and saw them...back when he worked for Wayne County. He explored the extensive tunnels between some Catholic institutions in the north part of town, too.


I wonder if we can get Miss Dig a little sodium pentathol...


(Carpy, cannot find that e-address, does your better half still have mine? Trying to plan a springtime visit...very much needed!)
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D_mcc
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We should call those people who produce Cities of the Underworld on the History Channel and have them do an episode on the forgotten Detroit
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Cdwaters
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I used to work at Greenfield Village and there are/were several tunnels connecting buildings. They were all steam or electrical tunnels, but some were placed in odd locations. Being younger at the time, we believed the rumors that Henry had escape tunnels built back to his mansion and my buddies and I were determined to find them. It was a lot of fun if unproductive.
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Charlottepaul
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If Paris has more work to be done than that which can be accomplished in a lifetime for this group, imagine what it would take in Detroit...
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Gannon
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I guess we'd better get STARTED then...
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Cdwaters
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe it already has... ;)
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Lefty2
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sounds like a great idea, where would one start?

I can see a headline now " Subversive gang of underground artisans alarms politicians for making them look bad"
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6nois
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

As with anything start with something small and then work your way up to something more.
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Carptrash
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd start in AA by removing all the ivy that they allow to swallow up some classic Parducci on Rackham - then do the same thing on Murphy's statues on the Union.

G-MAN. Do it. try eeklon at yahoo dot commie for/with details. PS there is a foot of really gooey mud every where right now. I'd wait or if you get in you'll not get out. eeeeek

PS wecome tot he lurker that we have lured (lurid?) in with this more upscale talk. einar
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Gistok
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd start with the neglected Merrill Fountain...
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Spidergirl
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:10 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Why do you end each post with eeeek ?
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Gannon
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Spider,

I would, too, if he hadn't copyrighted it.


It's his version of my 'heh', or his overall reaction to the world about him.

All honest people would be muttering it daily. Should be. Could be.



Carpy,
It would be a dream to be stuck in that mud for a while...I am SO itching for a road trip, and another 'Violetting'...that I will now NOT be able to continue this weird happy start to my day!

I will now wistfully daydream of Taos vibrations...e-mail on the way!


Cheers! (that's MY happy geek eeeeeeek)
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Barnesfoto
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:59 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yay, guerilla public service!

Here's a link to one of my favorite people in Los Angeles, Richard Ankrom, who proves that you can do anything when you put on a florescent orange safety vest:

http://ankrom.org/freeway_sign s.html
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Barnesfoto
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 10:02 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ERSoxabRV7Q

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