Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1586 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
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) |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1861 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:36 pm: | |
Link no worky. |
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1588 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:38 pm: | |
Sorry. Try cutting & pasting the new one. And if it works perhaps you can create a real link? eeeeeeek |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3464 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:40 pm: | |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fran ce/story/0,,2217067,00.html |
Mama_jackson Member Username: Mama_jackson
Post Number: 276 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:44 pm: | |
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. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5021 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:45 pm: | |
That was a fascinating story! Thanks. |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 5076 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:50 pm: | |
that is farr too cool. what would be the first "target"? |
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters
Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:57 pm: | |
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? |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 5077 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:03 pm: | |
subway tunnels???????? |
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters
Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:06 pm: | |
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. |
Elsuperbob Member Username: Elsuperbob
Post Number: 113 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:14 pm: | |
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. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11574 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:15 pm: | |
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!) |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 215 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:20 pm: | |
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 |
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters
Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:25 pm: | |
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. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2311 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:11 pm: | |
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... |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11593 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:18 pm: | |
I guess we'd better get STARTED then... |
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters
Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:32 pm: | |
Maybe it already has... ;) |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1136 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:33 pm: | |
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" |
6nois Member Username: 6nois
Post Number: 652 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:43 pm: | |
As with anything start with something small and then work your way up to something more. |
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1591 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:59 pm: | |
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 |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6302 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 2:27 am: | |
I'd start with the neglected Merrill Fountain... |
Spidergirl Member Username: Spidergirl
Post Number: 334 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:10 am: | |
Why do you end each post with eeeek ? |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11607 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:51 am: | |
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) |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 4735 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:59 am: | |
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 |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 4736 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 10:02 am: | |
more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ERSoxabRV7Q |