  Postbop Member Username: Postbop Post Number: 100 Registered: 09-2007 |
I thought this YouTube video was really cool and wanted to share it with you http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ull 2HdEC-Ts http://youtube.com/watch?v=q0d 1rfBC0Lw | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2008 |
I've watched these films a 100x and still get goosebumps. That nostalgia my parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles instilled in me is vivid and real. We hope for better days, for they shall rise from the ashes. | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 751 Registered: 08-2005 |
wow...I don't know what to say. 2 mill ppl, its looks so vibrant. Wow, we really have squandered out water as a resource for growth. We should be what Chicago is today. | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 691 Registered: 02-2007 |
Wow. Used to be quite a place, eh? | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 633 Registered: 02-2006 |
I've seen this video at least 99 times. And as the great Bill Parr, of the Incredibles, once said, "it's great to relive the Glory Days"! <313> | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1886 Registered: 09-2007 |
How many times are you people going to post those videos? | ||
Postbop Member Username: Postbop Post Number: 101 Registered: 09-2007 |
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ull 2HdEC-Ts http://youtube.com/watch?v=q0d 1rfBC0Lw | ||
Gogo Member Username: Gogo Post Number: 1404 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ah yes, the glory days. When the seeds of Detroit's future problems were planted. When express ways which promised convenience and mobility turned into crumbling infrastructure saddling future generations with huge maintenance costs and solidified the car as the preferred mode of transportation and the demise of the street car. The glory days when "urban renewal projects" cleared densely populated neighborhoods which were rebuilt with sparsely populated projects and suburban style developments. The glory days when racial tensions bubbled under the surface instead of on the front page of the news paper. Ah yes, the glory days. I don't know how any one can watch this without screaming at the video that the "city on the move" is moving in the wrong direction. Detroit didn't get to where it is today in a day or even a decade. Its problems started long ago, in its "glory days". | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 832 Registered: 05-2004 |
At least there were people in the neighborhoods who gave a crap and you could walk down the streets without fear of your life being taken away. What do we have today? Certainly not the wonder years. Well maybe.. like wonder where the cops are? Wonder when the lights will come back on? Wonder if the schools will ever graduate 50% or more of the students? Wonder where all my neighbors moved to? | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 571 Registered: 10-2006 |
quote: Probably as many times as you uselessly post complaining about other people's posts. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1887 Registered: 09-2007 |
"Probably as many times as you uselessly post complaining about other people's posts." If it's a dumb post, I'm going to let you know about it, like yours. I'm only helping others out in doing so. They have to learn from their mistakes. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6259 Registered: 11-2003 |
It was unimaginable that two yrs. after this video, Detroit would erupt in the worse riot rebellion ever in July, 1967. Amazing times. jjaba. | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 340 Registered: 11-2007 |
I don't understand how there could be race riots only 2 years later. According to the video, the only black people in the city back then were playing for the Pistons. | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 387 Registered: 10-2006 |
I am so sick of people posting this Video! | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2935 Registered: 04-2006 |
Imagine if the Olympics had actually been given to Detroit in '68... | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 768 Registered: 08-2005 |
guess what - some people have never seen it. Everyone doesn't see the same thing at once | ||
Postbop Member Username: Postbop Post Number: 105 Registered: 09-2007 |
I sarcastically feel really dumb now, but I have learned from my mistakes and seek to atone for them. I will only post things after having meticulously scoured the forum for previous posts. Sorry to have waisted 30 of your superior seconds. | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2008 |
does anyone know where in detroit the olympic stadium would have been built? | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 698 Registered: 02-2007 |
401 - look again. Blacks in the crowd sequences, and I believe in the exterior shots around the school. Point taken, though - a dramatically whiter Detroit, especially by the standard of current demographics. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1929 Registered: 03-2006 |
olympia was at grand river and mcgraw | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6267 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Olympia has nuthin' to do with The Olympics of 1968. Postbop, jjaba enjoyed both videos. Don't let the bastards get you down. Never be defensive on The Forum. They will eat you alive. Thanks for this thread. Yes, Detroit seemed very white back then. Even jjaba passed for white too, but who's keeping score? jjaba. | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 13 Registered: 02-2008 |
Rephrase: Does anyone know where Olympic Stadium of Detroit would have been built if we were awarded the Olympic Games of 1968? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6268 Registered: 11-2003 |
Dtowncitylover, the Olympic Brennan Pools in Rouge Park were built to Olympic specs. That was way before the 1968 proposals. Detroit made bids for many Olympics, maybe six of them. Welcome to The Forum. jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
