  Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1156 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.130.18.100 |
"I am half in love with Detroit. I may as well admit it, for you are sure to find me out. She is beautiful—not with the warm, passionate beauty of San Francisco, the austere, mountain beauty of Denver, nor the strange, sophisticated, destroying beauty of New York, but with a sweet domestic kind of beauty, like that of a young wife, gay, strong, alert, enthusiastic; a twinkle in her eye, a laugh upon her lips. She has temperament and charm, qualities as rare, as fascinating, and as difficult to define in a city as in a human being." http://www.oldandsold.com/arti cles16/american-travel-5.shtml | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1157 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.130.18.100 |
"Too much praise cannot be given business men who have earned a reputation like that conveyed by the magic words, ‘Made in Detroit.’ Having already passed the 400,000 mark in population, Detroit has now taken its place among the great cities of the country, and the sign ‘Made in Detroit’ is accepted everywhere as a guarantee of excellence." http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi /county/tuscola/det/dethistory c.htm | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1158 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.130.18.100 |
postcards postcards postcards (scroll down) | ||
7milekid Member Username: 7milekid Post Number: 123 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.61.161.193 |
whats that dime bank building | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6253 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
www.dimebuilding.com | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 439 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 65.185.132.134 |
Here's a book cover from the library of the Packman  | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2607 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Several years ago I read a book about the history of the Detroit Tigers written in the 40s (I "borrowed" it from my father's library). Although the book was about the Tigers and written in the stilted language of a 1940's sportswriter, the subtext was magnificent boomtown Detroit marvel of 20th century industry. At the time I read this book I was making a lot of work-related trips to Silicon Valley and the similarities between the dynamic swagger of Si Valley in the late 90's and that of auto boom Detroit were crystal clear. IMO, Detroit's boom was much bigger and broader in it's economic sweep and how it transformed the US ... but then I am a Tigers fan ... |
