What are your memories (good or bad) of Detroit for those who grew up in the city or have lived there for quite some time? It can be a memory of the city per se or any random memory within the city.
Here's mine:
All the house fires on devil's night-(especially 1987)..i could look out my back porch to see all the fires through-out the city and all the news-reporters from far-flung areas of the globe coming here to report this.
Going into the salt-mine and grabbing a big chunk of salt for some kind of odd souvenir.(as a kid, of course) Yes, there is a salt mine in Detroit.
Going to Belle Isle as a kid to go on the wavy-slide.
Having a family-picnic with my "mexican" family at Patton Park. It was quite a "fiesta".
Seeing the sky turn orange at night. It was a smelting plant(Ford Rouge Complex) that would dump slag and that would turn the sky orange.
Remembering when the Pistons won the championship back in '89, my friend and i asked my uncle to drop us off downtown so we could see the parade going down Woodward.(I was 12 at the time) That was awesome.
Remembering watching a Tigers game in '87, it was one of those 1 o'clock games and i had stayed home from school. Sittin' there watching it, the camera does a pan-shot of the crowd only to have these two ladies flash their mysterious mounds of flesh on national television.
There was a local bread bakery in my old neighborhood which smelled so dang good compared to all the pollution in the area. One day, my friend and i were walking back home only to see this bakery with its back garage door open with many,many racks of bread sittin' there cooling off. So we snuck underneath the garage door and grabbed a box of bread each only within a few steps, we were chased by the bread-man down the street. Sadly, we ended up with a loaf each but there was a trail of bread in the street a block long.
Tiger Stadium. I was quite sad when they built the new stadium.
Being able to see the fireworks quite well without ever having to go downtown to see them up close and personal.We'd climb buildings as to where ever we were at.
Climbing the old Ford Tower by the Ford Rouge Complex/Rouge River! Dang, that thing is high but doesn't look like it from the ground!
Coleman Young!
(to mention a few)
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