The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
I lived there for 4 years and never heard anything about this.
Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a world of [...]
Flickr: Detroit Zoo
I’ve started a new Flickr group for the Detroit Zoo. Please join and post pictures if you’ve got them. It appears now that the city might be able to save the zoo, but it wasn’t looking good ’til this morning.
In hopes of preserving memories of the Detroit Zoo please post your [...]
Another chance for zoo plan
Hopefully the second attempt will work.
With public outrage mounting over the possibility that the Detroit Zoo may shut down, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration resuscitated a plan to save it on Tuesday.
The plan is the same one voted down by the council 7-2 Saturday night. It would have allowed the Detroit Zoological [...]
Well, Detroit is in the final preparation stages for the All Star Game next week. Trees are planted on Washington Boulevard and Woodward Avenue, new streetlights from downtown to New Center, new traffic signals going in, bus routes in swing, and security on the rise. Really the only reason I am blogging this [...]
Well written article, but make sure to check out the sidebar too.
Detroit’s U.S. ranking drops
Kurt Metzger, director of the Michigan Metropolitan Information Center at Wayne State University, said Detroit’s drop to 11th place is a blow that’s more symbolic than substantive.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Wednesday that he doesn’t believe the numbers, although he [...]
dETROITfUNK
Impressive photo essay of the fire that destroyed the Studebaker building.
Other photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbantiki/sets/482924/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bewareofdog/sets/483562/
http://detroitarts.blogspot.com/2005/06/piquette-fire.html
Last night we lost a precious part of Detroits Automotive history. The City of Detroit owned Studebaker Plant and the connected Piquette Market were lost in a 5 alarm fire.
The Studebaker company occupied this facility from 1910 to 1932.
dETROITfUNK
Interesting series of photos on an interesting site.
The story goes like this: For years in this region, there has been an urban legend about a place called “The BigBoy Graveyard”..It was like the lost Elephant Graveyards of Africa or something…People all heard of it, but nobody had actually seen it with their own eyes. Well [...]
Detroit called sex disease capital
One more thing for Detroit to be “proud” of.
In February, Men’s Fitness magazine crowned us the fattest.
In September, Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated called Detroiters a bunch of heat-packing rowdies who “warm their hands around cop car fires.”
Now — drum roll please — the Motor City is supposedly the metropolis most [...]
