  Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 965 Registered: 10-2003 |
What do you think? | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4755 Registered: 10-2003 |
Good. | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 9048 Registered: 09-2005 |
Excellent. Wish he'd show up and kick butt in Detroit again. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1728 Registered: 01-2005 |
 I was better than the coal man. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1264 Registered: 04-2006 |
He kinda looks like LBP... | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1729 Registered: 01-2005 |
 Yeah, he wasn't all bad..... | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1390 Registered: 08-2006 |
Jeffries liked unions. My kinda man. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4757 Registered: 10-2003 |
The "progressive" folks on here would have loved him for his love of bigger government and tax increases. | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 295 Registered: 10-2006 |
Couzens Hall was a dump. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 5890 Registered: 10-2003 |
A lot on here would like him because he was the one that pushed forward municipal railways, having formerly served as the commissioner of street railways. And, he was elected the mayor of an already booming Detroit, so he'll get a lot of praise the same way someone running an already declining Detroit will be heckled to no end. | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 9057 Registered: 09-2005 |
Few know today of his connection with Children's Hospital. Imagine what size his $1M gift in 1922 would be in today's $$. Here's a link: www.reuther.wayne.edu/collecti ons/hefa_1244.htm | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 196 Registered: 07-2006 |
Couzens lived in the Boston Edison Area, I believe on Longfellow Ave. Henry Ford bought him out for around $15 million. He was a good influence for the state. Couzens also paid for a new Bath (Michigan) schoolhouse to replace the one that the disgruntled taxpayer guy blew up. | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 9058 Registered: 09-2005 |
Ford bought him out for $35M in 1919 - a sum I once read would be the equivalent of $1B today. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 556 Registered: 06-2005 |
Swiburn, you're correct. The James Couzens' house is on the northwest corner of Longfellow and Second. directly across from Voight Park. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4761 Registered: 10-2003 |
He built a fine estate out in Bloomfield off of Lone Pine called Wabeek. The gates of Wabeek are now on Cass near Wayne State. | ||
Soomka1 Member Username: Soomka1 Post Number: 30 Registered: 02-2007 |
According to this excellent cost of living calculator http://www.aier.org/research/c ol.php , the $1M gift in 1922 would be $12.2M today, and the $35M buyout in 1919 would be $416M! Whenever I hear someone talk about how great things used to be and how inexpensive things were, I like to run the numbers on that calculator. For example, the first time I paid a dollar a gallon for gas was 1978. That converts to $3.15, so the $2.59 I paid in Tucson today doesn't seem quite so bad. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 2582 Registered: 06-2004 |
Without Couzens there would have been no Ford Motor Company | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1547 Registered: 03-2006 |
bad bad bad! he vetoed the original subway system plan.....probably the cause of many a problem in our city. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 168 Registered: 01-2007 |
Mediocre. (who the hell cares? These "good or bad" threads are BAD!) |
