Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 2011 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 11:54 am: | |
The end of World War II. |
Jcole Member Username: Jcole
Post Number: 381 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:00 pm: | |
Back to Back Pistons Playoff victories. Tiger World Series wins Red Wings Stanley cups |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 200 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:07 pm: | |
the day KK steps down. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 1349 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:14 pm: | |
1910- 1928. The Automotive boom throughout the metro area, radio media coming into it's own, influx of laborers who are paid living wages, new business buildings going up all over, and new freedom of the arts. |
Gaz Member Username: Gaz
Post Number: 152 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:16 pm: | |
I have to believe that the best days of Detroit aren't behind it, but ahead of it. |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1269 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:21 pm: | |
1962 - The birth of one of my favorite people at old Providence hospital. It was really the start of something great. |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 2331 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 1:10 pm: | |
The day I was born. |
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 82 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:16 pm: | |
The 1950/60s or the years leading up to the Great Depression, things where booming in those years. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 6359 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:40 pm: | |
Detroit's factories producing the machines and equipment that won WWII for the allies. |
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 208 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:30 pm: | |
The boom years of the 1920s, when many of the buildings that define Detroit's skyline were built. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 2014 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:36 pm: | |
"The boom years of the 1920s, when many of the buildings that define Detroit's skyline were built." It's a shame the building(s) that really would have defined our skyline were prevented by the Great Depression (like the 81-story Book Tower). I would love for someone to come by and develop it. |
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 209 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:45 pm: | |
I would've liked to have seen the Fisher Building with three sections, instead of the one that was built! |
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 169 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 9:41 pm: | |
Our God-sent leader, Kwame's birth. |
Waz Member Username: Waz
Post Number: 269 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 6:51 pm: | |
A) Adoption of the "Woodward Plan" to reconfigure Detroit's streets after the 1805 fire. B)Sense among the citizenry to stop further advancement of the "Woodward Plan" before it got out of control. |
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 1077 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 8:48 pm: | |
1968. I'm one that still holds to the theory that the Tigers kept the city from falling apart. Unfortunately, the promise of reconsiliation that the year brought was never fullfilled...... |
Nedab3 Member Username: Nedab3
Post Number: 105 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 8:53 pm: | |
Living on Wayburn in the 40's and 50's. What a great place to grow up. |
Retroit Member Username: Retroit
Post Number: 18 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:17 pm: | |
June 4, 1896 Henry Ford knocking down the wall of his shed to make an opening big enough to get his first "automobile" out. Wonder what the neighbors thought! |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 314 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:36 pm: | |
IMO, it was the rush hour celebration from downtown Detroit on the October 10th afternoon in 1968 that the Tigers won the World Series. Clusters of people from the neighborhoods on almost every streetcorner of the major arteries celebrating along with the people driving or riding in cars, trucks and buses. Will never witness anything quite as galvanizing as that event, especially since it occurred the year after the 67 riots. Now if the the Lions were ever to win the Superbowl... |
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 636 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 11:55 pm: | |
...we'll know that Hell has frozen over. |
Gaz Member Username: Gaz
Post Number: 159 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:48 am: | |
If it weren't for Detroit during WWII, we might all be speaking German now. I think Detroit, more than any other American city, made the difference, and its' people put forth a superhuman effort. I wasn't around then, but I have heard so many stories from people who were. |