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Detroitrise
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 11:54 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The end of World War II. :-)
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Jcole
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Back to Back Pistons Playoff victories.
Tiger World Series wins
Red Wings Stanley cups
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Django
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

the day KK steps down.
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Bigb23
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Gaz
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have to believe that the best days of Detroit aren't behind it, but ahead of it.
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Irish_mafia
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 12:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

1962 - The birth of one of my favorite people at old Providence hospital. It was really the start of something great.
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Mayor_sekou
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 1:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The day I was born.
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Dtowncitylover
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The 1950/60s or the years leading up to the Great Depression, things where booming in those years.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Detroit's factories producing the machines and equipment that won WWII for the allies.
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Evelyn
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The boom years of the 1920s, when many of the buildings that define Detroit's skyline were built.
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Detroitrise
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"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. :-)
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Evelyn
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 8:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I would've liked to have seen the Fisher Building with three sections, instead of the one that was built!
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Dannyv
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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 9:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Our God-sent leader, Kwame's birth.
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Waz
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 6:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Douglasm
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 8:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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......
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Nedab3
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 8:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Living on Wayburn in the 40's and 50's. What a great place to grow up.
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Retroit
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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!
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Flanders_field
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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...
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Jrvass
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 11:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

...we'll know that Hell has frozen over.
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Gaz
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.

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