  Ericsprague Member Username: Ericsprague Post Number: 18 Registered: 02-2006 |
An enlightening account of a recent visitor's changed perspective of Detroit which should help us appreciate and celebrate many of our city's unique characteristics that we often take for granted. Hopefully this will be an increasingly typical experience for those who visit: http://www.marinij.com/lifesty les/ci_6151950 | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 94 Registered: 09-2006 |
The last two sentences: quote: Boy, we really knocked her socks off. Frankly, I hope this is a letter from a reader and not a staff member. She writes with all the sophistication of a Freep message boarder. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1038 Registered: 02-2006 |
quote: Heh...uhh...I think what she meant to say was she's never seen anything like a middle-class black population before. | ||
Sturge Member Username: Sturge Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2007 |
Finally a writer who didn't say we were on the shores of Lake Michigan. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 295 Registered: 04-2006 |
There's that word "droves" again! Look, there goes a drove crossing 8 Mile now! :D Good article and great review of a first-timer. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 1879 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: Not just park-like but an actual park! | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2310 Registered: 12-2005 |
I noticed that too, Pam. I'd guess she regarded it as an island first that happened to be a park. I think Detroiters regard it as a park that happens to be on an island. First perceptions are interesting. | ||
Jjw Member Username: Jjw Post Number: 335 Registered: 10-2005 |
Maybe she saw that huge, ugly cement slab and hence---"park-like" being more appropriate | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1130 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think that that article even helped me to see a new view of Detroit. It was very interesting that the author saw Detroit as an integrated city. It has never seemed that way to me, but I guess I am open to beginning to change my view on that. | ||
Cynknight Member Username: Cynknight Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hey, could we submit the last line of her article to become Detroit's new slogan? DETROIT - It's not such a dump after all.  | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1134 Registered: 10-2006 |
YEAH! LOL. In all seriousness, why not? | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 132 Registered: 07-2005 |
First, be grateful that people from Marin even have us on their radar. You can change stereotypes one positive face-to-face meeting at a time. Someone hearing her tales back home comes away with perhaps a new curiosity about Detroit, gets out here and finds and spreads a similar message. You may not have liked the words she chose, but she saw firsthand - and shared. Isn't that what we all try to do here in the forum? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1142 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's the thing Downtown_dave. Down here in Charlotte, I tell my coworkers how much I miss Detroit and they think I am crazy. Once they find out how serious I am, I tell them why (depends on what the coworker is interested in), but it helps that I work at an architecture office and can show some of the great books on the architecture of Detroit. ONE PERSON AT A TIME. That's my slogan for changing Detroit's image. The best part is that everyone that I have talked to about Detroit is more impressed after hearing and seeing the great things the city has and that is what keeps me going in boring ol' Charlotte, NC. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 300 Registered: 04-2006 |
My displaced Detroit friend now in Charlotte says the same thing...lol You guys must sit down to a beer...well 2 beers. Company-paid trip to Detroit for some lessons in architecture? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1150 Registered: 10-2006 |
LOL, well, why not? paulfretz@ls3p.com (work email) I flew up to DTW for St. Patrick's Day weekend, but that was the last time. Where else can you see 100 friends from your university all at one place having a good time? Ahhhhh the Gaelic League. I miss everything about Detroit in one way or another. |
