Yes indeed, the Edmund Fitzgerald. Inspired by VM, check it out:
There was a time when I lived in Windsor, Ontario, I know, brave, like a town in Belgium the Allies bombed and was never built back better. Whatever, we'd watch the big ships on the Detroit river from our apartment on Assumption. Quite a thing.
On topic, HRH EII visited Windsor and remarked, "What a large city, I had no idea." She was looking down Tecumseh, I think, towards the Motor City.
Reliable sources tell me America's onetime automotive capital's been reimagined as some kind of WholeFoods hipster enclave, a bucolic rustic, socially hi-fenced preserve returned to nature where factories, making things, once held sway.
Of course all the people living in the Preserve hate the working class and people of color, and vote socialist. How very odd, and I'm sure the feeling's mutual.
Reverie Over,
LSP
The only way any revival of the Rust Belt can occur is if the inhabitants completely throw off the mantle of socailsim/racism/leftist elitism/unionism and pray for a miracle. Or, well, a war that blows the city apart and it can be rebuilt after chasing all the people that ruined the cities away from the cities.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, well, snowball, very warm place, what are the odds?
It's cold there in the winter. And the jobs are gone leaving EBT cards and the government dole in their place. It's a brave new world.
ReplyDeleteBeing an almost lifelong SE Michigander, certain sections of Detroit are being renovated, but the vast majority of the city is gradually turning back to native woods. Burned out and abandoned houses are being demo'd with nothing going up in place except brush and trees.
ReplyDeleteBeans is on point. The city has had sixty years of D control and it shows.
And to think Detroit was once a premiere example of American Industrial Power. "The Arsenal of Democracy" and all that went with it. What a shame.....
ReplyDeleteThing is, if Detroit had gone through a calamity that destroyed most of it, then got rebuilt, like Japan and Germany, it might have been able to survive.
ReplyDeleteBut the lack of 'complete renewal' in combination with unions are what killed the Rust Belt.
With you, Beans.
ReplyDeleteAs it is, Detroit's reinvented itself as a loathsome hipster, hi-fenced enclave.
Maybe that's progress, maybe it's not.
Ain't it just, LL, and it's all grand until you run outta other people's money.
ReplyDeleteI was there a few years back, DOS, and it was mostly returning to farmland, except toxic.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is, drjim.
ReplyDeleteBeans, they went off-shore, coz it was way cheaper. And now they're onshoring the cheap.
ReplyDeleteLet's see how that unfolds.
Of course going off-shore to more modern facilities built in the 60's and not having to pay union wages is why they went offshore. Don't forget the environment movement that shut many of the factories down while dropping huge penalties for cleanup that thrashed companies.
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