I love old photos! I can spend hours going through them. I have family from Detroit as well! My grandmother used to have the most amazing house in a part of the city called Indian Village. The house was amazing and had so many sets of stairs! All my family left during the riots and sold up, it got pretty bad. I was so sad as I was younger so only have vague flashes of the houses. I was just a child when I went and it was already considered scary, the early 70s. Thanks for sharing and interesting story too.
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I love old photos too. I just did a Google of Indian Village. That must have been a totally awesome place to be! I've heard some about the riots (I learned Canadian history) and thought previously that it would have been really awful to try being a neutral bystander. Because of the Los Angeles rioting that they've had in the past it always kind of stuck in mind that it only happens in neighborhoods that already tend to be on the bad side and generally speaking it didn't affect the better neighborhoods though (with more thought) I expect I would have been freaked out enough to seriously consider relocating too.