i grew up in detroit and i passionately love the big d. some of the best years of my life were spent in detroit, from concerts at cobo hall to swimming at metro beach to driving down gratiot avenue, and i wouldn’t have lived anywhere else for all the money in the world.
these photos are gorgeous but tragic. i visited detroit in october and i have never seen the city in such dire straits, not in all the years of factory closings during my youth. people don’t realize that the auto industry is tied to almost every other major industry in this country. if it suffers, we all suffer from banks to steel manufacturers to magazine publishers (automotive advertising accounts for more than 30% of magazine ad pages). something has to be done to save jobs and to save a city from becoming a modern ghost town…
