http://www.rethinkdetroit.org Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:22:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.rethinkdetroit.org/2010/02/06/scenes-from-1954-detroit/ http://www.rethinkdetroit.org/2010/02/06/scenes-from-1954-detroit/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:20:38 +0000 Cooper http://www.rethinkdetroit.org/?p=146 Someone posted these clips of Detroit in 1954 to You Tube recently. In many ways, downtown looks much the same today as it did then. Most of the stores have closed, and some of the buildings have been lost to the wrecking ball, but the basic infrastructure hasn’t really changed. What’s missing are the crowds of people. While I don’t harbor any special nostalgia for the era (my first memory of Hudson’s was seeing it fall on live television), I’d still love to see the day when Detroit’s streets are once again bustling with crowds of people going about their daily business.

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