Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half-way between Detroit and Pontiac it is a different story. Just off Woodward at Fifteen Mile Road in Bloomfield Hills--the home of those who have made it in the automobile and related industries--is the Cranbrook School. At Cranbrook a classroom may have no more than ten students in it. Most of the teachers could hold university positions. Cranbrook is the midwest's answer to Andover and Exeter. Here a platoon of gardeners work on the acres of forest and expenses of green lawn. Most of the entrances are patrolled by security guards. Dotting the landscape are small...
...grounds are surrounded by a meandering stream and the homes of the affluent and there is nothing in the area that can be compared with it. And each year a few promising students from poor neighborhoods in Detroit are given scholarships to attend, so that perhaps some day they can live in the homes that one sees from the ampitheater...
...peaceful and prosperous Detroit has long been the dream of those business titans who built the city and the surrounding area. Henry Ford II's Renaissance Center, the most recent attempt to rebuild Detroit, is not the first optimistic gesture of its kind. In 1941 Henry Ford II's father offered an unprecendented five dollar a day wage to his workers and vowed he would make Detroit the great American city. Within two years, the worst race riot in America's history up to that time had destroyed Ford's hopes of industrial serenity. Ten years ago, at the start...
After the riot the Detroit Police Department formed STRESS, a corps of specially-trained undercover units, to control crime in the city. The program was discontinued after undercover action resulted in the deaths of at least two minors and a police officer who was playing cards at the time. In Detroit the name policeman is rarely used for law enforcement officials. They are usually called "pigs" or "fucks...
Across the Detroit River from the foot of Woodward Avenue you can see Windsor, Ontario, a city with close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able...