Seeds in springtime and Christmas cards in autumn. I think I would have chosen the Cox Dune Buggy.
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Lol. The art of deception, doesnât claim they are the actual items one would receive⌠didnât Trump shut down the consumer protection agencyđ¤
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I was in college in Ann Arbor right after the Detroit riots. A class in environmental studies went to Detroit to see what HUD did to the city. In an effort to prevent any future riots, our government went through the historic districts filled with former steel and auto workers out of jobs, who had been angry as hell at being treated like dirt on a very hot summer night when police broke into a Blind Pig (illegal bar- Blacks werenât given liquor licenses) and destroyed it. That was the start of the riot. HUD condemned houses on every other street, moved the occupants to different neighborhoods all over the suburban areas and ruined years of community organization/churches/ etc. The corporations had already been taken over by the Communists who moved manufacturing out of the US and it left the city in the situation that you see today.
My sister lived in a house with a ball room on the third floor, one block from where Aretha Franklin lived, in one of the older areas with a divided roadway, parklike down the middle. A crack house was next door. An absolute tragedy.
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A blight on the landscape, or so it seemed⌠Then it became a beacon of hope and change. I visited in 2010, I did the usual tourist thing but I saw a city that had real potential. Yes, there are amazing ruins to be explored, Packard, 8 mile bridge, The Heidelberg project. But that is just stuff a tourist does, a show home for a city in dire need of massive federal investment. Detroit is a hidden treasure, in dire need of life support and with incredible potential. We will see if Trump really cares about the people that built this city, and how he treats them will be a bellweather for how MAGA really plays out.
I recall watching some home improvement show ten years ago where they renovated one of those large Detroit homes. My, my, what beautiful bones the house and neighborhood had. The area must have been impressive in the 50âs.
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I learned typing in high school. Then for college, I got a slim, lightweight, mint green Swiss Hermes Rocket. It was a graduation gift and I used it to do my whole senior thesis, together with hand-drawn illustrations (got an A+!). I sometimes wish Iâd kept it since it was so easy to use and carry. Had to be a good typist as well as speller since there was no auto-correct!
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I never heard of that brand, those are nice machines:
https://www.typewritertechs.com/typewriters_for_sale/hermes_typewriters.html
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Thank you for sharing this link to an interesting channel (and also the interesting discussion thread that that started).
The theme of old buildings (and also other old and forgotten infrastructure) reminds me, somewhat, of an Epitaph that flared out at me when reading a (disturbing albeit fascinating) historical novel:
Epitaph from page 74 (Beginning of Chapter 4 - âThe Gobletâ) of The Mosaic Book One Leo (by Joseph P. Farrell):
âTell me, I pray thee, how fares the human race: if new roofs be risen in the ancient cities; whose Empire is it that now sways the world?â St. Paul the First Hermit
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I love these folks work, not really sure why but the format is perfect for giving brief but important history lessons to an audience of all ages.
I also love this kind of found footage style camerawork.
I will sit with the quotation, fascinating.
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