Detroit may be 200 years old, but it quadrupled in size from 1910-1930, mostly because of the auto industry. There were already carriage works, (the reason car manufacturing took off here) as well as cigars, coal stoves and a pharmaceutical business. Most of Detroit was centered around the Downtown areas (although there were some farmhouses and little villages inside the present city limits.) There were interurban lines (streetcars that run between cities) by the early 1900s. Up in Rochester, the Downtown has some really old buildings because of this, but the rest of it is modern. There were lines running up Grand River, Gratiot, Michigan Avenue, and Woodward. Around the 1950s, Detroit peeked at 1.8 million residents, and has been in a downhill slide ever since.
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As someone who was born and reared in NW Detroit, I found this discussion very illuminating. Thanks so much!
Many thanks. Very useful and interesting.
Detroit may be 200 years old, but it quadrupled in size from 1910-1930, mostly because of the auto industry. There were already carriage works, (the reason car manufacturing took off here) as well as cigars, coal stoves and a pharmaceutical business. Most of Detroit was centered around the Downtown areas (although there were some farmhouses and little villages inside the present city limits.) There were interurban lines (streetcars that run between cities) by the early 1900s. Up in Rochester, the Downtown has some really old buildings because of this, but the rest of it is modern. There were lines running up Grand River, Gratiot, Michigan Avenue, and Woodward.
Around the 1950s, Detroit peeked at 1.8 million residents, and has been in a downhill slide ever since.
And 10 years later it has gotten worse. Thank you blacks
detroit sucks now
Yep, the blacks destroyed it
Yep, the blacks destroyed it
Sorry to say but, snooze fest.