Comments on: Telegraph Road: what happened to America

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:32:03 +0000

I went to Big Cow School in the mid-60s. I was never all that impressed with the kids from Detroit. Many of my wife-to-be’s sorority sisters were Ed majors, and I said at the time, “When these people get to run the schools, we’re doomed.”

P.S. Our local SDS leader lived at home in Lansing and had his mother iron his carefully unbuttoned shirts.

P.P.S. We were at the Aretha Franklin concert at Cobo Hall mentioned in The Big Chill. She had laryngitis and could hardly sing a note.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:34:06 +0000

” river of car noise that would help me sleep at night” – David Graham .

A friend of mine made a similar observation.
Her family moved “into town” when she was young, and at first the street noise really bothered her.
Then, she told me, she realized the whoosh-whoosh was not all that different from the sound of the stream that ran by their old house, and so she re-framed the “noise” to “nature” in her mind, and it never bothered her again.

By: Dave Graham

Dave Graham — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:27:37 +0000

I was born (in 1968) and raised in Pontiac, right next to the north end of Telegraph Rd. I remember Telegraph as a river of car noise that would help me sleep at night…when I moved away I needed a fan at night because I missed the sound! Like some of the other posters I never knew it was about ‘my’ Telegraph…and yet another reason to like Mark / Dire Straits…

By: febar

febar — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:56:16 +0000

The first and easiest way to rig the vote is through the post office itself. I suspect this is the Democrats’ play as well as there will be no way to directly prove any wrongdoing went on. By simply looking at recent historical voting trends of any ZIP code in the country, one can quickly decide which mailed in ballots can be destroyed. If it has a ZIP code on it that previously voted majority Republican, it can be discarded. Let all the others go through and get counted and you should end up with a solid Democrat majority, with minimal to no ballot harvesting or filling in of stacks of blank ballots needed after the fact.

This fraud could only be detected by indirect means, and Trump will be long gone before the necessary statistics are made available. When reliable red-ZIP codes only show a “virtual” turnout of 5-10%, and reliable blue ZIP codes show a turnout of 80-90%, it should be clear that the fix was in at the post office processing level. Of course, the Democrats will be ready to say, “I guess there wasn’t much enthusiasm for candidate Trump as compared to candidate Biden” and “Too bad, you lost”.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:20:19 +0000

“O brave new world…”

Some wax nostalgiac (and why not…).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=1&edufilter=NULL&list=RD6SFNW5F8K9Y&v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
Some despair…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher
Some invent new sports…
https://youtu.be/NMiK6ui_i-g
H/T Blazingcatfur blog (both links)

By: FOAF

FOAF — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:42:35 +0000

“that’s a dobro”

… or steel-body resonator. Dobro was actually a brand of resonator guitar but some use it more generically.

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 06:20:05 +0000

Thanks for the links, Ed. Brought back memories of downriver Detroit where Mrs X grew up. When we moved away from Detroit we would occasionally return to visit her mom. I remember lying awake during the hot summer nights and listen to the plaintive horn of the train far away travelling to the Motor City. Nice to know there are so many (former) Detroiters here. Good people.

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:46:21 +0000

huxley, I’m glad for you! Will you have a garden or stuff like that?

Ed, that was a neat reminiscence.

By: lee

lee — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:47:25 +0000

Detroit isn’t burning because there is nothing in the city worth burning.
Well, nowhere worth looting, anyway.
53 years after its 1967 riots, and it’s never recovered. Lesson learned??

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:19:32 +0000

Back in the early ‘70’s while I was going to Wayne State I drove a cab in the Detroit area for a while, so I spent a lot of time on Telegraph. I have to admit that I love the city despite all it’s problems and like Neumanian I hope it comes back some day.