Toledo ( little detroit ) I stopped at the middle grounds metro park on my way home and grabbed this shot from a vantage point that got the whole central downtown area in the photo.
There is a lot of construction going on. Streets are pretty torn up and traffic has been bottled down to one lane each way in places and some streets have been closed completely. So during all the maneuvering to avoid the traffic jams. I went thru areas I normally stay out of. Let me clarify what I am about to say. I worked in Detroit for around 14 years ( actually in Dearborn Mi right across the street from the Ford World H.Q. ) My travels around the city were not limited to just Dearborn. I am not in any way exaggerating what I am about to say. There are areas in the city of Detroit that look like a war had been fought in them. There are gutted and crumbling buildings all over the place , Trash is piled up on the curbs and you can drive for blocks and it is like this. Some areas of the city are to dangerous to even go in ! ( I had a bullet ricochet off the top of my truck cab coming home from there after work on night. I still lived in Toledo at that time and was on 75 south just before the rouge bridge when that happened. Had the bullet trajectory been a little steeper it would have penetrated the cab and I would have been shot. Instead it just put a crease in the roof of my truck (about 7 inches long. ) I was passing through one of Detroit's more dangerous neighborhoods.
The point I am making here is that while I was creeping through traffic in downtown Toledo I noticed boarded up buildings , crumbling buildings ( the bricks from the upper front of the building were laying on the sidewalk ) Buildings that a few years ago were home to business ( now vacant some with all the windows busted out ) will probably meet the same fate as those in Detroit. Gone ! Today about a third of what used to be the richest city in the U.S. is gone. Toledo seems to be headed right down the same path as Detroit. ( Yes if you are wondering....democrats are running the show in both places )
Toledo ( little detroit ) I stopped at the middle grounds metro park on my way home and grabbed this shot from a vantage point that got the whole central downtown area in the photo.
There is a lot of construction going on. Streets are pretty torn up and traffic has been bottled down to one lane each way in places and some streets have been closed completely. So during all the maneuvering to avoid the traffic jams. I went thru areas I normally stay out of. Let me clarify what I am about to say. I worked in Detroit for around 14 years ( actually in Dearborn Mi right across the street from the Ford World H.Q. ) My travels around the city were not limited to just Dearborn. I am not in any way exaggerating what I am about to say. There are areas in the city of Detroit that look like a war had been fought in them. There are gutted and crumbling buildings all over the place , Trash is piled up on the curbs and you can drive for blocks and it is like this. Some areas of the city are to dangerous to even go in ! ( I had a bullet ricochet off the top of my truck cab coming home from there after work on night. I still lived in Toledo at that time and was on 75 south just before the rouge bridge when that happened. Had the bullet trajectory been a little steeper it would have penetrated the cab and I would have been shot. Instead it just put a crease in the roof of my truck (about 7 inches long. ) I was passing through one of Detroit's more dangerous neighborhoods.
The point I am making here is that while I was creeping through traffic in downtown Toledo I noticed boarded up buildings , crumbling buildings ( the bricks from the upper front of the building were laying on the sidewalk ) Buildings that a few years ago were home to business ( now vacant some with all the windows busted out ) will probably meet the same fate as those in Detroit. Gone ! Today about a third of what used to be the richest city in the U.S. is gone. Toledo seems to be headed right down the same path as Detroit. ( Yes if you are wondering....democrats are running the show in both places )