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Detroit Alley Cleanup Program Surpasses 500 in First Year
- rmason 6y agoThis is both proof of how far Detroit had fallen and at the same time a sign that it is slowly recovering. Detroit is full of alleys, the vast majority can no longer be traversed. As a kid I do remember trash trucks moving along the alley. I also remember a black man with a horse and wagon who bought scrap metal and rags. He would ring a bell, my Mother didn't always have something to sell but she would always come out and visit. He also acted as a neighborhood sentinel and if he saw a crime being committed he would get someone to call it in. As a young kid we'd use the alleys as our own private system of trails. I never saw the city kept them clean but I'm assuming they did. Then sometime in the eighties it stopped. Then a dozen years later they stopped mowing the grass in the city parks.