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The 40s is long before the city completely went to shit, ran annual budget deficits starting in 1961 and had a massive fiscal crisis in 1975 (after most of its
by busterarm 3y ago
The 40s is long before the city completely went to shit, ran annual budget deficits starting in 1961 and had a massive fiscal crisis in 1975 (after most of its tax base left the city) where it was one day away from formal bankruptcy followed by almost two whole decades of being a rotting, stinking, hollowed-out mess.
- Retric 3y agoAnd yet basic city services continued even as crime skyrocketed they still removed snow etc. I don’t know how much of that 75-95 period where alive for, but it was still one hell of a city even through the worst of it.