I was born in the Detroit suburb of Garden City over 50 years ago and had lots of relatives in the area. Many of my Polish relations lived in Hamtramck. My fath

I was born in the Detroit suburb of Garden City over 50 years ago and had lots of relatives in the area. Many of my Polish relations lived in Hamtramck. My father and uncle worked for Ford. In the 50s and 60s, we saw a lot of downtown, but things were on the decline even then. We moved out in 1966. I came back to Detroit in 1979 as a manufacturing engineer for a company making components for the M-1 tank. Chrysler was the prime contractor, but right about that time, Iaccoca went hat-in-hand for his famous bailout. There were people selling Dallas papers in the median of Woodward Ave. Even then, I spent some time Downtown. The RenCen, Bricktown. But I lived out in Birmingham. I tear up when I see the desolation that Detroit has become.