Living there would make you sadder. The City Airport Inn was right in my neighborhood growing up, I had to look at a map to remember its exact circumstances. An airport motel is not unusual, but by the time I was growing up most of the air traffic had moved to Metropolitan Airport outside of the city limits, and the place seemed a little shady. On the other hand, I do recall JFK and Apollo astronauts coming into City. I was born in 1958, pretty close to the tipping point for Detroit in its journey from successful industrial metropolis to failed city; it's been gong downhill my whole lifetime. Probably just as well I didn't really understand that during my childhood.
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- alex 9-12-2014 12:58 am