Talk:Alter Road

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[edit] Anon's views

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HELLO, MY NAME IS TOM ...... ( TODAY'S DATE IS JUNE 13, 2007 ) ... RIGHT NOW, I WISH TO SHED SOME ADDITIONAL HISTORICAL LIGHT ON ALTER ROAD ..... I'm 60 years old at present .... I grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan... LITERALLY, I grew up on the border-line between Detroit and Grosse Pointe (yes ... Alter Road was the border-line between those two municipalities ... ) .... Anyway, I think it's important to note that the major significance of Alter road, lies mainly in the fact that it's the dividing line between Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park ( one of five communities labeled Grosse Pointe. --- Just for the record ... there's FIVE Grosse Pointes : >>> Grosse Pointe Park; Grosse Pointe City; Grosse Pointe Farms; Grosse Pointe Woods; and Grosse Pointe Shores ...) But frankly, that's secondary ...... What's really important here, is that I'm trying to shed some light on the earlier history of Alter Road. I'll try my best to give you an accurate picture of what Alter Road was like in the 1950's and 1960's -------- Above all else, You must understand that Alter Road was bordered on one side by residential / commercial neighborhoods... ( i.e. Grosse Pointe ) but on the other side, Alter Road was bordered by a small recreational (residential) boating canal on the Detroit side... ( named Fox Creek ).... Yes ... In fact, That's possibly Alter Road's greatest legacy .... Fox Creek ran north/south from Jefferson Avenue to the Detroit River ... Here's a picture ...... .... On the Detroit side of the canal, you had modest homes with simple boat docks in their back yards ..... Mainly, they were small, modest family homes with ordinary boats adjacent to their back yards .... But in steep contrast ... On the Grosse Pointe side ... There was a 6-foot high LEVEE ... I don't know what else to call it ... It was a sandy, rocky, hilly, mound of yellow, sandy dirt which ran north south, all the way from East Jefferson Avenue to the very outlet of Fox Creek... where it emptied into the Detroit river ......Most popularly, way back in the Late 50's and early 60's ... Youngsters used to ride their bicycles atop that levee ... Alter Road was nothing less than a legend back then ....... There were several small traffic bridges which crossed Fox Creek .... I still remember the Korte Avenue bridge... the Klenk Avenue bridge... and the final bridge ... which crossed Fox Creek at the old Veteran's Hospital ...

--Rajah 08:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

This sentence is pretty disturbing and I would consider deleting it as racist, whether intentional or not: "The southeastern corner of Detroit was majority Caucasian at the time (as was Detroit as a whole) and did not suffer the urban decay which plagues much of Detroit currently." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.103.79 (talk) 05:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)