Bombing Hiroshima/Nagasaki

[LabradorBob (Missouri)]

64 years ago,Hiroshima was Bombed,
Showing some pics of it then and now!
Hiroshima/Nagasaki 64 years later,
Detroit 64 years later.

Who really won?

 

[Saturna]

There are many youtube videos on Detroit as well. What a shame all those beautiful Victorian buildings now just decaying in the 'hood. You can also go to Google Earth and do those street-level views where it just seems like you are standing there looking around. Of course, in real life you would not want to be walking around there. (At least not without an assault rifle)

Detroit appears to be basically like a big 'mill town' after the mill closes down. Sad.




Jay

 

[pygmy]

A thought provoking post Bob, but surely nobody lives in those detroit dwellings today.
Maybe those old buildings are classified as "historical", hence their preservation.
Doesn't Detroit have some great venues too ?

 

[GPURS]

Pigiron, Detroit is the smoldering remnants of a once proud city. Shows you the real destructive abilities of labor unions. In other words, Detroit is what happens when you kill the goose that laid the golden egg...... Gpurs...

 

[ivan salis]

long term vs short term thinking -- our wealth bubble was made by the fact we were the only major nation whos industrail base was not bombed during the war * after the war was over all the people of the world needed goods --and we were the only ones really able to easily provide em -- for once the factory owners really needed the workers to be able to make goods ( since once made the stuff was basically already "sold" because of world demand ---so for once the factory owners needed the workers more than the workers needed jobs ---demand for workers was fierce --wages went up and unions demanded and got healthcare and many things that made te late 40's and 50's america the working man paradise. -- it took many years for the overseas countruies to rebuild their factories and train their workforce again --but by the early 60's they were back online with brand new factories built with the lastest methods and materials --while our own factories just kept buzy cranking out the same old stuff out of the same old tired factories --- so we fell behind the curve , and life went back to the "pre war" dog eat dog world it was before WW2 came to the USA.

 

[truckinbutch]

long term vs short term thinking -- our wealth bubble was made by the fact we were the only makor nation whos industrail base was not bombed during the war * after the war was over all the people of the world needed goods --and were the only ones really able to easily provide em -- for once the factory owners really needed the workers to be able to make goods( since once made the stuff was basically already "sold" because of world demand ---so for once the factory owners needed the workers more than the workers needed jobs ---demand for workers was fierce --wages went up and unions demanded and got healthcare and many things that made te late 40's and 50's america the working man paradise. -- it took many years for the overseas countruies to rebuild their factories and train their workforce again --but by the early 60's they were back online with brand new factories built with the lastest methods and materials --while our own factories just kept buzy cranking out the same old stuff out of the same old tired factories --- so we fell behind the curve , and life went back to the "pre war" dog eat dog world it was before WW2 came to the USA.

Interesting perspective that I had not considered that just makes one hell of a lot of sense .

 

[ivan salis]

thank you --folks got spoiled into thinking the "short term" boom caused by the war and its after effects would last ( we were forced to save our money during the war --since everything was rationed" and post war "boom" spending became thought of as the "normal way" of living --the american working man had more money and clout than ever before ** it was a fools paradise -- because we just kept on cranking out the same old same old stuff -- right after the war stuff didn't have to be the best or newest design if it was availble it sold --there was huge demand and almost no competitors to deal with.--so we got got into a "just crank it out" mindset -- we never stopped to update our factories or retrain our workers with the last info -- just crank it out -- and it'll sell was the motto.
our factories aged & our work force got behind the "learning" curve --as the new factories came online overseas -- it was with young healthy , up to date trained workers using the latest modern methods and equiptment ---the"boom" had busted --but the american worker had got used to the "good life" and did not want the old "dog eat dog" status quo

 

[Xraywolf]

Some of you probably know that Tiger Stadium in the pic is no longer standing, they knocked it down just a few weeks back, after standing useless for some years.

I had a whole collection, 100's of pictures, that I took around Detroit of old, crumbling buildings & houses.
Unfortunately lost them all in a hard drive crash.
Heres a good site for Detroit ruins http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm
A bit difficult to navigate, lots of pics of crumbling old buildings for those into that sort of theing.

 

[Xraywolf]

A thought provoking post Bob, but surely nobody lives in those detroit dwellings today.
Maybe those old buildings are classified as "historical", hence their preservation.
Doesn't Detroit have some great venues too ?

Some very few get classified as historical, the majority just rot & crumble, a haven for the homeless and drunk, until they are torn down.
Detroit is getting very green - Whole areas that were residential/commercial use for decades have now been reclaimed by nature.

"Great venues of Detroit" I'm thinking hard hmmm,,, very few.
The center of downtown does have 2 major sport/concert facilities - They had to knock down 100's of old houses to put them there.
It hosts a major international auto show, which I usually work at a few months every year, and which is not in jeopardy of being lost to another city.
Downtown is fine, fairly clean and safe - A couple miles outside of that though, you would be inclined to turn around and go back the other way, if you know what I mean.
I have done some detecting in this area, it is pretty rough.