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Shrinking Cities

Shrinking Cities
Flint is among more than 450 cities worldwide that have lost 10 percent or more of their population since 1950.

Where Are You?

Flint has suffered a massive population exodus over the years. If you're from Flint but now living somewhere else, you've probably experienced the mixture of excitement and sadness you feel when you run into somebody from Flint in Portland or Miami or San Francisco or Little Rock or Alaska. (OK, some of the people you run into from Flint induce a little fear, as well, but that just reminds you of home.) Sometimes it seems like Flint residents are everywhere...except Flint. I've lived all over since I left town, and it's amazing to me how often I find myself talking to someone about the Rusty Nail or the terrors of the Dupont Street bus. If I wear my Angelo's Coney Island hat, it's inevitable that a Flint refugee will initiate a conversation.

This blog is just a way to pass along news from Flint and, I hope, for Flint expatriates to connect.

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Flint Artifacts

  • Central High Letter Sweater
  • Patch & Ball Gun Club Button
  • Smith-Bridgman's Stationary
  • 1960 Longway Planetarium — Sounds from the Space Beyond
  • Concordia 76 Soccer Patch
  • Corvair Mania at the Sloan Museum
  • Autoworld Mug
  • Stroh's Indy 500 Advertisement
  • Blue Oyster Cult/REO Speedwagon at Sherwood Forest Concert Poster
  • James Incorporated Label
  • Stroh's Beer Belt Buckle
  • Buick Employee Badge
  • Progressive Flint
  • Citizens Bank Matchbook
  • 1931 Northern High School Patch
  • Farm Motel
  • 1972 Fisher Body Service Manual
  • Buick Ashtray
  • Buick Electra
  • Buick Patch
  • Chevette
  • Dance Flyer
  • Daniel O'Sullivan Model School
  • Drifter Motel Key
  • Flint Community Schools Summer Program
  • Flint Motor Company Stock Certificate
  • G.M. Patch
  • G.M. Trucks Patch
  • Genesee County Circuit Court Juror
  • I.M.A Safetyville
  • Live 105 Rock Card
  • Longway Planetarium Laser Hits
  • Powers High School Detention Notice
  • Stroh's Beer
  • WTAC Big 600 1967 Playlist

Urban Planning Information

  • Shrinking Cities Institue
  • National Vacant Properties Campaign
Flint Population Trends
Census Pop.
%±
1860 2,950
—
1870 5,386
82.6%
1880 8,409
56.1%
1890 9,803
16.6%
1900 13,103
33.7%
1910 38,550
194.2%
1920 91,599
137.6%
1930 156,492
70.8%
1940 151,543
−3.2%
1950 163,413
7.8%
1960 196,940
20.5%
1970 193,317
−1.8%
1980 159,611
−17.4%
1990 140,761
−11.8%
2000 124,943
−11.2%
Est. 2007 114,662
−8.2%

Rust Belt Roundup

  • The Heidelberg Project
  • Rust Belt Bloggers
  • Cleveland: Cleveburh Diaspora

Polish Pride

Polish Pride
Button courtesy of Eric Koziol

Flint Links

  • Andrew Heller-Flint Journal Columnist
  • Capitol Theatre Renovation Project
  • Carriage Town Historic Neighborhood Assoc.
  • Channel 12 TV
  • Charles Steward Mott Foundation
  • Cultivating Our Community
  • East Village Magazine
  • Every Bar in Flint
  • Farmer's Market
  • Flinn's Journal
  • Flint Club
  • Flint Creative Alliance
  • Flint History
  • Flint Homes for Sale
  • Flint Institute of Arts
  • Flint Journal
  • Flint Photo Gallery
  • Flint Public Library
  • Flint River Watershed Coalition
  • Flint Underground Music Archive
  • Free From Editors: An inside look at The Flint Journal
  • Genesee Institute
  • Genesse County Land Bank
  • IMA
  • Joe Lawlor: Flint City Beat
  • Michael Moore
  • Southwestern High School Reunion
  • UM Flint Student Newspaper
  • Unemployment Stats for Flint
  • Urban Flint
  • Williamson Watch

Former Flintoid Blogs

  • All Things Buick
  • The Starry Messenger
  • Purple Glitter on a Sea of Velvet
  • Night Blind
  • Yoopternal Wanderings
  • Luna Pier Cook
  • Port Reporter Unlimited
  • The World According to Sylvia Garza
  • World o' Jeff

Flint Portraits

A series of posts on Flint writers, artists and interesting people:

Nancy Kovac
Larry O. Dean
Ben Hamper
Christopher Paul Curtis
Erica Olsen
Sam Issac
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Tracy Murphy
Gerry Godin
Dissonance
Mark Brewer

Autoworker Activists

  • Center for Labor Renewal
  • Factory Rats Unite
  • Soldiers of Solidarity
  • Future of the Union

Links I Like

  • Our Social Brains
  • Journalist Novella Carpenter covers urban farming
  • The Giant Bee Journal: A strange baseball blog
  • Great Lakes Guy: Tracking the ideas and trends moving America's Rust Belt from the Industrial Era to the Digital Age, or not
  • girlinthegreendress: A great blog about art and design
  • What's it like to be raised in Las Vegas and live in San Francisco?
  • Goldilocks Finds Manhattan
  • A Scottish expat reflects on life in America
  • J Linx: A blog about journalism and how it's changing
  • Coney Detroit: A guide to all things hot dog
  • Chimichangas at Sunset: The world according to Greg Bardsley
  • Gordon Young's webpage with journalism clips
  • Jack Gillum: Computer-Assisted Reporting

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      • Vote for the Flint Farmer's Market
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      • Flint Bloggers at Work
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St. Mary's Grade School

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"I grew up on the Eastside and recall the unexplained pride I felt when the 3:30 Buick factory whistle blew and the roughly dressed workers poured out of the General Motors labyrinth swinging their lunch pails. Some were headed for home and some for the corner bar, but all with the determined step of an army after a battle won. I somehow felt as if I were a part of this giant assembly line and the city it fed."

— Pat McFarlane, Flint Central Class of 1948