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Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.
The "chicken wire" was removed in the mid-1960s after the dome leaked. That's when it got the standing seam aqua color we know today.
ReplyDeleteI work for Longway Planetarium. Thanks a bunch for posting these photos. I had not seen them before.
ReplyDeleteWho was Robert T. Longway?
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