Sunday, January 30, 2011

Flint Photos: What's Left Behind

I've been through a lot of abandoned Flint homes in the past two years. It's always worse when there's some remnant left behind, some reminder of happier times.








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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2011 at 5:33 AM

    Every item left is a story worth telling.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2011 at 6:24 AM

    So THAT is where my football and jacket went!

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  3. THE FLINT SKINNYJanuary 31, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    If they are abandoned, do you keep what was left? If so, any chance I can take that jacket off your hands in exchange for a donation to Flint Expats?

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  4. Dave McDonaldJanuary 31, 2011 at 10:36 AM

    Twenty to twenty-five years ago that UofM stuff would not have been left behind

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  5. Gordon YoungJanuary 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM

    Flint Skinny, I think what you're describing is known as looting. Not my thing. I left everything as is.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    There's a lot of stories like this in Detroit, also. "Gran Torino" scenes come to mind. People become too sick or too old and don't want to move until they die or are no longer able to take care of themselves. If they were lucky, they didn't get beat up, robbed, and killed by gangs first.

    From what is left behind, these appear to have been fine family people. It's always sad also to find out what happens to family pets, even if they are cared for well by others, end up in shelters and are not found starving, cold and sick in the houses left due to illness or death.

    Just sad all around.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2011 at 9:09 AM

    Are you sure it was abandoned??..............

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  8. Gordon YoungFebruary 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM

    Yes, it was a bank foreclosure and the residents had reportedly moved to Georgia. And this was not an unusual amount of stuff left behind. Some houses are filled with household items, almost as if the family just got up and left.

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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.

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