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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young

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"One can read Teardown and go 'My, my, my! What a horrid town! Thank God I don't live there!' Oh, but you do. Just as ...
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Thursday, September 28, 2017

1963 Corvair On Cortland Avenue in San Francisco. Perfection?

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Monday, September 4, 2017

Happy Labor Day from Flint Expatriates

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Fisher Body Plant #1 in 1937.
Saturday, September 2, 2017

A Strange Place

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"It's not a mystery; it's just the past." — Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
Monday, August 28, 2017

Civic Park in Decline

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A screenshot of Civic Park in Flint from the Flint Property Portal . The purple sections indicate publicly owned property, which freque...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

American

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Harold C. Ford on "Detroit"

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Harold C. Ford reviews Detroit in East Village Magazine : As I drove myself home from the empty house at Rave Flint West 14 at 1 a.m., ...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Flint Photos: Flint Springs Water and Ice Co. Wagon

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Adventure

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Flint Artifacts: Chevy Logo

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