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Paul Stenquist wrote:
I think it has changed a bit. It's a little less quirky and a lot wealthier. Most of the small bungalows have been razed and replaced with what they call "Birmingham Big Foots." Those are giant houses on small lots. And while Birmingham has trees, Bloomfield Hills is considerably more wooded. It's interesting that you note that Detroit never annexed the suburbs. There are even suburbs within the city limits, like Highland Park and Hammtramack. Perhaps that's why Detroit is so segregated. In many other big cities, "integration" is artificial. It's just a matter of annexing white suburbs to maintain appearances.
Paul
On Sep 4, 2004, at 7:37 PM, graywolf wrote:
If it hasn't changed, Birmingham is a strange little town. Kind of an Upper Class slum. You were OK no matter how weird you looked, but if you looked poor (shabby was OK, broke wasn't) you were invited out of town in a hurry. About the only one of those tiny towns surrounded by Detroit (Michigan does not let big cities annex everything around them) that still had lots of trees.
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Peter J. Alling wrote:
And I thought I lived in a strange little town... Paul Stenquist wrote:
You never know who might show up at Starbucks in Birmingham, Michigan. (That's where I found the woman I shot for "The Temptation of Eve" pics that started a big....well never mind). But I digress, this fellow showed up today and he was quite convivial. He had a Scottish accent, as near as I could determine. (It was some kind of british isles accent in any case.) This doesn't answer the question of "What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt (thankfully) but it does pose it once again.) He did say that it was quite comfortable in todays 85 degree fahrenheit weather. So we can only surminse. <vbg>
He's here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2668411
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