In 1984, the Pontiac Fiero was built in Pontiac. I wanted a Fiero. I also read Orwell's 1984 in 1984.
Started in a basement under 123 N Saginaw - downtown Pontiac. 123 N...et. Interesting. But why did they choose downtown Pontiac? Location + the biggest Pipe of telecom capabilities in the entire region. And why is this telecom systems in Pontiac? It is atop Woodward Avenue, in the center of the region and 26 miles from the US-Canada border. Important data resources like these need to be located more than 25 miles from our national borders.
Around 1989, I learned that I could look older enough to drink if I ordered scotch. I was trying to blend into the Detroit Yacht Club bar scene when I met Beth Sacks, the wife of the new director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. She and I had both just moved to Detroit from more 'nature filled' places. I grew up in between Atwood and Norwood (aka near Charlevoix) on acres of natural and planted christmas trees.
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The Indian Hill Wine Cellar recently sold a fine bottle of Krug champange for a NYE celebration for a fine market price of $387. In 1914, $385 would have bought you a Engler Cyclecar, one of the vehicles produced in downtown Pontiac in that time. |
Can the American worker compete with low wage countries around the Globe? Some people ask if we 'want to compete'. For displaced, under educated and out of work people in cities like Pontiac and Flint - the answer is 'yes, we want those manufacturing jobs back in America'. |
"The indians never camped here." My Dad would tell us when we were being bitten by bugs. Because the Indigeninous people of any land know the best real estate. The Indians of North America preferred hill tops to valleys and swampland. Floods, bugs but not game were along the river banks. The indians must have been curious why the newcomer white man would settle so close to the shore. |
Madonna never slept here, but she likely partied in downtown Pontiac before 1999. |
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