Carbines and More... Detroit July 1967

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There was a small zoo on either Boblo or Belle Isle, as I remember? The giant slide was memorable too. Oh, and the pleasure boaters mooning the Boblo ferry...

We had the riots several times in Chicago, as well. The worst was 1968 in Chicago, when MLK Jr. was killed. I was a sophomore in High School, and had a 45 minute CTA transit bus ride home (it was a private Catholic school). Shortly after they announced it, the city erupted, and they sent us all home, requiring us to go in large groups. We went through some black neighborhoods, and had stuff thrown at the bus. We were pretty scared.

While living in Detroit in the early 1980s we would ride down to the RenCen are for festivals, parades and such. More than once coming back at night, rocks and bricks would hit the windows of the bus windows. It felt like Escape From New York.They were all thick plastic for a reason. Don't remember many stories of the riots from relatives who still live there for some reason.