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A flashing red light jolts me back to the train station’s razor wire and rubble. A fire engine pulls up alongside me.

“Anything wrong, officer?” I ask, nervously. Maybe they think I’m a scrapper.

“Naaah,” says Ladder 28’s Capt. Robert Distelrath, with the backslapping, broada’s of the Midwest. “Just checking things out. What are you doing?”

I tell him I’m here because I hear Detroit is coming back.

Distelrath grins. “There’s more to us than this train station. Go to Slows Bar BQ,” he says, pointing into Corktown, the neighborhood bordering the station. “The owner, Phillip Cooley, he’s at the center of a lot of things. He’s trying to bring Detroit back all by himself.”

Rise and Shine Detroit. Source.

This article has some of the most beautiful, evocative, and true language describing Detroit that I’ve ever read.  And I’ve read a lot.  This blog is proudly imported from Detroit.

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   aaron, at my last job, used to sing the praises of Slow’s on the regular, hahaha.

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    Being from Detroit this is amazing. So ready to go home. And I

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    come visit us! you won’t regret it.

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