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Transcript of My Detroit
My Detroit (Project #6)
Darryl Heron
Toastmasters- Word Weavers Wiesbaden, Germany
29 February, 2012
About the Presentation
Speech given about Detroit @ Word Weavers on February 29, 2012. Beamer did not work with my laptop, so my audience didn‘t see any of what follows…
We did a reverse meeting when I gave my speech so I also tied in Rüsselsheim to Detroit (not shown in this presentation)
Detroit
What do you think of when you hear or read Detroit?
• Cars and Trucks?
• Maybe some of the bad times the city has been in the past few decades?
• Detroit is so much more
• Today I‘d like to show you my Detroit
The Motor City
You might have heard Detroit called the Motor City before. Besides being home to GM, Ford, and Chrysler there is so much more automotiive history that has been lived & breathed there.
Henry Ford said that you could have the Model T in any color you want as long as its black. The assembly line started automotive production here.
The Motor City continued
Mustangs, Corvettes, and Cadillacs with fins oh my!
So much nostalgia and Americana
How many people really did see the USA in their Chevrolet?
How about Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet?
GM and Chrysler went bankrupt! (I never would have thought
that this would happen growing up)
And Ford was on the ropes too!
City of Champions
In the 30s Detroit was called the „City of
Champions“ because of the success of the
Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and a boxer name
Joe Lewis
City of Champions continued
• The Tigers won the 68 and 84 World Series playing in Tiger Statium (in my lifetime). Now they play in the lovely modern/olde time Comerica Park
• The Red Wings have been successful in the past few decades that Detroit is often call Hockey Town
Sounds of Detroit
Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Diana Ross & The Supremes, the Jackson 5, The Spinners, and Marvin Gaye were all a part of
the Motown sound
Motown Records, sometimes called „Hitsville USA“ started in Detroit
More Than Motown
MC5, The Stooges, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent,
Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Rare Earth,
Alice Cooper, Eminem, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker & even
Madonna comes from the suburbs!
Kiss sang about „Detroit Rock City“.
Many famous musical acts considered Detroit their
second home away from home
More Than Motown continued
Arthur Penhallow , a DJ at WRIf had a deep baratone
voice and used to say that WRIF was the „home of
Rock N Roll, Baby!“ every Friday he'd blow a loud ship
horn and shout, „Its the weekend!“
Who can forget Mustand Sally, that Little Red Corvette,
and countless other songs inspired by automotive
history and legend?
The the City Grew
Hudsons was once one of Amerca‘s biggest department stores and they had ahuge famous store DowntownThey had a Thanksgiving Day paradebefore Macys!
The Henry Ford Museum and Green FieldVillage have helped to preserve some of theglorious history of Detroit (and America)
Then the City Died…
• In my lifetime the population fell from 5th largest city in the US. to 18th in 2010 census
• The 60s saw some terrible race riots, but there was a mass exodus that really started in the 50s. As people moved out to the suburbs and stores and businesses downtown went out of business. The Hudson's down town store closed and was torn down. The name Hudsons now only exists in memories of those that lived in those days
• The financial crisis hit Detroit really bad and Detroit has been referred to as America's 2nd most deserted city
• Theres even a website called forgottendetroit.com
Only in Michigan
The lower peninsula is shaped like a mitten, lots of Michiganders can show you where the come from or lived by pointing to a spot on their hand.
Michigan is surrounded by 4 out of 5 great lakes
Detroit has long been Michigan‘s most populas cities
Detroit, an International City
The Ambassidor Bridge connects Detroit to Windsor, Canada. They're seperated by the Detroit River, much like Wiesbaden and Mainz are separated by the Rhein River where I now live. There is even a tunnel that goes under the Detroit River connecting both cities
My Detroit
Detroit has had quite a history, it brought us countless memorable cars and trucks, it has been a meca for music and brought us the Motown Sound.
Detroit has had many nicknames, been many things. I hope that it will one day be great again!
This is where I was born, and this is my Detroit!
Credits
GM‘s Global Headquarters on the Detroit Riverhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Headquarters_of_GM_in_Detroit.jpg
The Uniroyal Tire on I-94 (not too far from Metro Airport)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uniroyal_tire.jpg
Model Thttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1910Ford-T.jpg
Model Ahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1928_Model_A_Ford.jpg
1959 Cadillachttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cadillac_-_side.jpg
Credits Continued
1956 Corvettehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chevrolet_Corvette_1956.jpg
1967 Mustanghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Mustang_Convertible_1967.jpg
Tiger Stadiumhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiger_Stadium,_Detroit.jpg
Comerica Parkhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comerica-Park-Detroit-MI-Panorama.jpg
Tiger logohttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiled_tigers_logo.JPG
Credits Continued
Spirit of Detroit wearing a Red Wings jersey (after 2009 NHL Championship)http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spirit_of_Detroit_with_jersey.jpgMotown Original Recording Artistshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motown%27s_The_Originals.jpgHitsville, USAhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motown_detroit.JPGHudsons Downtown Storehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JLHudsonsPostcard.jpgMichigan Maphttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan_Locator_Map.PNGAmbassador Bridgehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambassador_bridge_evening.jpg
Be Sure to Check Out
My Detroit @ Pinteresthttp://pinterest.com/darrylheron/my-detroit/
On SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net/darrylheron
Find out more About.mehttp://about.me/darrylheron
Toastmasters Internationalhttp://www.toastmasters.org/
Word Weavers- Wiesbaden, Germany (my home club)http://www.word-weavers.de/