Tuesday, May 05, 2020

The Poor Optimistic Buggers Had No idea What Was Coming

Over at Borepatch, both the titular author Borepatch himself and contributor ASM286 have series of the American past as a foreign country.

In a very real sense they're absolutely right, it's a bygone era with only fragments of memories left as to what was then.

Take a step back in time, and look at the City of Detroit's film that it made for it's bid to host the 1965 Olympic games:

Look at the optimism expressed, the pictures of a thriving and functional city looking forward to the future.

They had no idea what was soon to come, or how it would end in wrack and ruin.

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