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George Ford School- Sinking School Sunk
George Ford School on Marlowe Street in Detroit is, by now, close to leveled.  After dropping my son off at a Boy Scout Order of the Arrow meeting in Dearborn, I drove by the school earlier this month (January 2006) to find a chimney surrounded with rubble and a power shovel moving the debris.  The first sight elicited feelings similar to those felt in moment between pain and action, after slipping and cutting yourself with a sharp knife.  I stopped the car and remarked, “Damn!”  I’d gone to George Ford School for a longer time than any other school, ten years, from 1958 to 1968.  Later, on the internet, I found out there was a problem with the school sinking into what was said to be an old stream bed.  The sinking school had finally sunk.  I swiped a couple of souvenir bricks from what was left and took some photographs (attached).  Additionally, on the internet, I found a report stating there was a new roof scheduled for the school just prior to its demolition.  I guess, if you gotta die, it’s best go out in a new hat.

Best regards,
Daniel Ziemba

P.S.  I don’t remember the McCarty family.  I come from a large family too, having 4 brothers and 2 sisters.  Our family, after 18 years, left the neighborhood in 1975.  We lived at 11430 Whitcomb at Plymouth about 3.5 blocks form the address listed for the McCarty Metro.  Listing a phone number with a Vermont exchange also caught my eye.  I found out about the McCarty Metro because your Christmas 2003 archive mentioning that George Ford is sinking came up in a Google search.


The McCarty Metro
9323 Sussex
Detroit, MI 48228
VE8-9470

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