| 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. | 
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