Detroit Hustles Harder: Article in NYT touches heart of Wilbo, member of the #DetroitDiaspora, six years out of Detroit.
There's some tee shirts you can earn in Detroit. One is sold at Lucky Seven in Royal Oak, Michigan: I'm so bad, I vacationed in Detroit. I also like these choice mottos: "Welcome to Detroit. Sorry we missed you". "Detroit: Where the Weak are Killed and Eaten". Despite my birth in this city, the hospital torn down long ago, I have qualified for this tee shirt. I am visiting Detroit, the suburbs and Detroit proper, at least twice a month. It is bittersweet to remember, I once had my roots there, from 1988 to 2005, from age 25 to 42. I still know that city fairly well, and now I take my daughter on visits to its lovely oases amongst the urban desert. She's been to the top of the Renaissance Center. She's visited Santa Claus at the Scarab Club. She's laughed often and well at Planet Ant. She's had the flaming cheese, the Saganaki, at the Pegasus in Greektown. She's slept in Fort Wayne, reportedly haunted. She's attended the Rockettes at the Fox Theater, and Wicked as well.She's been given a rose in Greektown and had a late night snack of baklava at the New Astoria Bakery. She's cruised Woodward from Pontiac all the way down to Hart Plaza, on the Detroit River. She's attended the auto show numerous times, once on press credentials, and moved around the city on the People Mover. These are basic milestones in the upbringing of a young Detroiter.
During a visit, often I find myself remarking, "this is the town the federal government bailed out when it bailed out GM and Chrysler?" It was thronging in Greektown a few weekends ago, Father's Day, and we stayed in the well-appointed Hilton Garden Inn, a skyscraper hotel peering into Greektown on the south and peering into Harmonie Park and Fox Town on the north.
I'm glad to know that Detroit has a few prestige tee shirst to collect, and I'm making sure my daughter, born in the city at Sinai Hospital, doesn't leave town without a few of these in the moving boxes.. I especially like the Detroit Hustles Harder shirt. It'll go well with the "Made in Detroit" classic, which has been around for two decades now.
Will I ever live in the Detroit Metropolitan Area again? Detroit is everywhere, my friend. It is the city that died to give us the superhighway and vehicles for super good times on those high ways. Perhaps I will remain a proud member of the Detroit expatriates forever, happily among friends who have decamped to Los Angeles, St. Louis, London and beyond. I will always be able to find a warm welcome in Detro, the Dirty D, Detroit, as long as I live.
This is where the hustle covers the muscles: Detroit Hustles Harder.
http://www.aptemalclothing.com/
Made in Detroit:
I play where these Detroiters play
Did Marshall Fredericks sculpt a statue to depict your city Grand Rapids? The Calder is nice, but can you put a tee shirt on a Calder?
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WanderingWilbo is written by Wilbo in response to his travels for business and pleasure.