The Economy

A city completely enclosed by Detroit. They just restored the old Negro league ballpark there.

 

Tim Gurner was also the guy who said millennials will never be able to retire rich unless they give up avocado on toast and fancy lattes. I believe they would save on the order of $500 a year if they did so.

 

If that.

 

Hamtramck and Hamtramak are one in the same. There is no Wikipedia mention of Hamtramak, so probably a Muslimization of the original name.

 

The irony of an all-Muslim city whose name begins with "Ham" apparently was lost.

 

Doesn’t exist. Has never existed.

Just Hamtramck.

 

It was overwhelmingly Polish for most of the 20th Century, with a Polish speaking radio station and Polish language newspaper.

My aunt and uncle ran the Dairy Queen in Hamtramck and lived on the second floor. I used to go down the back stairs leading right into the store and make sundaes from the soft serve machine. They even showed me how to make the little curl.

Not the safest place after the 1967 riots, but you could say that about most of Metro Detroit.

Aunt Evangeline, my grandfather's youngest sister, lived to 102.

 

Great job. Good effort.

 

I'm told it's a healthy part of our economy!

 

Those are jobs the 10- and 12-year-olds wouldn't do.

 

I miss Ragu.

 

Thank God in Kentucky they don't let any of those Venezuelan refugees to perform that work,