[closure]

The author doesn't state her father's age or when he lived on Linnhurst.

My father, now 82, lived on that block from birth until his late 20s or early 30s. He went back 20 years ago for the first time in 30 years and was shocked and saddened by what he saw.

[rmason]

My father is 100 and the houses he lived in as a kid (the majority of that time on West Grand Boulevard) are all gone. All those houses and that of my great grandfather were all there in 2007. In fact the house my 5x great grandfather built in 1855 was there in the late nineties.

In Detroit the recession of 2008 was called Katrina without the water. My friends in New Orleans find that hard to believe but when you see the devastation that was wrought on entire neighborhoods you'd believe it.

This blog documents it as well as most:

http://www.goobingdetroit.com/