COMMUNITY
JEWFRO
The Future Is History: Part II
L
ast year, I went down the rab-
bit hole of the new Detroit
Jewish News Foundation
archive, as much to
understand the present
as the past, and found
parallels that would
make the mad hatter
spill his tea. I'm grin-
ning a Cheshire Cat grin
and going back — now
through the William
Davidson Digital Archive
of Detroit Jewish His-
tory — to see if it can
help me make sense of a
turbulent 2014 ...
munity Park has been in the works
since a determination in 2010 that
the wood structure had reached
the end of its useful
life, becoming home to
"rodents and stinging
insects," as well as being
the source of countless
splinters.
The total cost for the
project is $440,000,
including a $70,000
contribution from the
Huntington Woods Men's
Club. "To ensure the play-
scape's longevity, the
committee plans to tap
specialists rather than
community members to
do the construction."
JN, May 16, 1952: J. L.
Hudson's Gets Green
Light from Government
on NW Center
The new Burton Community Park
JN, May 6, 1994: It's Hammer
Time: Huntington Woods women
organize construction of new
community playground
"From May 11-15, hundreds of resi-
dents, former residents and friends
will put down their legal briefs,
scalpels, lecture notes and lap-
tops and pick up hammers, rakes,
sanders and power saws ... When
the more than 2,000 work shifts,
some up to four hours, have been
completed, Huntington Woods
will be the proud owner of a new
14,000-square-foot playground.
"The Michigan Department of
Natural Resources has provided
a $100,000 grant for the project.
Fundraising by the Burton Com-
munity Park Committee, which
generated $70,000, and matching
money from the city raised the
total to $240,000."
Aug. 27, 2014: Sustainable,
Cutting-Edge Playscape at Bur-
ton Community Park
Incoming 2014-2015 kindergar-
teners, including Mr. Judah Falik,
climbed on the wood playground
at Burton Park at a picnic that
marked the start of their time at
Burton and the end of the play-
ground's. The new Burton Com-
"A new era in Detroit retail-
ing drew near when ground
was broken for the J.L.
Hudson Co.'s huge regional
shopping center, Northland
Center ... Within 20 to 24
months, the gigantic ultra-
modern shopping center,
built to serve an
area with 450,000
residents, should
be completed,
said Oscar Web-
ber, president
of Hudson's.
Hudson's branch
store, which is
the central unit of
nearly 1,000,000
square feet of
floor area, will
be open by early
spring of 1954 if
work proceeds
Cotton Fabric Shop—
on schedule. The
HUDSON'S
center is designed
Hudsons ' ad from
as a group of one- June 4, 1943
story stores, shops,
markets, restaurants, etc., grouped
around garden courts and malls. It
will be a complete one-stop center
where a customer can fill every
shopping need."
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