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Bat’s Squeak

Posted on March 7, 2013, 9:05 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

I knew now that I had a susceptibility. I might never act on it, but I had it. What I did not have, it soon emerged, was a job.

Tags: 1974, 1975, Ann Arbor, Baltimore, BART, bat's squeak, Black Water, Brideshead Revisited, Catholic, Charles Ryder, Christmas, condominium, Confederacy, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Doobie Brothers, English Ph.D., flirtation, Golden Gate Bridge, Goucher College, Gray Line, Guilford Avenue, Japanese Tea Garden, job market, Julia, Mary Ann Singleton, meat market, Mission Dolores, MLA, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, New Year's, North Carolina State University, Patrick Simmons, Raleigh, San Francisco, Southern, Southwest, Tales of the City, Telegraph Hill, Union Square, University of New Mexico at Las Cruces, Valencia Street
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Rusted Out: Some Personal Glimpses of the Tragedy of Detroit

Posted on December 22, 2008, 4:28 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Detroit had my whole lifetime to get this right: Snapshots of the rise and fall of the automobile industry and its home turf.

Tags: Alex Tremulis, Ann Arbor, automobile industry, Automotive Holdings LLC, Bel Air, Bloomfield Hills, Buick, Chevrolet, Cobo Hall, convertible, Detroit, Detroit Auto Show, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Ernest Gohn, Ford, Grove Street, Mustang, Opel, Peugeot, race riots, River Rouge, Royal Oak, rustproofing, shock absorbers, Tucker, UAW, United Auto Workers, Woodward Avenue, Ypsilanti
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