For Detroit With love THN To the tenacious spirit of Detroit in all of us NT Susan Montgomery Shutterstock
Every Friday after he came home from working at the auto plant my father gave me a boxing lesson Keep your fists up Gordy he’d say holding up his big strong hands like targets Then after dinner we’d listen to the Friday Night Fights on the radio Everyone did in Detroit especially when Joe Louis was boxing Detroit made two things great boxers and cars millions of cars But when the Great Depression came people stopped buying cars Times got hard in Detroit But we still had Joe Louis in our corner
