Quote:
Originally Posted by LMich
I generally think of it, most generally, as beginning south of Michigan because of how the physical geography begings to change (i.e. slopping towards the river).
BTW, there is no colloquial "southside" and people would laugh at you if you ever said you were from the "southside" of Detroit.
|
I wouldn't say laugh, but they might not understand, because they have always known it as delray, and I've always called it delray also.
If you look at where zug island is, it is obvious that it
is a little more south of downtown than west, which would technically make it south, not southwest, maybe south, southwest at the best, and it
is the closest thing Detroit has to a southside. So if it can loosely be called the "southwest side", when it is actually more south than west, like I've said, then why would an educated person laugh if it was loosely called the "southside" ???
"Laugh" is a bit of an Exaggeration, and I just knew when I saw your name, there would be some opposition towards me, go figure. Not trying to start an argument, just stating exactly what popped in my mind before I even clicked into the thread. Anyways, as a person who grew up on that side of downtown, I thought it was strange when I came on here, and saw somebody call delray the southwest side for the first time. I didn't laugh, could have, but was more like...wtf ??? It's delray by name, and a bit more close to the south by geography.
As you can see on both pics, the area known as delray sits slightly more to the south of downtown, than west. My work isn't perfect, but it is obvious that it does, which would make it the "southside", or technically speaking, south by southwest.
As you can clearly see on this one, Michigan Ave. runs pretty much east & west, and then draw a straight line through it down from 8 Mile that runs north & south pretty much, then draw an "x" that represents the nw, ne, sw, & sw directions, which Vernor pretty much runs southwest, and wala, delray, zug island, and its main drag, Jefforson Ave. is clearly south enough of that southwest line. That it is south by southwest of downtown if you want to get technical, or like I've said, more of the southside.
Again, once you get south of the Fisher Freeway, you are clearly out of the southwest zone, clearly. So if it
is more south than west, even though technically direct south would be in the river, still why not quit splitting hairs on that and call it the "southside", or delray is basically the "southside" of Detroit. Once you consider that downtown sits on a slight angle, and then look at the bigger picture, it actually is south Detroit, though not true south of where and how downtown sits, and how the river cuts on that angle right there. It all depends on where you want to start from, the overall city, or downtown. Either way, it isn't in the southwest zone. I hope this clears things up a bit.
Prev
Linear Mode
