Topix Underground

We lived near this Michigan Bell building called the Niagara Central Office. I have no idea what went on in there. I imagined rows of women with headsets  plugging wires into swtchboards like in the old movies. I don't know if that's what really what happened. But during the riots, they were dead sure nothing was going to happen to that building. They had sand bags and machine guns on top, concertina and armor blocking all the streets and soldiers all over the place. There was a curfew. I think we had to be inside by 9 or something. You couldn't buy alcohol or gasoline. Detroit was a showpiece prior to and in decline thereafter. Now it's a Third World dump. Same thing happened to every city in the US.