TOD - I mourn the loss of the entire city of Detroit, which was a wonderful place in the '50s and '60s. Specific places include the downtown J. L. Hudson department store which was imploded in 1998 and the Ford Rotunda which, technically, was in Dearborn. It had been Ford Motor Company's exhibit space at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair and figures in my earliest memories. After a remodeling it was opened to the public to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ford on June 16, 1953 - the very day that my family moved to Detroit from Portland, Oregon. The building was adorned like a cake with 50 huge candles. From then on, it was a tradition to go there for the Christmas festival, with displays, performances, and, of course, Santa. The Ford Rotunda burned to the ground on November 9, 1962.