Former Southfield Downs Mobile Home Park

Former Southfield Downs Mobile Home Park
Southfield, Michigan (MI), US
Southfield Downs was a mobile home park dating back many decades. Retail strip malls and expensive apartments were eventually built, giving the aging park a unique setting among more modern buildings. Southfield Downs remained popular for poor families seeking good schools and people working low-income jobs nearby. The park was sold about 10 years ago, and, along with the city's other mobile home park, was vacated. It was such a significant landmark that even today, people refer to the new developments there as "the old Southfield Downs land" and some still haven't gotten used to driving by and not seeing the mobile homes there anymore. I never lived in the park but it was so legendary a landmark that I still get sad when I realize its gone.
Southfield Downs was a mobile home park dating back many decades. Retail strip malls and expensive apartments were eventually built, giving the aging park a unique setting among more modern buildings. Southfield Downs remained popular for poor families seeking good schools and people working low-income jobs nearby. The park was sold about 10 years ago, and, along with the city's other mobile home park, was vacated. It was such a significant landmark that even today, people refer to the new developments there as "the old Southfield Downs land" and some still haven't gotten used to driving by and not seeing the mobile homes there anymore. I never lived in the park but it was so legendary a landmark that I still get sad when I realize its gone.
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williamreilly
@ 2020-08-15 19:43:54
I spent the majority of grade school living in this trailer park with my mother and sister before eventually being put up for adoption and moving out of the area. I have especially great memories of bike riding, the Korvette's next door, my best friend Chuckie, Mike Watts and Ronnie Gonzalez, who got hit by a car when we were running across traffic on Southfield Rd one day. My mom would send us to the party store for milk and cigarettes and booze- A handful of cash and a note. It was for sure a different world back then. It may have been one tiny corner in a huge metropolitan area, but it meant the world to me. Finding this post has me feeling incredibly nostalgic.
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@ 2021-05-15 21:46:34
omg...southfield downs...green hill and the famous grave on which we had spritual connections and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwhichs....fright ..many years laughing at what my brain as a child remembered...it was not hill but an ant hill..lololol and slid down the hill in the winter with omg the tar pit where we popped gas balloons forms...what memories ..my best friend Samuel sSamuelson...I left when I was 10 years old in 1967. I never saw him again....what a great Tom Sawyer place to raise kids who had adventure in their dna...what fond memories....thank you i will always cherish that moment of time in my life...Thank you Southfield Downs..!!!!!



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@ 2024-01-25 23:28:40
I lived in "The Downs" for a couple of years in the 1970s. Those years allowed me to grow up and learn what it was like to live on my own.

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