My uncle was a cost analysis engineer. He owned a business in Texas that would run the numbers for developers, telling them how much it was going to cost them to build new, or redo old, buildings.
In Dallas back in the 50's and 60's there was a rent subsidized apartment project that'd housed Whites for fifteen years. His company did the cost analysis for the remodeling job. It wasn't very expensive. Then, the state of Texas decided to move the Whites out and Blacks in. Within two years they'd destroyed the place so completely that it was cheaper to demolish it and build a new complex than try to repair the damage.
I remember him explaining things as we drove past it. It looked exactly as you'd expect a bombed out Black ghetto to look.
In 1973-74 I was a motion picture machine operator in Miami, FL. In '74 some theater chain decided to open an "all-Black movie venue" at a theater in Coconut Grove. Parts of Coconut Grove are very nice. Other parts are n-word. If you've been there you know what I'm talking about.
It was played up as a big deal in the Miami Herald.
So, the big night came, and with much hoopla the theater opened it's doors to an all-Black audience. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
On that opening night the n-words wrecked the place so badly that it never opened its doors again.
Fitz
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