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The Gar Wood Mansion is just the place to have a Halloween party; it sits perched on the deadly Detroit River, tons of chemicals washing into Lake St. Clair every minute.

November 1, 1970
Dave Marsh

The Gar Wood Mansion is just the place to have a Halloween party; it sits perched on the deadly Detroit River, tons of chemicals washing into Lake St. Clair every minute, built about 1925 by hydroplane racer and motor car Motor City magnate Gar Wood who was rich and famous and more than slightly decadent.

Hundred foot ballroom and fifty foot pool, vast expanses of bedroom and bath, servant’s quarters and for only $800 a month we’ll rent it to the hippies, who can keep it clean, ’cause there’ll always be someone else to rent it, if they don’t. And if not we’ll make it into a ‘nursing home’ and have plenty of time to dump the bodies in the river if no one shows up to get ’em.

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