Screen shot taken from Freep video
Screen shot taken from Freep video
For a while, beginning in 1987, Disneyland used to run a commercial showing a pro athlete winning a championship being asked where he was going to which he responded: "I'm going to DIsneyland" or "I'm going to Disney World."
Well, we're pretty sure they weren't referring to "Hamtramck Disneyland."
JC Reindl of the Detroit Free Press writes:
A large and truly one-of-a-kind installation of folk art in a Hamtramck backyard has hit the market for $120,000, the asking price of its two neighboring houses.
Real estate agent Richard Landuyt said the adjoining houses at 12087 and 12091 Klinger are a package deal, and whoever buys them gets "Hamtramck Disneyland," the fantastical collection of homemade and appropriated objects at the properties' rear that was created by a now-deceased Ukrainian immigrant and retired auto worker.
Dmytro Szylak, who died last May at 92, owned both houses and devoted his retirement years to creating what he joyfully called Disneyland. His creation has been compared to the famous Heidelberg Project in Detroit.
