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Ookpik
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:57 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)





The building appears to be a rectory.

For a larger version of the photo, please click here.

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Mccarch
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

St. John the Evangelist Rectory on East Grand Boulevard, torn down for the Poletown plant. Ookpik's photo must be later than the URL, as the porch has had its wood columns replaced with brick ones.

(Can't figure out why my URL doesn't post correctly)

http://freepages.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/~detroitchurches/pag e29.htm
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Catman_dude
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://freepages.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/~detroitchurches/pag e29.htm
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56packman
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

rather pensive looking bride
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Quozl
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was thinking the same thing 56packman.I guess she is not looking forward to the wango tango after the reception...
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Catman_dude
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If the groom is any of the guys in the picture, I wouldn't blame the bride for being pensive! : D
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Quozl
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This guy licking his chops while staring at the lovely bride is kind of creepy. Maybe he simply thirsts for what he cannot have:



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Detroitnerd
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Or he's wiggling his tongue at her and making a noise like Zoidberg.
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Ookpik
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Mccarch! :-)





Here is shot of the church and school. Some brick work appears to have been done on the church also. The photos are from the 1940's.

For a larger version of the photo, please click here.

Ookpik

(Message edited by Ookpik on July 16, 2007)

(Message edited by Ookpik on July 16, 2007)
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56packman
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The big question: is it the "Grand opening", or just "Open under new management"?


I think the goofy looking dude is a wedding crasher
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Quozl
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I suspect it is the Grand Opening.
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Waz
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Not a very happy group. Only one bridesmaid is smiling.
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Quozl
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This poor gal looks like she is totally miserable.





(Message edited by quozl on July 16, 2007)
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Pam
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe it was a "shotgun" wedding?
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Mccarch
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If we're getting snarkey did someone doodle on the first photo or is the lady standing in front of the tree wearing a tired-out Slinky on her head?
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""is the lady standing in front of the tree wearing a tired-out Slinky on her head?""

She probably obsessed all day prior in front of the mirror "slinky, no slinky" Seriously that thing must've reeked havoc on the headliner.

Who knows.. her family probably invented the magazine rack.
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 3:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

All of these people are likely ded by now.
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Ray1936
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Assuming the photo was c. 1942 (which looks about right), and the little bridesmaid with the snarl on her face was 18, she would now be 83. Not a far out stretch at all. Besides, I was alive in 1942 and maybe I was there, too small to show up in the photo. Who knows? :-)
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Catman_dude
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe the snarling young gurl felt stoopid with plants in her hare.
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The whole slinky thing very funny.
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Scottr
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 8:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

Some brick work appears to have been done on the church also


More than 'some' brickwork, it appears to be a completely different church from the one in the link Mccarch's link. Not one thing - not the front doorway, the windows in the middle, or the tower - is the same. If it wasn't for the rectory and school being dead-on matches, i would think we had the wrong site. Perhaps the church was rebuilt between 1910 and the 1940s?
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Ookpik
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 8:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Scottr,

I noticed that same things you did. The rectory is indeed the same one although it appears to have undergone slight modifications between 1910 and the 1940's. The church, however, looks completely different. Also, the 1910 picture does not show the school right next to the church as it does in my photos. I'm guessing the church was damaged in someway (fire?) and was rebuilt. This doesn't explain why the school isn't next to the church in the 1910 photo though.

Here are a few more photos:









For a larger version of the first photo, please click here.

For a larger version of the second photo, please click here.

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Ookpik
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 10:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mystery solved! The old church must have been replaced after 1910 but before the 1940's.





WSU Virtual Motor City Collection. Photo originally appeared in the Detroit News on 2/23/81.

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Scottr
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 10:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

good find, my first quick attempt came up with no results, and i went in a different direction.

Awaiting destruction, 1981 DTE Aerial Photos:



Notice the Rectory is gone.

My guess is that the school may not have been built yet in that first photo on Mccarch's link, and that photo is actually from before 1910.
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56packman
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


It's not all about ME!


We had one about that age in our wedding--the day wasn't all about her, same result

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