Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 293 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:57 am: | |
The building appears to be a rectory. For a larger version of the photo, please click here. Ookpik |
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch
Post Number: 132 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
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 |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 186 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:13 pm: | |
http://freepages.genealogy.roo tsweb.com/~detroitchurches/pag e29.htm |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1520 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:19 pm: | |
rather pensive looking bride |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 920 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 12:23 pm: | |
I was thinking the same thing 56packman.I guess she is not looking forward to the wango tango after the reception... |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 187 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:07 pm: | |
If the groom is any of the guys in the picture, I wouldn't blame the bride for being pensive! : D |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 922 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:14 pm: | |
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 Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1180 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:21 pm: | |
Or he's wiggling his tongue at her and making a noise like Zoidberg. |
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 294 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 1:33 pm: | |
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) |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1522 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:02 pm: | |
The big question: is it the "Grand opening", or just "Open under new management"? I think the goofy looking dude is a wedding crasher |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 925 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:05 pm: | |
I suspect it is the Grand Opening. |
Waz Member Username: Waz
Post Number: 110 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:16 pm: | |
Not a very happy group. Only one bridesmaid is smiling. |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 926 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:26 pm: | |
This poor gal looks like she is totally miserable.
(Message edited by quozl on July 16, 2007) |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 2069 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:38 pm: | |
Maybe it was a "shotgun" wedding? |
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch
Post Number: 133 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 2:45 pm: | |
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? |
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 153 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 3:04 pm: | |
""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. |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 188 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 3:28 pm: | |
All of these people are likely ded by now. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1657 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 4:26 pm: | |
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? |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 189 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:06 pm: | |
Maybe the snarling young gurl felt stoopid with plants in her hare. |
Terridarlin Member Username: Terridarlin
Post Number: 25 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:41 pm: | |
The whole slinky thing very funny. |
Scottr Member Username: Scottr
Post Number: 612 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 8:06 pm: | |
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? |
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 295 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 8:44 pm: | |
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. Ookpik |
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 296 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 10:13 pm: | |
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. Ookpik |
Scottr Member Username: Scottr
Post Number: 613 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 10:35 pm: | |
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. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1525 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:22 pm: | |
We had one about that age in our wedding--the day wasn't all about her, same result |