 
Lahinch
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Username: Lahinch
Post Number: 4
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 1:21 pm: |    |
Just drove by the Fox & Hounds and it is being completely leveled as we speak. Looks like the talk of preserving a portion of it with the new development was just that -- only talk.
Shame. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 3832
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 1:25 pm: | |
just what we need, more non-descript office/stor space |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 2299
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 1:26 pm: | |
Damn, that was quick! |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 3314
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:08 pm: | |
I will boycott any retail establishment that locates on that site in the future.
The end of the Fox and Hounds is a great loss for the area. I was lucky enough to have dinner there about a month before it closed and it was great. |
Lafayette
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Username: Lafayette
Post Number: 32
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:12 pm: | |
Is that where Hoffa was picked up the day he got whacked? |
Crew
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Username: Crew
Post Number: 1383
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:15 pm: | |
No. That was Machus Red Fox on Telegraph which is now an Andiamo's restaurant. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 3981
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:15 pm: | |
"I will boycott any retail establishment that locates on that site in the future. "
How does that help? |
Rax
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Username: Rax
Post Number: 28
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:30 pm: | |
It doesn't. Hopefully when they demo Tiger Stadium you can somehow find it in your heart to swing by. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 3985
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 2:33 pm: | |
If somebody decides to open a restaurant or store in whatever development replaces it, instead of opening it out in the suburbs, and it's a good place, I'll be sure to swing by. I'm not going to punish a private business owner taking a chance in the city just because I don't like the fact something was torn down by a developer. |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2035
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 5:52 pm: | |
When I grew up in Birmingham, the Fox and Hounds was on the SE corner of Long Lake and Woodward, and right across the street on the SW corner was the Kingsley Inn.
Now the Kingsley Inn is up the hill, and the Fox and Hounds is gone.
Time marches on. |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 3324
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 5:58 pm: | |
"I will boycott any retail establishment that locates on that site in the future. "
How does that help?
It will make ME feel better about it, dammit. |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 3325
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 5:59 pm: | |
"If somebody decides to open a restaurant or store in whatever development replaces it, instead of opening it out in the suburbs, and it's a good place, I'll be sure to swing by."
Johnlodge, it IS out in the suburbs. |
Hpgrmln
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Username: Hpgrmln
Post Number: 307
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:19 pm: | |
Good old Bloomfield Hills. Tear down anything and everything old and replace it with something of questionable architectural value.In that area, people do NOT understand that sometimes older can be better. They prefer to tear down mansions with character to replace them with more condos.
Just more of the "more money than sense" situation.
And speaking of that Andiamo, whats going on next door? They plowed down an apartment complex and now theres just a construction site with drainage pipes sitting around? Wierder yet is that they got rid of the slightly better-looking buildings and the dumpier ones still survive. |
Atwater
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Username: Atwater
Post Number: 127
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:19 pm: | |
quote:Johnlodge, it IS out in the suburbs.
But it's on Woodward Avenue. And Bloomfield Hills is not some newly-settled township; it's a historic city that sprang up around Woodward, just as much of Detroit proper did. So I think Bloomfield Hills deserves to be thought of in different terms than other suburbs with less age, less history, less character, less Detroit connection, etc
(Message edited by Atwater on December 04, 2007) |
Jams
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Username: Jams
Post Number: 7158
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:25 pm: | |
Sorry, just missing Psip,
While you're both gone now, I'll remember sitting at the bar talking with you, and as well, those memorable digital conversions you shared with us. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 741
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:44 pm: | |
Took my prom date to the F & H...1959...what a loss! |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 714
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:55 pm: | |
out with the old in with the new.
so goes on life. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5680
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:48 pm: | |
jjaba took his girlfriend to Rena's Pizza on Schafer.
jjaba took his girlfriend to Briggs Stadium in 1959....(you fill in the blanks.)
jjaba, Westsider. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5681
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:49 pm: | |
Did the FBI leave that farm in Milford with Jimmie Hoffa?
jjaba. |
Hpgrmln
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Username: Hpgrmln
Post Number: 308
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 11:42 pm: | |
As of 10:30 tonight when I drove by, its gone. Just a big chimney standing at the perimeter.
I used to ride by that place my whole life. I'll miss that big old castle as much as some of you miss slumpy |
Crawford
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Username: Crawford
Post Number: 185
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 12:02 am: | |
Has its replacement been announced? Please don't say a mini mall.
(Message edited by crawford on December 05, 2007) |
Spacemonkey
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Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 276
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:47 am: | |
I drive by the GM Pontiac Assembly plant at Woodward and South Blvd. in Pontiac on my way to work every day and the entire structure is being torn down. It looks like a square mile of factory area leveled. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 746
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:00 am: | |
"Out with the old...in with the new"...classic American philosophy. Thank God Europe doesn't see it that way. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 3864
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:04 am: | |
I believe GM is building a new facility there to consolidate several units in one place |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 6857
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:40 am: | |
Gone forever is the Fox and Hounds. Hello ghetto mart in Snobbyville Heights. |
Whaler
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Username: Whaler
Post Number: 18
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:57 am: | |
Spent many evenings there with my folks...Growing up in Bloomfield Hills I have seen way too many changes,It use to be country atmosphere..My parents house was on the old McMannus Farm Below St Hugos..We Ate at the Fox twice a month..My dad use to play cards there in a back room..What a Loss but Money talks and has ruined the Hills.... |