Airborne Member Username: Airborne
Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 6:56 pm: | |
I worked at Detroit Harbor Terminal when I was in the 12th grade of high school. We made $1.20 an hour this was back in 1956. We unloaded the ships and sometime boxcars and gondola cars. Getting picked to work was like a scene out of the movie Waterfront. Anyone else work there? |
J32885 Member Username: J32885
Post Number: 56 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 1:29 am: | |
Don't know anyone that works there, I just know the old Bablo Sign is still painted on one side of this building. |
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 226 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:15 am: | |
I used to go there and pick up ocean containers,back in the early 70`s. One hot day, a container blew up. Navy beans, moisture and the hot sun dont mix. It blew the doors of a 20 ft container. What a mess. Looked like a bomb went off! |
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 338 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 5:40 pm: | |
Ocean containers and Navy beans... how ironic! |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 428 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 6:02 pm: | |
Mrs. Gnome's father and grandfather worked the barges that floated the train cars over and back. Grandpa worked as First Mate on the City of Cleveland, the City of Detroit and on that George Jetson looking boat ... |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2036 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 6:13 am: | |
My wife and I took the German freighter ( Hapag LLoyd Line) BUCHENSTEIN from Detroit Harbor Terminal for a weeks cruise to Montreal in 1970. A wonderful trip, no security concerns back then so the 6 passengers had pretty much total access to the pilot house, a daily trip to the engine room, meals with the ships' officers etc. Quite a different experience than what you have now on the big, glitzy passenger ships. In the years following our trip, when the vessel came into the Lakes, we would go down to the terminal and meet Captain Stover ( Bremen) and take him to lunch at Joe Muer's for "creek trout" as he called it. One of my very close friends retired recently as president of Detroit Marine Terminal/ Detroit Harbor Terminal after over 50 years "on the job", beginning with high school employment. |