Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 316 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:46 am: | |
I know I asked last year. If anyone has pictures that they don't mind posting of downtown or neighborhoods decorated for Christmas, please post them. |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 925 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:49 am: | |
I've posted these before, but they are topical: http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/756662 -R1-E012.jpg?t=1194795103 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/756662 -R1-E011.jpg?t=1194795170 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/756662 -R1-E010.jpg?t=1194795198 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/756662 -R1-E001.jpg?t=1194795238 http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/756662 -R1-E013.jpg?t=1194795275 The last two are a bit blurry. I would like to know if anyone has inkling as to where in Detroit this is, and what year. Thanks – Bullet |
Mr_onion Member Username: Mr_onion
Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
I spent many Christmas's as a kid at the annual Ford Rotunda Xmas Spectacular before some stupid roofer burned the place to the ground(like the deep purple song ha) anyone have pics of that wonderful time ,, please post. thanks |
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage
Post Number: 160 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:41 pm: | |
Wow....when were these taken? I know their must be a ton of Christmas with Santa at Hudson's downtown. I will have to dig up mine. |
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 348 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
J.L. Hudson's - 1969 Ookpik |
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 159 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:49 pm: | |
I still think Dexter Blvd. is the street bullet. Funny you posted these again, I was looking at the old post last week! |
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 160 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:54 pm: | |
Does anyone remember them showing santa riding away on the fire truck after the rotunda fire was put out? |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 929 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:23 pm: | |
Nice snap Ook, I haven't seen that display since I was a small fry. I'm still hopeful that we can ID these, Karl_jr. I did check out Dexter as per your suggestion, but came up negatory good buddy. I must say, I like the old Christmas photos that do get posted on DY. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 171 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:28 pm: | |
remind me in a month when it's Christmas time and there are Christmas displays (and snow) for me to snap photos of... |
D2dyeah Member Username: D2dyeah
Post Number: 82 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 5:14 pm: | |
Hudson's was great at christmas, but People's Outfitting was fun too. I'm trying to find my photos of Santa with my brother and me. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 489 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:37 pm: | |
I took these a couple of years ago. Wayne County Lightfest 2005 |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 3584 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:49 pm: | |
Here's one I took from a couple years back.
A nicely lit train rolls through downtown Royal Oak during the holidays. |
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 981 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 7:09 pm: | |
I know it's early, but I'm already excited about Christmas! Hope I don't burn out early. |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 317 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:14 pm: | |
Great pictures. Downtown was really something in the day. I think I remember a photo of a huge train layout, and a bunch of kids watching. Hudson's? |
Elsuperbob Member Username: Elsuperbob
Post Number: 89 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:49 pm: | |
Here's one from Campus Martius from a few years ago.
And for a slightly larger view http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/pamastro/Dearborn%20Detroit/pc018422col.jpg?t=1194928427 |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 69 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 12:31 am: | |
i went to hudsons the last christmas before it closed, wish i had my camera. being only 13 i wasn,t thinking. this year i,ll be ready so in 20yrs i,ll have photos |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 321 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 10:31 pm: | |
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2061 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 11:22 pm: | |
I had a good time running in the Detroit Turkey Trot (unfortunately the Lions lost)! |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 95 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 3:24 am: | |
i did though, i missed the parade, saw 1/2 of the lions. and had to play doctor with my girlfiend,[cut her finger] , wish i had photos of christmas, back when i was a kid i saw 5 santas in one day. |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 323 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:20 am: | |
Did you get 5 toys for Christmas? About what year was that? |
Swede1934 Member Username: Swede1934
Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:50 pm: | |
Those pictures look a bit like the section of Woodward around Webb. There appear to be streetcar tracks visible, and there were never cars on Dexter. |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 394 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:59 pm: | |
^If you're talking about Bullet's pictures, I don't think it could be. The street in his pictures is lined with houses, and Woodward at the Highland Park border is a commercial strip. |
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 1014 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:23 pm: | |
The cars in the first pic look very early 50s. In the second pic, look at the camera the guy is holding. It sure looks like the Grand River-Tireman area. Wracking my brains, what are the streets over there? Beechwood, Dexter, McGraw, Dexter, Linwood... |
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik
Post Number: 352 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 12:34 am: | |
Woodward Avenue - Late 1960's. Oookpik |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 324 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 3:52 pm: | |
Thanks Oookpik! Was Franklin a big Store? |
Lmr Member Username: Lmr
Post Number: 111 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 5:48 pm: | |
Franklin Simon was a fairly large store. It was women's clothing. Before the store in the picture above was Franklin Simon it was Kline's, which was also women's clothes. My mother worked for Kline's from 1942 to 1957, doing alterations, accounts receivable, and selling hosiery and purses in the shoe department (women did not sell shoes then). Mom sold hosiery during some of WW II at Kline's and she said that the counter was absolutely mobbed when they got new shipments of silk stockings in, just like you see in pictures. The Kline's shoe department was not actually run by Kline's, it was owned by a company from New York who leased the space within Kline's store. Working for the shoe department was especially great at Christmas because the New York company that owned the shoe department gave everyone a $50 bonus, which was a HUGE bonus in the 1940's! Kline's sold out to Franklin Simon sometime after 1958. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 105 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 2:35 am: | |
DFD, well back in the day when i saw the 5 santas i know i got 5 candy canes, santa at downtown hudsons, northland , some store with a santa and livonia & wonderland malls. got 5 toys that year about 1973/74. seemed back then santa was everywhere. heck even got draged into a chinese place to eat that day. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 106 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 2:40 am: | |
thinking back DFD, i remember driving past Topinka,s country house when it burned, saying & crying [oh no santa,s dead] |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 325 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 8:19 am: | |
That's great! Was downtown really jumpin at Christmas in '74? |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 110 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 2:43 am: | |
Hudsons was busy. i was no older then 4or5. it was bright and sunny out. went downtown to shop until northland got bigger, the last christmas Hudsons was opened it was sad. empty floors not much a line to see santa. |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 329 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 8:00 pm: | |
I guess Hudsons had a big train display in it's heyday. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2170 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 8:08 pm: | |
Anybody remember the original Christmas Carol from the Thanksgiving Day parades ?
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Goirish1966 Member Username: Goirish1966
Post Number: 35 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 12:07 pm: | |
does anyone know who "christmas carol" was ???? in recent years, tom ryan played santa claus. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 131 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 2:18 am: | |
another thing i wish i had pictures of watching the parade from the vernors building back in 1984, first and only time i saw the parade in person. |
Dan Member Username: Dan
Post Number: 1473 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 3:58 am: | |
My Grandmother worked in the alternations department of Hudsons for 30 years. One of her fondest duties was making & maintaining the Christmas outfits & many of the decorations. |
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 175 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 7:15 pm: | |
Christmas Carol = Maureen Bailey I got a chance to meet her about 15 years ago she is a very nice lady. from Eds' site: http://www.detroitkidshow.com/ Maureen_Bailey.htm |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 333 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 2:50 pm: | |
10 days left! Pictures needed! |
Krapug Member Username: Krapug
Post Number: 72 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 1:53 pm: | |
Some great pics already and hopefully more to come. Franklin Simon was a pretty large chain in it's day, and it's Flagship Store on 34th Street in NYC was a multi-floor affair as large as many department stores. There other stores were small to medium sized. As one poster pointed out, in it's last years open, Hudson's itself could not draw large crowds downtown as it once did. However many loyalists to downtown did what we could in those years (say, 78 to 82) to get people to shop at downtown Hudson's. A few times a car trip to shop at Northland, would somehow wind up downtown, I would deliver the occupants right to Hudson's door and then park the car myself and walk over. Ken |
Southen Member Username: Southen
Post Number: 366 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 10:50 am: | |
These shots arent from within the city but were taken out in Rochester during there Big Bright Light celebration. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2117366897/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2117366881/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2117366863/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2117349701/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2117349689/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2116527366/ There is also this shot of the Christmas tree downtown and the Bagley fountain which I believe ive posted before... http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/2039884478/ and here http://www.ryansouthenphotogra phy.exposuremanager.com/p/detr oit_at_night/bagleytree2 |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 342 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:28 am: | |
Southen, thanks for those pictures. Those lights are so vivid, are they LEDs? |
Gingellgirl Member Username: Gingellgirl
Post Number: 100 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:56 am: | |
I know it's not a still photo, but here's film of the J. L. Hudson's Thanksgiving Parade from 1973 from YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =vFjTUzAXWtc Happy Holidays, all. And happy post 100! |
Southen Member Username: Southen
Post Number: 367 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 6:12 pm: | |
Dfd yes those are all LEDs. |
Gibran Member Username: Gibran
Post Number: 1498 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 6:16 pm: | |
southen again you amaze me...I like the street and snow shot ....great work...Happy Holidays. |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 346 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 8:22 pm: | |
This is cute. Christmas countdown |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 627 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 9:02 pm: | |
- Ookpik - Why do you put COPY on every photo you post>? |
Blueidone Member Username: Blueidone
Post Number: 165 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 10:30 pm: | |
Southen...as usual, great pictures. You have such terrific talent and eyes for great photos. Merry Christmas! |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 893 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 6:36 pm: | |
Mauser765, Toni Urso-Salvador was one of a handful of young ladies who played Christmas Carol, but Maureen Bailey was the original. } (Message edited by ed golick on December 24, 2007) |
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 171 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 9:48 pm: | |
I have two cute little paperback books about Christmas Carol
from J.L. Hudson dated 1955 & 1956 |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 350 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 10:00 am: | |
Merry Christmas everyone! |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 894 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 3:03 pm: | |
The first Christmas Carol book from 1953.
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Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2460 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 4:25 pm: | |
Here's a Christmas picture for you. Four O'Clock in the afternoon on I-696 at the Lodge on a Monday. This road should be bumper to bumper, but it looks like everyone took Christmas Eve Day off of work!
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Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 354 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 3:29 pm: | |
Well thanks everyone for the pictures and stories. Have a good new year with lots of posts at detroityes! |