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Dfd
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:46 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:49 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Mr_onion
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 11:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Jazzstage
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Ookpik
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 4:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)





J.L. Hudson's - 1969

Ookpik
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Karl_jr
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I still think Dexter Blvd. is the street bullet. Funny you posted these again, I was looking at the old post last week!
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Karl_jr
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 5:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone remember them showing santa riding away on the fire truck after the rotunda fire was put out?
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Bulletmagnet
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Raptor56
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 4:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

remind me in a month when it's Christmas time and there are Christmas displays (and snow) for me to snap photos of...
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D2dyeah
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 5:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Ramcharger
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I took these a couple of years ago.

Wayne County Lightfest 2005
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 6:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here's one I took from a couple years back.



A nicely lit train rolls through downtown Royal Oak during the holidays.
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Kathinozarks
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 7:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I know it's early, but I'm already excited about Christmas! Hope I don't burn out early.
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Dfd
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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?
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Elsuperbob
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 11:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Reddog289
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Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 12:31 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Dfd
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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 10:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
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Charlottepaul
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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 11:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I had a good time running in the Detroit Turkey Trot (unfortunately the Lions lost)!
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Reddog289
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 3:24 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Dfd
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:20 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Did you get 5 toys for Christmas? About what year was that?
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Swede1934
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Bearinabox
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

^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.
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Gazhekwe
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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...
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Ookpik
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Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 12:34 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)





Woodward Avenue - Late 1960's.

Oookpik
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Dfd
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Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 3:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Oookpik! Was Franklin a big Store?
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Lmr
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Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 5:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Reddog289
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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 2:35 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Reddog289
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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 2:40 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

thinking back DFD, i remember driving past Topinka,s country house when it burned, saying & crying [oh no santa,s dead]
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Dfd
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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 8:19 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That's great! Was downtown really jumpin at Christmas in '74?
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Reddog289
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Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 2:43 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Dfd
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Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 8:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I guess Hudsons had a big train display in it's heyday.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 8:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Anybody remember the original Christmas Carol from the Thanksgiving Day parades ?


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Goirish1966
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Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 12:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

does anyone know who "christmas carol" was ????

in recent years, tom ryan played santa claus.
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Reddog289
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 2:18 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Dan
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 3:58 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Karl_jr
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 7:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Dfd
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Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 2:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

10 days left! Pictures needed!
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Krapug
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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 1:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Southen
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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 10:50 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Dfd
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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:28 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Southen, thanks for those pictures. Those lights are so vivid, are they LEDs?
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Gingellgirl
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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:56 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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!
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Southen
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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 6:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dfd yes those are all LEDs.
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Gibran
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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 6:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

southen again you amaze me...I like the street and snow shot ....great work...Happy Holidays.
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Dfd
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 8:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is cute.
Christmas countdown
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Bussey
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 9:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

- Ookpik -

Why do you put COPY on every photo you post>?
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Blueidone
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 10:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Southen...as usual, great pictures. You have such terrific talent and eyes for great photos. Merry Christmas!
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Ed_golick
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Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 6:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mauser765,
Toni Urso-Salvador was one of a handful of young ladies who played Christmas Carol, but Maureen Bailey was the original.

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(Message edited by ed golick on December 24, 2007)
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Ragtoplover59
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Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 9:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have two cute little paperback books about Christmas Carol



from J.L. Hudson dated 1955 & 1956
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Dfd
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Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 10:00 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Merry Christmas everyone!
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Ed_golick
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Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 3:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The first Christmas Carol book from 1953.


carol
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Ray1936
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Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 4:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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!

traffic
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Dfd
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Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 3:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well thanks everyone for the pictures and stories. Have a good new year with lots of posts at detroityes!

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