Msu4two Member Username: Msu4two
Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 9:55 pm: | |
Hi, does anyone remember the Northwood Inn on Woodward and Catalpa in Berkley? My son is doing a research paper on what is now a medical building there. We found out that it used to be the Northwood Inn, and then it became The Old Spaghetti Factory. Does anyone know around which years it was either one of these restaurants? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Robin |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2725 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 10:23 pm: | |
Welcome, Msu4two!! We remember The Old Spaghetti Factory in the mid- to late-1980s. And Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle was in the Factory "complex". Saw comedians Robert Wuhl and Bob Saget there in May 1988. Within a couple years, the place had burned down. Have you been in touch with the Berkley Public Library (http://www.berkley.lib.mi.us/) or Berkley Historical Museum (http://www.berkleymich.org/web /museum.asp)? |
Goblue Member Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1000 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 11:05 pm: | |
I took my prom date to the Northwood Inn in 1959. |
Jenniferl Member Username: Jenniferl
Post Number: 419 Registered: 03-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 11:59 pm: | |
I remember eating at the Spaghetti Factory when I was a kid. This would have been in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The medical building went up sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s. |
Cmubryan Member Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 520 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 11:00 am: | |
I too ate at the Spaghetti Factory in the 80s as a kid with my parents. I remember when it went out of business and became the Comedy Castle. I believe the medical building had a big grand opening which I went to sometime in the early 90s. |
Polaar Member Username: Polaar
Post Number: 24 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
From a postcard.
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Jman Member Username: Jman
Post Number: 110 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:42 pm: | |
We use to go there in the 40's and 50's. Great frog legs! |
Msu4two Member Username: Msu4two
Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:27 pm: | |
Thanks so much for all the great memories, and all your help......we really appreciate it! |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2731 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 1:35 am: | |
Spoke with someone tonight who mentioned that Ozzie and Harriet Nelson appeared at the Northwood Inn way back when. |
Adamjab19 Member Username: Adamjab19
Post Number: 823 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 7:54 am: | |
I live 5 houses down from that corner! Didn't realize what used to be there. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2732 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:35 am: | |
Even the present medical building has history!! Now called Northpointe Medical Plaza, it originally was populated with mostly or all Providence Hospital doctors and services. I belive that most, if not all of its "residents," are associated with Beaumont Hospital. |
Ced Member Username: Ced
Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:52 pm: | |
Have you tried the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library's main building? |
Msu4two Member Username: Msu4two
Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 5:27 pm: | |
No, I haven't been to the Burton Historical Collection.....we'll have to take a trip there to see what information is available. My son and husband visited the Berkley Historical Museum today. There was a great deal of info on the Northwood Inn, but not much on the Old Spaghetti Factory. I guess it was only there for a few years. The Northwood Inn was supposed to have wonderful food, and they were known for their frog legs, as someone had mentioned they enjoyed there. It's too bad they're gone, it looked like a beautiful restaurant. If anyone knows where I might find a picture of the Old Spaghetti Factory, please let me know. Thanks so much!! |
Aiw Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6519 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 5:42 pm: | |
There is a chain of restaurants in Canada called the Old Spaghetti Factory. I have eaten at one on the west coast, there is also one in Toronto, any relation? http://www.oldspaghettifactory .ca/ |