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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 2:51 pm: |    |
Can anyone identify this old school photo?
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1134
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:04 pm: | |
I'm not sure if this one goes with it, but they were found together:
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Mikem
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Post Number: 3604
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:08 pm: | |
Pershing High. |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1136
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:14 pm: | |
Thanks Mikem. I thought the ball player had a De La Salle uniform. |
Mikem
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:17 pm: | |
I'm shooting from the hip. Reminds me of Pershing, but it's just a guess. It's not DLS; they must be the visiting team. |
Whittier70
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Post Number: 87
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:32 pm: | |
Verified, it is Denby.look at the center windows.Pershing is on the bottom.
(Message edited by whittier70 on March 29, 2008) |
Mikem
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:35 pm: | |
I can't. Like I said, it's just a guess. It probably is Denby. |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1137
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:46 pm: | |
Whittier70 did they ever verse DLS in baseball? |
Whittier70
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Post Number: 88
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:53 pm: | |
not sure on that one |
Hornwrecker
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Post Number: 2003
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 4:09 pm: | |
DLS didn't have a home baseball field, so they might have used Denby's at that time. It might have moved around, like a floating crap game, depending on availability. (I can't remember what field was used when I went there.) Bishop Gallagher used Denby's track, as bad as it was, as home track when I was there. Gotta love the cinders. |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1142
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 5:23 pm: | |
Makes sense to me, Hornwrecker. Having been a soccer coch for many years we did this all the time. Thanks. |
Whittier70
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Post Number: 89
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 3:52 am: | |
what was the name of the asian art teacher at Denby in the 80's?
(Message edited by whittier70 on March 30, 2008) |
The_rock
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Post Number: 2212
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 4:27 am: | |
Miss Saigon? |
Gtat44
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Post Number: 171
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 5:50 am: | |
The flag is at half mast, I wonder what year it was. Couldn't be for Kennedy, the trees all of leaves on them. |
Jrvass
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Post Number: 585
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| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 8:30 am: | |
RFK... Maybe. JFK in late November. No way. |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1145
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| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 8:45 am: | |
My guess is the photos were taken in the mid-forty’s. The second photo shows construction to the rear of the building by the ball field. The flag is indeed at half mast, maybe Pearl Harbor? |
Grumpyoldlady
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Post Number: 37
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
Definitely Denby. I lived across Kelly from the school. Not sure when they added the gym and pool area. |
Bulletmagnet
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| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 9:26 pm: | |
Grumpyoldlady how long did you live at that location? My dentist, Dr. Adam was on the corner near Morang. |
Grumpyoldlady
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 3:58 am: | |
I only lived there a couple of years...from 1980-1983. It was the first house on Cedargrove on th left side after you crossed Kelly. Then moved back to my original birth home on Wayburn north of Morang. Dr. Adam doesn't ring a bell. |
Kathleen
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Post Number: 2811
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 5:36 am: | |
Pool area...My introduction to Denby HS was the swimming pool! Every Thursday night during the school year from 1967 to 1971 or thereabouts was Girl Scout swimming. Went through Beginners, Advanced Beginners, and Intermediate swim classes there under the guidance of Mrs. Shirley(?) Klug.
A few years later, I had Driver's Education classes there with Mr. Majewski or Majeski. The onsite driving course was terrific. My parallel parking skills are a tribute to those classes! |
Sumas
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 8:14 am: | |
Took Drivers-Ed at Denby. They must have done something right. No tickets/no accidents in 39 years. |
Zulu_warrior
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Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 8:42 am: | |
Stirring the Kool aid...I think its Mackenzie High.
The rear angle shot looks like the view from Hammerburg Field. |
Cub
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Post Number: 220
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 9:14 am: | |
Zulu,
It does look like Mackenzie. I practiced at Hammerburg for years. Yep I am almost positive of the second picture with the construction. |
Whittier70
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Post Number: 96
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 3:58 pm: | |
100% not Mackenzie, its Denby. check it out. |
Gibran
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Post Number: 2252
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:17 pm: | |
denby...that guy in the hat was jjaba..sent to spy on the construction..to take back to the westside...yes I believe, there were exhibition games in the early days w/Catholic Schools...Track meets for sure...the only-thing about the second picture is the elevation of the basketball courts on the track side of the building...but they could of excavated them later
there was a creek that used to run near there... |
Whittier70
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:20 pm: | |
There was a creek near Denby? |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1151
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 9:22 pm: | |
So we all agree that the first photo is Denby High School, and the second photo is Mackenzie? I never heard of a creek under Denby. Is that an urban legend, like "Knock-Knock Road"? |
Cub
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Post Number: 221
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| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 10:39 pm: | |
I still believe the second pic is Mackenzie. Yes Bullet. |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1153
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| | Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 10:08 pm: | |
I thought you might be on to something Cub, so I had a look at some of my archived photos taken a year or so ago. Take a look:
I know it's hard to tell in this photo, but the chimney has flat, regular surfaces, like a hexagon or octagon. I don’t think the second photo depicts that feature, although the power house looks similar. |
Gibran
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| | Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 10:16 pm: | |
there was a creek running up Britain..I believe it ran where the park was/is...and went below ground...strange and in the deep recess of my mind ...there was a stream/creek...in a neighbors yard until the sixties..just a small remnant...until the buried it deep into the street....Johnson's yard? corner Britain and Wayburn |
Cub
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| | Posted on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 12:33 am: | |
aaaaahhh! I see what your saying Bullet. |
Bulletmagnet
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:31 pm: | |
I think the fact that the Mackenzie stack also has a flair at the top rules it out for good. |
Bulletmagnet
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:33 pm: | |
Gibran...wadda ya talking 'bout? |
Cub
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:34 pm: | |
Yep. saw Denby up close yesterday and you are right. |
Chuckjav
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| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 6:35 am: | |
Zulu_warrior & Cub....I've always said that Denby is the east side's Mackenzie; some folks might say that title belongs to Pershing.
Easy to see how the photo in question could be mistaken for Mackenzie; a similar construction project added a swimming pool to Mackenzie during the 1940s...and the view from Hammerberg would be just about right. |
Ongowwah
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| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 8:14 am: | |
No doubt Denby, note the "Tars" anchor out in front. I want to say the art teachers name was Mr. Chi. I think he was there in the mid 70's. |
Leoqueen
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| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 8:19 am: | |
I was wondering...does anyone have pictures of the old Commerce High School when it was attached by a bridge to Cass Tech? |
Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 1162
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| | Posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 10:40 am: | |
How long ago was this, Leoqueen? I didn't know there was a bridge at Cass Tech. |
Jjaba
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| | Posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 1:02 pm: | |
Ofcourse, The Detroit High School of Commerce was connected on the second floor to Cass Tech. High Schhol, over W. Vernor Street. Some evidence of it can be seen on the old Cass Tech. bldg.
The High School of Commerce was taken down when the Fisher Expressway went in. jjaba realizes it is hard to imagine Detroit before expressways but some on The Forum remember.
As for the photos, not Mackenzie. Mackenzie is much more ornate. Yes, jjaba learned to drive on the Mackenzie lot and he can parallel park like none other, except Kathleen. We both laugh when we see drivers who have to find 3 spots to pull in forward.
Gibran, let it be known that jjaba has not been within 20 miles of Denby High, lifetime. Post 2252 needs some editing. jjaba, LOL.
jjaba, Cass Tech. Class of '59. |
Leoqueen
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| | Posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008 - 8:29 pm: | |
I started Cass Tech in 1969, just when the ditch that turned into Fisher Fwy was being excavated. I caught the Fenkell bus to school and was let off across the street from Cass. My Mom attended Commerce in the mid 1930's and talked about that bridge, but I never saw it myself; the building was torn down before I started going down there. I sure would like to see more pictures! When I find some I will post. |
Bulletmagnet
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| | Posted on Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 9:32 am: | |
Thanks for posting your thoughts and memories Leoqueen and Jjaba. Only true Detroiters call the expressway (or freeway, if you prefer) the "Ditch". We did on the east side, as I 94 was our "Ditch". It was rumored that the great majority of the labourers who hand dug this road, were in fact west side inmates taken from Dehoco. |
Jjaba
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| | Posted on Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 4:32 pm: | |
Bulletmagnet, DEHOCO took Eastsiders too. Evidence, a huge drunk tank in one of the bldgs.
The 4 guys from the Westside sure didn't need a huge place like that.
The most famous Ditch is Davison Ditch, 1942. It opened about the same time as Arroyo Seco, AKA Pasadena Freeway.
jjaba. |