Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2228 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:02 am: | |
So you think you know the D? What do these Detroit Streets all have in common? Alden Baylis Canfield Ford Gladstone Greenlawn Highland Holden Log Cabin Margareta Merrick Monterey Muirland Northlawn Pingree Porter Selden Spruce Tuller Wisconsin [Cue up the Jeopardy Tune] |
Thrice Member Username: Thrice
Post Number: 61 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 207.91.250.131
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:10 am: | |
They all have vowels in their names? |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 226 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:18 am: | |
EZ. All were Michigan Bell Telephone exchange names. What's my prize???? |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2229 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:27 am: | |
nope and nope |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 938 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.246.13.131
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:29 am: | |
None intersect E. Jefferson |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 5468 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:40 am: | |
Tar?! |
Ptero Member Username: Ptero
Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 4.229.36.158
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:04 am: | |
They were Judges? I'll admit I'm not so sure about Judge Wisconsin... |
Ptero Member Username: Ptero
Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 4.229.36.158
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:05 am: | |
hmm, Judge Log Cabin aka Lincoln? never mind |
Jasoncw Member Username: Jasoncw
Post Number: 101 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 148.61.248.29
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:05 am: | |
Named after people or after location features? |
Kova Member Username: Kova
Post Number: 176 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 141.213.184.173
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:05 am: | |
all touch 96 at some point? all semi major roads in the neighboorhoods. or maybe the roads that KOVA drove along every damn day during his summer job? |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 463 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:06 am: | |
Well, they are in alphabetical order, which doesn't answer the question but may give clues to how he formulated the question - which in turn may lead to the answer, or not... |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 464 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:08 am: | |
All long lost hotels |
Kova Member Username: Kova
Post Number: 177 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 141.213.184.173
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:10 am: | |
they all got those apartments on every other corner?" |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 465 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:20 am: | |
All apartment buildings |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 466 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:59 am: | |
All Along the Watchtower |
Kova Member Username: Kova
Post Number: 178 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 141.213.184.173
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:03 am: | |
give it up matt, looks like well ahve to way a few hours for the answer (Message edited by KOVA on January 27, 2006) |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 467 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:05 am: | |
All alone on the forum... |
Kova Member Username: Kova
Post Number: 179 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 141.213.184.173
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:09 am: | |
ok im not guna post, crap i already did |
Sister Member Username: Sister
Post Number: 15 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:32 am: | |
They all end at the Lodge. |
Leoqueen
Member Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 971 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:05 am: | |
I have the answer! I got it! They are all in the neighborhood that Detroit Artist Gilda Snowden grew up in! Alden is the street directly behind Custer Elementary, where she attended, Baylis is the street behind LaSalle, where she lived, and she had good friends on Log Cabin! |
Scardetroit Member Username: Scardetroit
Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 63.236.225.250
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:23 am: | |
Are they all adjacent to pedestrian bridges crossing an expressway??? |
Merchantgander Member Username: Merchantgander
Post Number: 1523 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 150.198.164.127
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:26 am: | |
They are all streets in Detroit. |
623kraw
Member Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 750 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:35 am: | |
They all turn into different street names at the Lodge...STAB IN THE DARK!! |
623kraw
Member Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 751 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:39 am: | |
OOH - I see it now, they are all on Jjaba's WEST SIDE... |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2230 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:45 am: | |
No has it yet; good tries... Sister and Scardetroit are getting warm... |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 808 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 146.9.52.18
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:52 am: | |
They are all bridges over the lodge. |
Mcnamara Member Username: Mcnamara
Post Number: 23 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 204.22.230.98
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:54 am: | |
they all end at on side an expressway and pick back up on the other side, they do not have a bridge that cross's over an expressway.... |
Northend Member Username: Northend
Post Number: 703 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 69.212.62.92
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:14 am: | |
They're all proud hosts of abandoned burnt down houses? |
Northend Member Username: Northend
Post Number: 704 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 69.212.62.92
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:16 am: | |
They will all be in town for Super Bowl!!!!! If this is a true statement they have in common, I will accept another "cheap beer" coupon.....only if they are still accepted at LJ's |
Amy_p
Member Username: Amy_p
Post Number: 612 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.21
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:17 am: | |
I second Crew's vote. |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1984 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:23 am: | |
every street has been cleaved by a freeway. In some cases one portion is merely an orphan block or two cut off from the rest of the street, in other cases the street continues for a while on both sides of the freeway. In some cases blocks were lost for the freeway construction. |
Super_d Member Username: Super_d
Post Number: 645 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 69.241.247.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:36 am: | |
streets where 'y-t' once resided pre-Coleman Young days__ Before Coleman told them to get the hell out! super d(motordetroit) |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 792 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.18
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:37 am: | |
crew is wrong, seldon and canfield both get cut off by the lodge at least, dunno about the rest....I'm going with mcnamara and rustic on this one I think. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2232 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:42 am: | |
Crew is very, very warm. In pieces the correct answer lies in this thread. |
Lurker Member Username: Lurker
Post Number: 1570 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 65.196.220.198
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:49 am: | |
They are all pedestrian bridges over the lodge. |
Doctors Member Username: Doctors
Post Number: 690 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.42.124.248
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:50 am: | |
They all intersect Grand River Ave. or They all intersect Grand River Ave and touch the Lodge. |
Amy_p
Member Username: Amy_p
Post Number: 613 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.21
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:58 am: | |
They are all intersecting pedestrian bridges over the lodge named after phone prefixes in the CYA era with burnt down houses cleaving to them and will change names after the Super Bowl. |
Scardetroit Member Username: Scardetroit
Post Number: 55 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 63.236.225.250
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 12:06 pm: | |
How about they are all roads that were made discontinuous by the construction of the Lodge, and had ped bridges provided over the lodge instead of roadway bridges? |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1987 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 12:25 pm: | |
assuming my first guess is not what Mr. Lowell had in mind I'll make a second guess. Mr Lowell used the freeway overpasses/intersections/ped bridges etc. on these streets to take photos for this website. |
Zulu_warrior Member Username: Zulu_warrior
Post Number: 2452 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.251.27.41
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 12:29 pm: | |
They are all old indian trails that were made into streets.... |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 2354 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.202.227.12
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 1:11 pm: | |
OK let me try... They continue over the Lodge through the use of pedestrian bridges at varying points from at leasxt six mile continuing through Fenkell... <<<lived on WIldemere down the street from Alden once upon a time... |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1990 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 1:18 pm: | |
ds, porter st? |
Rasputin Member Username: Rasputin
Post Number: 3435 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.73.192.149
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 1:25 pm: | |
How did you know the connect, Lowell?? You been tailing me??? The real answer: I've dated women that lived on all those streets and either had to walk to their homes or run down those damn streets trying to get away from an angry family member (mostly fathers)!!! Black-atcha .... |
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289
Post Number: 1016 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 1:42 pm: | |
They are all streets that the State of Michigan wants to name Rosa Parks after (Message edited by alexei289 on January 27, 2006) |
Dnvn522 Member Username: Dnvn522
Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 204.24.64.25
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 1:54 pm: | |
LMAO!!!! |
Skulker Member Username: Skulker
Post Number: 3466 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.103.104.93
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:35 pm: | |
I know: All the streets where the Mazda has been parked while Ras has slept in it after his eviction. |
Super_d Member Username: Super_d
Post Number: 647 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 69.241.247.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 2:52 pm: | |
7 mile dogs hood'? super d(motordetroit) |
Erichp77 Member Username: Erichp77
Post Number: 167 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 71.144.83.190
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:45 pm: | |
"Um-um-um-um-um, they are ALL listed in alphabetical order!!!" (silent pause) <buzzer> EEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 6556 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.20
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:50 pm: | |
Skulker has walked drunk on all of those streets. Jjaba can tell a story about each and every street from the 40s. What do i win? |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 809 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 146.9.52.18
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:50 pm: | |
They all once had ped bridges over the lodge when the freeway was first constructed. |
Track75
Member Username: Track75
Post Number: 2208 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 12.75.19.101
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:53 pm: | |
It's a complete list of streets with functioning streetlights? *rimshot* |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 2358 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.202.227.12
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 3:54 pm: | |
Hmmmmm the primary construction material for these streets are asphalt? |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 9822 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.228
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 5:11 pm: | |
quote:The real answer: I've dated women that lived on all those streets and either had to walk to their homes or run down those damn streets trying to get away from an angry family member (mostly fathers)!!!
Oh my god, that has to be the funniest shit you've ever posted! |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2233 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 5:15 pm: | |
Rasputin wins! Just kidding!! Lurker is the first to get it totally correct. "They are all pedestrian bridges over the lodge." I hit on that while driving down to LJ's on Wed. night. I thought it would take longer for you to all be unstumpted. Wrong. Should have known better. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 2563 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.79.167.45
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 5:55 pm: | |
Should have resisted, my friend. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2234 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 6:13 pm: | |
Gannon, please don't start sch*** storms. I'm the one that gets stuck with the mop. "Should have resisted, my friend." |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1993 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 7:05 pm: | |
Yikkkes! ya can take the boy outta Dearborn but ya can't take Dearborn outta the boy, I guess ... (Message edited by rustic on January 27, 2006) |
Kova Member Username: Kova
Post Number: 180 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 141.213.184.173
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 7:23 pm: | |
shoulda known, on the maps i used for work during the summer, they had Log cabin as a frigen bridge over the freeway, but when i got there damn thing was always a pedestrian bridge, got me everytime |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 228 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
Good trivia question. Thanks, Lowell. |
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289
Post Number: 1017 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 7:41 pm: | |
I would have guessed it perfect if it was the streets over I94 |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 1994 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.163.181.81
| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 11:08 pm: | |
sniff sniff ... does anyone else smell disinfectant? |