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Cklwbig8
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Cklwbig8
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Post Number: 44
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 67.71.65.209
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 3:14 am: | |
im tired too ..good job kraw
cool photos |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3282
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 3:17 am: | |
623 Kraw, find these. You are great.
Tom's on Jefferson Ave.
George's on Washington Blvd.
William's on Harrison.
Hazen's on Pingree.
H. W.'s on Longfellow.
Coleman's on Young St.
Agustus on Woodward Avenue.
Antoine's on Cadillac.
Mad Anthony's on Wayne.
James' on Monroe.
James' on Buchanan.
M. L.'s on ML King Blvd.
Rosa's on Rosa Parks Blvd.
John's on John C. Lodge Service Drive.
James' on James Cousins.
Hank's on Ford Road.
Phil's on Hart Plaza.
Marquis' on Lafayette.
James' on Fenkell.
John R.'s on Williams.
Johnny Fs' on Kennedy Square.
Lowell's on Thomas.
Malcolm's on X.
Abraham's on Lincoln.
Davey's on Crockett.
Calvin's on Coolege.
Al's on Kaline Drive.
Mickey's on Cochrane.
John Quincy's on Adams.
James' on Madison.
Soapy's on Williams.
Theodore's on Roosevelt.
Rosa's on Park.
Albert's near Cobo.
Joseph's on Campeau
Casper's on Wyoming.
jjaba.
jjaba on the Dexter bus. |
623kraw
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Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 832
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 4:47 am: | |
Any old photos from jjaba on the Dexter bus would be sweet. I had to wake up and pee and found one more - EZoner
BTW this thread rocks (I had to edit)
(Message edited by 623kraw on March 12, 2006) |
Lowell
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Post Number: 2348
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 66.167.210.54
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 12:18 pm: | |
Looking for high quality bizarre like "Yetta Boo's Boobs and Buns Hand Car Wash"? Be sure to check out my friend and commercial archeologist David Clements' site.
Images from his recent book:
Talking Shops: Detroit Commercial Folk Art
Photographs by David Clements • Foreword by Bill Harris • Afterword by Jerry Herron
See also: http://davidclementsproduction s.com/commercialarcheology.htm |
Cklwbig8
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Username: Cklwbig8
Post Number: 46
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 64.228.208.168
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 12:26 pm: | |
 sorry had a problem with size on this one. had to chop it up. |
623kraw
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Post Number: 834
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Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 1:59 am: | |
That's the flip side of the "Simply Read" building - Woodward @ Tuxedo |
The_aram
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Username: The_aram
Post Number: 4707
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 141.213.175.233
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 2:17 am: | |
I know it's not in Detroit proper...
But the Exit 69 Big Beaver Rd sign gets my vote. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3288
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 2:18 am: | |
623 KRAW, you are amazing. You've run with these pictures, many so sad, windowless, and in Detroit's ruins.
jjaba. |
Iddude313
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Post Number: 15
Registered: 07-2005
Posted From: 70.236.201.243
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623kraw
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Post Number: 835
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Posted From: 68.41.224.200
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623kraw
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Post Number: 836
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:14 am: | |
A blurry old zoom-in of a postcard - remember Gulf Gas?
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623kraw
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Post Number: 837
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Posted From: 68.41.224.200
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623kraw
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Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 838
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:35 am: | |
This was how many elections ago? The paint still looks fresh...
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Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 8234
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 67.71.58.29
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 10:56 am: | |
...and the CC and Mayors thinking is about as old as that sign. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 96
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 129.9.163.106
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 12:22 pm: | |
Hornwrecker-The man in the Fox theatre photo above is Bill Brown, the theatre's manager from the early-mid 60's 'till about 1981. Brown was partners with B- movie producer Herman Cohen, an ex-Fox usher (as was Brown) who made it big (well, actually medium) in Hollywood producing teen horror drive-in fodder. Herm was the cash, Bill ran the place, and it was under his aegis the Fox became the kung-fu cultural center it was when the packman and friends began haunting the place beginning in '75, quietly doing good until better times prevailed.
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Jimaz
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Post Number: 401
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Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 12:40 pm: | |
56packman, ah! Thanks for that info. Great pose there. To me his expression suggested there was more to the story than just what appeared in the photo. Sure enough, you come along with the rest of the story! |
Hornwrecker
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Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 919
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 63.41.40.22
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 1:45 pm: | |
Thanks Packman, I suspect that Mr. Brown will now be appearing in the background of many a photoshop. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 98
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 129.9.163.233
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 6:21 pm: | |
Hornwrecker-do you remember that silly assed photo to the geeky dude, supposedly on top of the world trade center "right before the airplane hit"--that photoshop/internet bullshit. Someone lifted his image and placed him at the wreck of the Hindenberg, the kennedy assination, replaced the airplane with the stay-puft marshmellow man--that widely circulated email really shut the original idea down!
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Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3295
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 6:42 pm: | |
What that 9/11 photo on the WTC was false?
It was true classic and helped us though those terrible days.
jjaba, hope it never happens again. |
Cklwbig8
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Post Number: 47
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 64.228.195.117
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:03 pm: | |
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Jjaba
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Post Number: 3299
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Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:25 pm: | |
Latreen's? A real pisser!
jjaba. |
Mikeydbn
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Username: Mikeydbn
Post Number: 302
Registered: 04-2004
Posted From: 35.11.191.18
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:26 pm: | |
Can't leave out the Telway with the lovely display...
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Mikeydbn
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Post Number: 303
Registered: 04-2004
Posted From: 35.11.191.18
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:27 pm: | |
Otto's Crispy Corn is my favorite
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Mikeydbn
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Post Number: 304
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Posted From: 35.11.191.18
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:27 pm: | |
Has this been torn off?
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Mikeydbn
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Post Number: 305
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Posted From: 35.11.191.18
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:28 pm: | |
A Sign of the Times!
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Cklwbig8
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Post Number: 48
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Posted From: 64.228.202.184
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Cklwbig8
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Posted From: 64.228.202.184
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623kraw
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Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 839
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 3:54 am: | |
CKLW. those last 5 are my pics (from DetroitPix) but hey, they rock!
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56packman
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Post Number: 99
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 129.9.163.233
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 10:07 am: | |
Here's one I took in 1980 of the sign (well, half of it-anyway) of the "Executive house" apartments on W.Adams, the former Briggs Hotel, now the Park apts. I took this from a moving car, just as an afterthought. We had just removed the 20's Chandeliers from the closed off lobby of the (demolished) Oriental theatre, which is still there, on the first floor of the Briggs. Those fixtures are now hanging in the Redford theatre 
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Cklwbig8
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Post Number: 51
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 64.228.198.49
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 10:28 am: | |
Kraw those are yours? I give credit to you then. thanks yes those pics are awesome. |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5379
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 209.216.150.127
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:16 am: | |
A few of the Michigan Avenue one are mine too... |
Cklwbig8
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Username: Cklwbig8
Post Number: 52
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 69.156.93.149
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 10:52 pm: | |
love this one
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Gumby
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Username: Gumby
Post Number: 937
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 68.60.143.186
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 11:49 am: | |
Straying from Detroit but I have always loved this sign up here in Flint.
Better than a Piggly Wiggly? |
Gumby
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Post Number: 938
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Posted From: 68.60.143.186
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 11:51 am: | |
Also up here near Flint.
Dancing sandwiches sound creepy. |
Hornwrecker
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Post Number: 939
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 63.41.40.6
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 1:23 pm: | |
wsu/vmc |
Jjaba
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Post Number: 3352
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 2:15 pm: | |
Than dancing sandwiches are named Lindyhop, Foxtrot, and Jitterbug. They just slide right down.
jjaba, thanks for the pics. |
220hendrie1910
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Username: 220hendrie1910
Post Number: 5
Registered: 02-2006
Posted From: 20.137.2.50
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 3:31 pm: | |
It does seem pruriently appropriate that a bar named B-J's would share space with one named Cock-Tail's. Ickk! :-) |
Pikturewerk
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Username: Pikturewerk
Post Number: 11
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 71.65.10.42
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 4:30 pm: | |
     
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Nedab3
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Username: Nedab3
Post Number: 78
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 216.96.11.195
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 7:56 pm: | |
Remember the sign on the Hamburger Joint (yes that was the name) Wayburn and E. Warren. Seating capicity 6000 6 at a time. It made the national Sundy paper newsy section. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3354
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 192.220.139.6
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 7:59 pm: | |
Dancing in the front, liquor in the rear.
jjaba. |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1220
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.14.122.57
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 10:46 pm: | |
For the Exit 69 Big Beaver Rd. fans:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/O PINION03/603210401/1283 |
Jimaz
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Post Number: 501
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 10:57 pm: | |
Confirms my theory that fate eventually validates humour. Thanks, Kathleen. |
Arab_guyumich
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Post Number: 768
Registered: 12-2004
Posted From: 69.14.179.212
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 11:51 pm: | |
Some pics I took...
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Jimaz
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Post Number: 503
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Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:01 am: | |
Ooooh, I like that, Arab_guyumich. They have character. More please! |
Jimaz
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Post Number: 504
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Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:09 am: | |
Especially the third of four. What's the story there? |
Arab_guyumich
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Post Number: 769
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Posted From: 69.14.179.212
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 12:44 am: | |
Thanks Jimaz! =) I came across "Green's BBQ" a few days ago while taking the long route home from Wayne State...it's located on W. Warren but I can't remember the cross-street...I believe that it was close to Livernois.
Here's a different angle:
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Jjaba
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Post Number: 3417
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 2:26 am: | |
jjaba's favorite sign is the "No Foreign Cars" in parking lot of Teamsters on Trumbull, just North of Tiger Stadium. Sorry, no picture handy.
jjaba. |
Dougw
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Username: Dougw
Post Number: 1043
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 68.248.42.84
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:01 pm: | |
This brand-new sign is not bad at all...
(It's not open yet... That's Sala Thai next door that's open.) |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5426
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 64.228.67.130
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 9:13 pm: | |
Here's one of my personal favorites:
Note the strategic location of the Baskin-Robbins next to Weight Watchers... 
(Message edited by aiw on March 26, 2006) |
623kraw
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Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 856
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 3:37 am: | |
Click here for that 911 spoof.
Here's the sequel. |
623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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Posted From: 68.41.224.200
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623kraw
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623kraw
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623kraw
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Island
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Posted From: 207.91.212.254
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:03 am: | |
hi 623kraw, do you remember the location of the "Strohs Ice Cream" building (painted on brick wall)? Photo posted 3/11. Thanx |
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