  Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3987 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have always liked this park, such a pleasant urban respite surrounded by houses and schools, shopping but with some regrettable break off on the south end by the I-75. Any stories? I was there Sat. for the Detroit Artist Market's Artists v. Writers ball game. I just watched - I was whipped from playing handball on Belle Isle in the AM -- but enjoyed a stroll-about in the park. The grassy vistas of the park with big shade trees are its trademark. Western HS can be seen in the distant right.  Charming boarded up Women's restroom. A park manager said they are trying hard to get it restored. It can be seen in the distant center above.  The ball game with Amelia Earhart Middle School in the background.  No he's not reaching for the donation coffee cans. Tiger legend / badboy Denny McLain threw out the first pitch and also pitched his recent biography.  A slight thread jack but is Earhart School a classic example of windowless "ghetto renaissance" architecture, or not? My, my, what grim place to trudge off to school.  | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1182 Registered: 07-2004 |
Guess who won? The artists... | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 111 Registered: 11-2006 |
And right across the street from the park is my favorite Mexican restaurant, Armando's! Gotta love the shrine to the Aurelio Lopez and the '84 Tigers in the rear entrance lobby. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9545 Registered: 10-2003 |
That is a school? It looks like a prison or at the very least a military bunker. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 3768 Registered: 10-2003 |
Blends in well with the 100 year old architecture of the surrounding neighborhood doesn't it? Gets my vote for one of Detroit's ugliest buildings. I always wanted to track down the architect(s) and ask "What in the world were you thinking, and who in the world gave you a license to practice architecture?" | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 583 Registered: 03-2006 |
i dont think it's that bad actually | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 609 Registered: 03-2006 |
That park used to be so nice. The Denny pic was a little disturbing. I remember in the early 90's going to a bar on Telegraph were he was playing the organ and Leon Spinks, the boxer, was the bartender. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1492 Registered: 03-2006 |
I saw an old post card of Clark Park on ebay that had a picture of a lake, anyone know of said lake? | ||
Lmr Member Username: Lmr Post Number: 70 Registered: 03-2007 |
Back in the 1920's and 1930's a lot of older men would gather in this park for cribbage games. My grandfather used to join them at times on his days off from work or after work. | ||
Texorama Member Username: Texorama Post Number: 29 Registered: 12-2006 |
Chitaku, I've also seen postcards of Prospect Park in Ypsilanti showing a lake, and I can't see where there could possibly have been a lake. I'm wondering whether lakes on cards were fanciful boosterism rather than being real, or what. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1835 Registered: 04-2005 |
  LOC/DPC The Libaray of Congress has the original photos of the Detroit Publishing Co, printers of all of those turn of the century postcards: the last century. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2006 |
It was a fun game! My son played 3rd base for the winners. Denny could not wait to get out of there! | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 9579 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: It still is. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6314 Registered: 10-2003 |
Denny McLain at the organ? | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3456 Registered: 10-2004 |
Those former spring wells in/near Clark Park formed the reason for naming that township Springwells nearly 200 years ago--roughly Trumbull to Greenfield. The construction of nearby I-75 tapped into some of them. | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 32 Registered: 06-2007 |
I remember when the Cuban Refugees came to the area. When they had a major criminal problem with one of their own it was usually taken care by their own. The outcome being a body found hanging by the neck from one of the trademark shade trees. |
