  Sg9018 Member Username: Sg9018 Post Number: 220 Registered: 10-2006 |
I saw this Youtube video on a other forum. These videos are from 1937 Detroit. Presented by Chevrolet. The safety patrol was a group of boys that help pedestrians cross Detroit roads. The video was very interesting. It great to see Detroit is one of its heydays. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =k87ngcACTRs | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 342 Registered: 04-2008 |
Old school, too---no ugly orange belts. | ||
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2008 |
Where was/is the pedestrian underpass they showed? Maybe E. Grand Blvd. and Jefferson? | ||
Maof2 Member Username: Maof2 Post Number: 291 Registered: 06-2008 |
That was just posted here a few days ago(sorry, i've looked, but can't find it) and they mentioned what school it was and where. | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 707 Registered: 02-2007 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/150966.html?1218423533 | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 641 Registered: 06-2007 |
Hey Sg9018, what forum was that? | ||
Sg9018 Member Username: Sg9018 Post Number: 221 Registered: 10-2006 |
Kid_dynamite Urban Ohio. Urban Ohio is like Detroit Yes but, it is for the Urban cities of Ohio. http://www.urbanohio.com/ I love to go to local forum type websites like Detroit Yes and see locals talk and share topics in happening thier cities. I am so sorry guys. I did not know that the link was posted before. But the video is very interesting and I think it is great to share things about the past. (Message edited by sg9018 on August 12, 2008) | ||
Jita1 Member Username: Jita1 Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2008 |
I remember watching a movie similar to this when I became a safety in elementary school. I still have scars on my wrist from a boy scratching me as I dragged his unruly behind to the office. I was serious about mine in the 5th grade..LOL (Message edited by jita1 on August 13, 2008) | ||
Jita1 Member Username: Jita1 Post Number: 28 Registered: 08-2008 |
Did anybody notice the horn at 4:26? Sounds like a ship coming in. Pretty cool. | ||
Jita1 Member Username: Jita1 Post Number: 29 Registered: 08-2008 |
You know, I vaguely remember an underpass like that somewhere around the Davison expressway back in the 70's. Does that ring a bell with anyone? | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 263 Registered: 10-2007 |
That underpass looks like Highland Park @ Cortland School, on Second. | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 181 Registered: 09-2005 |
There was another underpass at Second & Pilgrim Going to Ford School on the North side of Highland Park too. Swede1934, I can't remember the name of the candy store on Cortland? | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4947 Registered: 07-2008 |
It was fun trying to figure out where they were.  There are understreet passages on John R. by St. Benedicts in Highland Park too. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 2052 Registered: 04-2005 |
There was one in Hamtramack, on Holbrook and Brombach, that was closed up in 1973. One of the top stories in The Citizen back then. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1982 Registered: 02-2006 |
What's with the way the kid talks? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1064 Registered: 10-2003 |
In my day only boys were allowed to join the Safety Patrol. The girl's counterpart was called the Service Squad. Their job was to stand duty in front of the school, keep the kids in line and take down names. | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 446 Registered: 04-2008 |
....and also clap erasers outside. Those clouds of chalk dust definitely had something to do with global warming. | ||
Leannam1989 Member Username: Leannam1989 Post Number: 39 Registered: 06-2008 |
Is it just me, or does the kid in the video sound like he's from Brooklyn or Jersey? I've never been to Detroit, I just didn't think Detroiters sound like northeasterners. Though he does sound a little bit like my sister's friend from Minnesota. "Women are very careless that way." I wonder if they'd get away with that line today. :p I also wonder how many of the underpasses are still in use and upkept. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1986 Registered: 02-2006 |
Unless the Detroit accent was quite a bit different 70 years ago, that kid isn't from Detroit, I say. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3521 Registered: 01-2005 |
The cop is an actor. Uniform does not come close to matching the DPD uniform of 1937. Badges are phonies, too. | ||
Deegee Member Username: Deegee Post Number: 44 Registered: 11-2004 |
How do they close off an underpass? | ||
Deegee Member Username: Deegee Post Number: 45 Registered: 11-2004 |
How do they close off an underpass? | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1991 Registered: 02-2006 |
I'm assuming they would either put a gate in the stairwell, or concrete over them. | ||
Lpg Member Username: Lpg Post Number: 56 Registered: 02-2008 |
As a member of the Safety Patrol at Hoover Elementary in Lincoln Park in the late 50's, we got to also be on the Service Squad, but everything was boys only. One of the other jobs was to haul the individual wax milk cartons in the wooden crates to the kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms and pass them out. Long ago memories. | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4959 Registered: 07-2008 |
The closed underpasses were sealed with corrugated sheet metal at ground level. Here is one by St. Benedict's School in Highland Park at John R.  | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 186 Registered: 09-2005 |
Lowell, can't view the image?? At grade school in Highland Park, we had the pint glass bottles to haul upstairs in the wooden crates or sometimes in the metal wire crates. What a treat. I think we also got either one or two graham crackers with our bottle of milk. Around the mid 50's it got changed to the cartons and then in a year or two they put in "Vendo" milk machines. I thing a carton of milk was 5 cents. | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 187 Registered: 09-2005 |
Lowell ,Got it now. Good ol St. Bens. | ||
Sg9018 Member Username: Sg9018 Post Number: 227 Registered: 10-2006 |
The underpass looks cool. But they should remove the underpass though. The underpass looks similar to a NYC subway exit/entrance. It too bad it is not a subway entrance. But I think I should end at that note. Subways and underpasses are two different stories IMO. | ||
Elimarr Member Username: Elimarr Post Number: 72 Registered: 09-2007 |
My school had safety patrol boys. They had the white cloth belts and two phrases: "Hold It" (arms out) and "Let's Go" (arms down.) Like Ed Golick mentioned, the girls counterpart was the Service Squad, and had to keep an eye on the stairs and school entrances. They had armbands to wear, and also had a few commanding phrases, such as, "No Running" and "Single File!" These coveted positions only went to the 6th graders at my elementary school. | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4960 Registered: 07-2008 |
I too was an old-school white-belt safety patrol kid too in my little town of Perry. Our reward? At the end of the year we got a day off to go to Walled Lake amusement park. woo hoo. | ||
Soomka1 Member Username: Soomka1 Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2007 |
At Parkman elementary in the 60's we had "Duty Girls" and they were a terror. Like Ed_golick said, they would report you for taking cuts in line before the school doors opened. That would get you a trip to the principal Mr. Smith. The real trouble though was getting caught talking while we were lined up in the hall by our classroom door either before school or after lunch. They would pull you out of line and drag you to Mrs. Kozar's room for an ass kicking. | ||
Lpg Member Username: Lpg Post Number: 57 Registered: 02-2008 |
Lowell, Walled Lake amusement park ??..All we got was a trip to the toboggan hill at Gregory Park which was 2 blocks from our school in the dead of winter. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1070 Registered: 10-2003 |
At the end of the year we got to go to Edgewater Park. It was there that I put a nickel in a machine to see a "Genuine Parisian Fan Dance," which turned out to be a paper fan with two little doll legs swinging beneath it. I'll bet that machine got a lot of nickels from a lot of horny 13 year old boys. | ||
Dtctygrl Member Username: Dtctygrl Post Number: 52 Registered: 03-2007 |
I was a member of the service squad and my brother was on the safety patrol at Beard Elementary. Wish I still had my arm band. | ||
Mama_jackson Member Username: Mama_jackson Post Number: 411 Registered: 06-2006 |
I was a "safety patrol" girl and had a white shoulder belt in the 60's. At the end of the year, we got a Safety Patrol Certificate at the end of the year recognition program. I would take a trip to an amusement park any day, instead of a piece of paper. | ||
Townonenorth Member Username: Townonenorth Post Number: 102 Registered: 10-2007 |
Safety Patrol at our school got to go to a Tiger's game. Always in left field, with a literal horde of other SP from other schools. | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 191 Registered: 09-2005 |
If jman was on this thread he would tell you ,at Barber elementary school in Highland Park in the 40's and 50's we had the safety patrol sponsored by AAA of Michigan. There was a captain and lieutenants with badges that you wore on the the white safety patrol belt that went across your chest. When it was taken off ,you could roll it up a certain way ,such that the badge and buckle were all showing above the neatly wrapped belt. We also had what was called the pick-up quad. This group was given a 5 gallon pail and a round broomstick like stick ,about 4 ft. long with a sharpened nail on the end of it. You went around and picked up debris and paper off of the school grounds and lawn. | ||
Gertrude Member Username: Gertrude Post Number: 106 Registered: 05-2005 |
When I was in public school in the early '80s, boys and girls could safeties and service squad members. I was both as well as the safety captain in the 5th grade. Mom sent me to parochial school for 7th and 8th grade but only boys could be safeties. I remember how much that pissed me off. One of my service squad duties was to watch the younger kids eat lunch in their classrooms since the schools I attended did not have a cafeteria. Now that my own children are elementary school aged, I can't imagine that happening. |
