Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1269 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 9:41 pm: | |
The miniature loaves of bread from the Silver Cup rocket ship at the State Fair Grounds. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3192 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 9:47 pm: | |
Stared at the twin flags of Canada and the US on the tile walls while stalled in the Tunnel. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 892 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 9:49 pm: | |
You remember the RAF bomber flying from England in 1962 that exploded over the DetroitRiver near GrossePointePark. any pics or info on this? |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 7047 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:36 pm: | |
You have no idea what a new car costs because ads only list the A-plan lease rate. |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 215 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:40 pm: | |
You have said Whatupdoe in a sentence at any point in your life. |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 216 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:42 pm: | |
I also got these from facebook a while ago: You call McNichols 6 Mile You pronounce Lahser as "Lasher" You add an "s" on Livernois You own a pair of gators in a variety of colors Your gators match your suit (pink, purple, green, etc.) You`ve had to wait forever for the DOT bus Your car payment is higher than your rent You outfit cost more than your car payment You get your nails and hair done every week just to go to the mall You can do any of the 3,000 hustles You take ballroom hustle lessons You airbrush your toenails You put nail tips and acrylic on your toenails You`re familiar with the term "Dress to Impress" You can find a cabaret on any given Saturday of the year You listen to Mason in the morning on 102.7 FM You know the words to "Hello Detroit" by Sammy Davis Jr. You are mad about the Joe Louis Statue (the fist) in the middle of Jefferson Your neighborhood church is across the street or next door to a liquor store AND a Chinese food restaurant You don`t know the difference between winter white and summer white You've been to a club at 1 am and paid $20 to party for one hour You can buy an outfit, activate your cell phone, and buy lunch at the corner liquor store You get your hair "did" You have Mardi Gras beads from Fishbone`s hanging from your rear view mirror Youo've stopped at a shrimp shack after 2 am (because it tastes the best at this time) You think that Lou's Deli (the Mc Nichols location) has the best corned beef sandwiches! You shop at Cest La Vie You've had to drive a half a mile to make a left turn (The Michigan Left) You drink Faygo pop You've knocked all the hub caps off your car - and your alignment's totally out of whack You go to the Auto Show to find men / women You own a red leather outfit You shop at Mr. Alan`s to get the 2 for $50 deal You shop at City Slicker shoes and the Broadway You know the words to the City Slicker Shoes and the Broadway radio commercials You've been to the Festival in Hart Plaza You own a Navigator or an Expedition and you live with your mother The Cass Corridor is your jogging route. Wednesday is Metro Times day. You have a taste for coney dogs. You can dodge potholes without dropping your cell phone. You can name the CEOs of all the Big 3. You can't get to sleep without the sound of sirens. You hate the city, but you'll kick the ass of anyone who disses it. You love Vernor's and Better Made Chips You refer to the city as "the D." You swim at Belle Isle beach. You bitch about the need for mass transit but know deep down you'd never use it. You know the given names of all the expressways. People get scared when you say you're from here. You have two cars: One for daily use, and one hooptie for extreme occasions. A six-street intersection with a Michigan turn seems logical. You think Devil's Night is celebrated everywhere. If it's less than 10 blocks away, you drive anyway. You are connected to Eminem by 3 or fewer people. You know Eminem and Kid Rock are not actually from Detroit, but Warren (a suburb) and a small farm town. You have ridden the People Mover. When you pull up to a red light, you roll up your windows. |
Karl Member Username: Karl
Post Number: 4761 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:55 pm: | |
You remember Louis the Hatter, where the man parks your car. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3195 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:55 pm: | |
LOL mayor... @ the whatupdoe Yep, this came in the email. Nothing is new on the web it seems, but it was new to me. Continuing on... - You ate a meal in the rotating restaurant at the top of the Renaissance Center. |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 2671 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:03 pm: | |
I ate a meal at the rotating Duly's Coney once, funny how it only rotated after 2am on weekends. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3196 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:03 pm: | |
"You hate the city, but you'll kick the ass of anyone who disses it.". Bears ^^ repeating. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1694 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:06 pm: | |
Chitaku in the HOF threads, there are some posted photos of the RAF Vulcan bomber that crashed, and info on it. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/6790/36342.html?11603140 16 |
Ron Member Username: Ron
Post Number: 310 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:23 pm: | |
Walking to the corner store and getting into fights with the kids on the next block. The street lights, and my grandma calling me home. The candy store. Definitely the flags in the tunnel. The traffic on the drive home from the fireworks. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1271 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 12:37 am: | |
A small correction to the Jac LeGoff sentence. Jac worked at WJBK for 21 years until 11PM, Aug 8, 1974 which was his last on-air broadcast. He then went to WXYZ in January of 1975 and stayed there until about 1985. He never worked at WWJ WDIV WBKD or CKLW TV |
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger
Post Number: 97 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 2:11 am: | |
Devil's Night: you mean this is not a national holiday? How could I get to adulthood and be oblivious to this. Come on people . . . folks outside of Detroit know all about Devil's Night. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 598 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 3:52 am: | |
quote:I think jjaba and the Rock might score 100% on this test.
They probably said no to this item:
quote:Or always wished you could be one of the Hudson's Teen Panel girls whose pictures hung on the wall in the Juniors Department
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Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 599 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 4:01 am: | |
quote:Devil's Night: you mean this is not a national holiday? How could I get to adulthood and be oblivious to this. Come on people . . . folks outside of Detroit know all about Devil's Night.
Some do but they call it something different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M ischief_Night |
Apbest Member Username: Apbest
Post Number: 249 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 4:05 am: | |
Mayor, that list could probably be considered a little offensive ...and Kid Rock is from Romulous I believe |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 866 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:06 am: | |
Kid Rock is from Romeo |
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger
Post Number: 98 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:59 am: | |
Thanks Pam: wikipedia = "Mischief Night is the night before Halloween." |
Aarne_frobom Member Username: Aarne_frobom
Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:21 am: | |
I scored 28 on the list posted by Lowell, despite growing up south of Mt. Clemens. Does this mean I'm from Detroit, or that I'm an incipient geezer? I give myself half a point for seeing the Walled Lake Casino once, and an extra one for remembering the funky oil-rig wells behind the mineral-bath hotels in Mt. Clemens that were the source of the smell. Plus my mother always washed the Twin Pines milk bottles before putting them back in the milk chute. And not only do I remember the National Bank of Detroit, but the Money Museum inside. I never heard about the RAF bomber crash, but who else remembers when the steamer Montrose tipped over under the Ambassador Bridge? But where was the Jefferson Beach amusement park? |
Wkl Member Username: Wkl
Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:39 am: | |
My dad was one of those guys with the big antennas to pick up channel 6. He had to adjusted every fall. I can still remember him up on the ladder and mom calling out "no, a little more, too much, no back". House was alway crowded on Sunday afternoon. |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 112 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:45 am: | |
... You owned a Troop or 8-Ball jacket. ... You had a crown air freshener in your rear window. |
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 1162 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:47 am: | |
And how many of these things can you still do today? |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6951 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:15 am: | |
No longer being totally amazed when you see six fully-assembled and painted coaches of the back 2/3rds of a gaggle of Cadillacs pass you in one of those Fisher Body transport trucks on the way from Fleetwood to Clark Street for their mechanical underpinnings. (the Fleetwood tour helped take some of the mystery out of those partial vehicles) The horrible smell getting stuck behind one of those slag trucks after driving dad to the plant in the morning...what was IN that smoke?! |
Gargoyle Member Username: Gargoyle
Post Number: 35 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:11 am: | |
You took the Stroh Brewery tour and brought glasses home as souvenirs. You watched the hellish glow in the eastern sky when they opened the blast furnaces at Great Lakes Steel. You remember how beautiful the Fort Street bridge looked at night with all those fancy street lights glowing, even though it was next to a refinery. You ate Italian at Cassadei's and steak at Joey's Stables. You rode the wooden escalator at Crowley's. There was a Kern's Store on the Kern block. You got dressed up to go to Hudson's. You went to the Music Hall to see something in "Cinerama." |
Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248
Post Number: 21 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:32 am: | |
The Errol Flynn was a dance and your cousin was a Sconi Oni. You can't go to Belle Isle without hearing The Electrifying Mojo play the Parliament Funkadelics. (Thanks for the memories!) (Message edited by yvette248 on October 31, 2006) |
Karenk Member Username: Karenk
Post Number: 16 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 12:05 pm: | |
Aarne_frobom - Jefferson Beach amusement park was like 9 1/2 and Jefferson. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4440 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 1:10 pm: | |
jjaba did get 100% on the Lowell and Mayor list. Great lists. jjaba's list among others. Ann Arbor is not a fucking suburb. Grosse Pointes are. And you know all them Pointes. E. Detroit still lives. Detroit Creamery delivered milk in horse carts to your outside milk chute, cream rising to the top. Oleo came in white with a yellow packet. Wilson Dairy is at James Cousins and W. Outer Drive. I took my girlfriend to Briggs Stadium for the Tigers. We sat at the top of Sec. 24. I kissed her on the strikes. She kissed me on the balls. Admission was 50 cents. Johnson's Creamery on W. Davison. Wrigley's Super Markets. Big Bear Super Markets. CF Smith's Stores. Wrigley's Self Serve Drug Stores. Davison Ditch with bus stops. Tower Lanes Bowling Alley. Sanders Ice Cream Stores hot fudge puffs. 15 Jewish Delis on Dexter Blvd. 15 shuls on Dexter and Linwood. Darby's on W. Seven Mile. Central High School all Jewish. Northern High School all Jewish. Lou's on Six Mile with surly waitresses. JCC on Woodward and Clairmont. Trumbull and Oakman Street cars. Manchester yards in HP. Red brick streets. Harry Suffrins, Hughes and Hatcher. Two stores. Univ. of "D" before any mergers. Going down to Wayne on Dexter bus. Hungarian restaurants and funny accents in Del Ray. Northlawn bus. Grand River feeder buses. Olymipa Stadium on a Grand River feeder bus. Big sparks at Forest-Warren crossing Crosstown line. Mr. "Guttenberg" in Printshop at Tappan Intermediate. Yes, Lahser is Lasher. jjaba. |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 1:31 pm: | |
I don't remember Wonderland having the round cages for animals but I do remember an old big parrot in a round cage in Montgomery Ward. He (she?) was there for years. My father worked as security guard there during the 70's. You forgot the Clark gas stations that sold the cheap(er) gas. Yes, Sinclair had the green dinosaur. The big Uniroyal Tire. Ollie Fretter and Highland Appliance stores' commercials. Farrell's ice cream palors. Daly's drive-in restaurants. Faygo remembers. |
Aarne_frobom Member Username: Aarne_frobom
Post Number: 38 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 2:24 pm: | |
Small correction to the small correction above recalling Jac LeGoff. I'm convinced he started at CKLW-TV, as I distinctly recall the "Cecil B. Rabbit" puppet character on the Jingles TV show making fun of the French spelling of his name. Evidently that wasn't politically incorrect yet in Ontario in 1959. Legoff's news show started at 6:00 PM, right after the kiddie shows. You're REALLY from Detroit's past if you've still got all three "Jingles" toy hand puppets, including Herkimer Dragon. I never went to Boofland, but I knew kids who did (and were disappointed). |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 3:05 pm: | |
TV shows: Channel 9 (Canadian)- The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, Polka Dot Door Channel 50- All those reruns of Three Stooges, Batman, Superman, etc There was a magician who went by the name of Whodini. Not sure of the spelling but he was big in Detroit area. Hundreds of kids turned out one time when he appeared at Wonderland Mall back in early 70's. |
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 161 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 3:20 pm: | |
Sir Graves Ghastly. I once went to see him at a roller rink in Roseville. He had a stuffed animal he called "Frogger". At the roller rink, Frogger was stuffed with Cheez Whiz and Sir Graves blew him up with a fire cracker. In the front of the roller rink was a "head shop". How times change. |
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 110 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 4:04 pm: | |
quote:Sir Graves Ghastly. I once went to see him at a roller rink in Roseville. He had a stuffed animal he called "Frogger". At the roller rink, Frogger was stuffed with Cheez Whiz and Sir Graves blew him up with a fire cracker. In the front of the roller rink was a "head shop". How times change.
Nope--that was "The Ghoul" (and "Froggy") who was based out of the Cleveland area; see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =6xBuYDq0le8 Sir Graves was less manic than that! |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 897 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 5:40 pm: | |
Why did The Ghoul mention Parma so often? That's one joke I never understood. |
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 162 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:19 pm: | |
Wow, my mistake it was the Ghoul because I do remember the Frog. Like I said, there was a head shop and it was the '70s, hence the memory lapse. |
Traxus Member Username: Traxus
Post Number: 14 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:28 pm: | |
You know what it means to be a bleacher creature. |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 373 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:18 pm: | |
and that fireworks traffic seems to have gotten worser, with or without freeways. It's the only time now that you'll find livelyhood in the neighborhoods surrounding downtowns as people use the streets as shortcuts. |
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 111 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:50 pm: | |
quote:Why did The Ghoul mention Parma so often? That's one joke I never understood.
As I understand it, Parma is/was a predominantly Polish suburb of Cleveland; hence, Parma jokes would be like Hamtramck jokes here |
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher
Post Number: 754 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:03 pm: | |
I'm not that old and I can remember most of what is on the original list. I especially loved the Bookmobile. That woman knew every book I read (without looking at a card) and had just the book she knew I'd love, all saved under the counter for me. That was 30+ years ago...I say Viva La Bookmobile!! |
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 165 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:15 pm: | |
I didn't grow up in Detroit, but wasn't there also a "swim mobile?" I remember seeing reports on the news about the pools going to the neighborhoods and thought it was cool. |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 218 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:18 pm: | |
...You might get killed or kill over a pair or Yays. (Cartier sunglasses) |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 900 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:23 pm: | |
Zephyrprocess, thanks. I guess that makes sense, considering the times and the audience. I never could understand Polish jokes anyway. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 901 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:29 pm: | |
I remember swim mobiles -- portable swimming pools. Didn't they appear after the riots? I think the theory was that people were less likely to be angry if they weren't suffering from the heat. Sounds like a bandaid, in retrospect. |
Quickdrawmcgraw Member Username: Quickdrawmcgraw
Post Number: 73 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 11:06 am: | |
I remember Detroit when: 1. Going to the Westside Drive-In to see b-movies and mama packed food from home (cold chicken) to bring with us. 2. Being tormented because the kids wanted the food we saw on TV. 3. Playing on the broken playground in front of the drive-in movie screen. 4. Going to Jack-in-the-box because Rodney Allen Rippie told me to. 5. Going to White Castles to get some cheeseburgers and their delicious Chocolate Malts. 6. Hating the old I-94/Southfield Fwy interchange (I was riding with elderly folks). 7. Customizing my hamburgers from Burger Chef. Also they made the best kids meals. 8. Getting firecrackers and sparklers from the liquor store on Linwood near Central High. 9. Calling the Fire Department on neighbors you didn't stand. 10. Wondering why adults wouldn't swim in the Detroit River @ the Belle Isle beach but let their kids wade in the water...hmmm. 11. Going to the Towne Club Store for pop (Pop-a-go-go was my favorite). 12. Basement parties, rent parties, $.25 parties. 13. Eating that nasty Velvet Peanut Butter. 14. Going to Focus Hope for can and packaged goods. 15. Getting teased by family members because we had no-name (the labels that were either white background with black letters or with the red diagonal double-lines) groceries from Farmer Jacks. 16. Eating at the diners @ Hudson's, Woolworth's or Kresge's. Those women can throw down on some entree's such as meatloaf, chicken or fried fish. 17. Getting $.35 Faygo when it was good and strong to make your nose burn when you belch. They are kinda weak now. 18. Standing in the cold waiting for the bus during the winter and the streetlights would stay on until I got a block away from school. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4442 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 1:07 pm: | |
Kresges ham sandwches. Kresges gold fish. 100,000 men working at The Rouge. Waiting forever for the trains to clear on Dequindre in the Milw. Junction district. Thinking the subway under the Fisher Bldg. was so urbane, so fucking cool. 4 Detroit tv stations, 2,4,7,56. WWJ modern tv studios downtown. New parking ramp at Cobo Hall. Chinatown on Michigan Ave. in skid row. Renaming National and Cherry Sts. to Cochrane and Kaline. Invention of Kaline's Corner inside Briggs Stadium. Learning to set type in father's printng/envelope plant, age 7. Milk in glass bottles. Coffee to go in glass bottles with cardboard caps. Greek Joints for lunch anywhere in town. jjaba, list #2. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4443 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 1:10 pm: | |
Jewish kids carrying contra bass violins to lessons on Linwood and Dexter Blvd. Baby buggies pushed through the snow on Westside. Irish taverns on street corners. jjaba. |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 131 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 2:36 pm: | |
ooohh! Me bad! I once had one of the mini Silvercup loaves and put slices in the toaster! - You played four-squares in the street, - You remember the giant clown slide that used to be a Lasky, - You toured Vernor's and sampled Vernor's with white or chocolate milk, - You were given WARM Vernor's for an upset stomach, - You know the magic words were "Twin Pines", - You traveled the globe via TV with George Pierrot, - You've had REAL coneys, - You've sampled "corner" barbeques, - You remember real Mom & Pop corner stores where the owners lived upstairs, - You bought holiday flowers from a stand in front of a gas station, - The Christmas season didn't start until Santa and Christmas Carol (with the patent leather hair) arrived at J.L. Hudson's, - Anticipating deliveries from the J.L. Hudson's trucks, - YOu know that Canada is south, - Thanksgiving Day ended with a carol-singing ride to see the lights in downtown, finishing with cheese and/or carmel corn from Otto's Crispy Corn, - You bought warm, fresh roasted cashews at Sears (or was it Penney's?) - Your house had a milk chute door and it wasn't locked. - You listened to Ernie Harwell on summer nights. A more contemporary one: - You exit the freeway from the left lane using your brake lights instead of a turn signal. |
D2dyeah Member Username: D2dyeah
Post Number: 31 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 3:24 pm: | |
The halloween costumes they hung in row after row of the windows of kresges, Woolworths and Newberrys on Michigan Ave, and how our mom would slow down so we could look and remember which one we would go back for. |
Quickdrawmcgraw Member Username: Quickdrawmcgraw
Post Number: 75 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 3:43 pm: | |
Quickie Donuts were the best!!! Better than Krispy Kreme. Rode the Dexter Bus Line with Grandma and brought some home. |
Ptero Member Username: Ptero
Post Number: 52 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 4:35 pm: | |
Agreed on ALL of the above. - stood in line at the one and only Honey Baked Ham on Fenkell between LivernoiS and Linwood. - ran up Wyoming to catch the Imperial Express to Cass Tech. Milt would wait if he saw ya... and you could catch Milt's run back home in the afternoon, too (he worked a split shift, you could ride with him twice a day). - Loitered at the Sam's Drugs toy store. a separate storefront all by itself. - saw the Saturday twin feature at the Great Lakes Theatre on Grand River. - went to the Gem to see (ahem!) art movies... - knew you were really going way up North when you passed the big cemetary with the flag near Crooks along I75. - mmmmmmmm..... Red Devil - rode your bicycle across the Ambassador Bridge for Ice Cream |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4444 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 5:03 pm: | |
Shopped at Sears Oakman. Shopped at Montgomery Wards or Crowleys, Grand River-Greenfield. Dearborn before Arabs, when they really hated. Warendale run by Poles. Herman Keiffer Hosp. when TB patients were there. Hermann Gardens with poor white people only. Brightmoor occupied by Hillbillies. Donald Poindexter trying to keep the NW side white forever. The Big Four cop cars, mostly Buicks. Woodward Ave. PCC street cars. A Mayan Fisher Theater before they fukked it up. Dave Dombrowski at Western Mich. Univ. Mike Illich walking to Cooley HS. Lily Tomlin at Cass Tech. HS. John deLorean when he was respected. Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams. When the Levin Brothers had hair. Leon and Lefkovsky Delicatessen. Broadway Market. Fire Call Boxes. (They still have them in Rochester, NY) Willow Run for passenger airplanes. Grand River progressive traffic lights. jjaba says great lists to PTERO and MTM. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 3022 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 6:21 pm: | |
I remember beverages.... besides Ovaltine, there were Fizzies... a beverage you made with Alka-Selzer like tablets. They were more fun to make than to drink. Then there was Jiffy-Pop stove top Popcorn. And I remember Celery flavored Jello... (my mother had a box in her cupboard for 30 years but never made it). Don't forget Spoolies (hair curling product) and Kooties (tap someone on the shoulder and say "you've got the Kooties, I quit") Games... Mousetrap and Crazy Clock... And before Lego there were those red American Bricks that came in a tall tube... And don't forget Kenner Girder & Panel building sets... |
Erikd Member Username: Erikd
Post Number: 753 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:05 am: | |
quote:You know you're from Detroit if you remember when the bleacher seats at Briggs Stadium were only $2.00 to watch the Detroit Lions play. And when they won the National Football Championship.
If you remember the last time the Lions won a championship, you are probably a Detroiter living in a nursing home... LOL |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3214 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:19 am: | |
-you remember when the Rivera Court was used as the indoor smoking parlor for the DIA. -you went to Orchestra Hall when it was a decaying 24 hour movie house and got kicked out for falling asleep. -you hate the Yankees. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 596 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:34 am: | |
My Aunt Carol was a Christmas Carol once. Also, you remember the Rotunda, before it was just a road. |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 46 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 8:40 am: | |
Delivered the Detroit Free Press newspaper back when they mistakenly had the Old English "V" instead of the "D" in the word "Detroit" so it was "Vetroit Free Press" for a number of years before someone realized the mistake. Me and my mother had appointments with an audiologist in the Book Building in downtown Detroit back in the 60's. We would catch the bus in Westland and back. There was a fascinating candy/newspaper stand in the lobby of that building but we were too low on money to get anything. Those Lifesavors seemed big in those days. Eventually we went to an audiologist that was closer, in Wonderland Mall during the 70's. (Message edited by catman_dude on November 02, 2006) |
Ptero Member Username: Ptero
Post Number: 54 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:47 am: | |
- you went to the eye doctor and got glasses in the bldg on the southwest corner of Woodward and Grand Circus. oh my, what was that bldg? - you sold the emergency press on the corner of Oakman and Grand River when the papers were on strike in the mid 60's. and lost money doing it. - re: the Ambassador Bridge. They let you ride on the sidewalks before they had holes big enough to swallow a bicycle. |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1414 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 3:39 pm: | |
--when you could buy a chameleon at the Shrine Circus at the State Fair Grounds for only 50 cents. --when you could catch the latest news at the TeleNews Theatre and then go downstairs in the evening and watch Harry Heilmann broadcast the Tiger away games using a ticker tape and recreated the play. --when you could buy a bike at T.B Rayls. --when the Sanders store at E. Grand Blvd and E. Jefferson prepared diced ham sandwiches for you. --When the Wilson's Dairy gave you a choice of malted milk or milk shake in a chrome container and you always kept the refill right in front of you. --When Harry Truman led the annual Labor Day Rally. Later on, Ike came to town. --When the North and South American docked at the foot of Woodward. --When the Tuller Hotel bar did not ask for i.d. --when Cunningham's Drug Stores had the best photo developing department in the whole city. --when Grinnell Brothers lobby held festive Christmas concerts featuring Detroit school choirs. |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 324 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 3:47 pm: | |
- when you remember when you were a kid, and part of you still is and thats why we drink Faygo! - you took the bus downtown to ride the Boblo Boat, or drove there back when gas was cheap in Canada. |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 47 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 3:58 pm: | |
Getting Canadian money in your change even if you are not in Canada. I fond of Canadian beaver nickels. |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 132 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 4:26 pm: | |
Another PURE Detroit one: - You had a zone code of 12 instead of a ZIP code of 48212 and - You had an exchange like TWinbrook or TRininty instead of a number like 892 or 873... and NOBODY thought about area codes but the ONLY one was 313. I have a DELIVERED Hudson's hatbox of my Mom's from years ago with Zone 12. Imagine that Hudson's used to send a delivery truck with a HAT! Before Hudson's went away, we bought an original painting (not starving artist) from Hudson's and had a heck of time getting them to deliver it because they were afraid of the potential liability. (Message edited by mtm on November 02, 2006) |
Mrfrench Member Username: Mrfrench
Post Number: 57 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 4:34 pm: | |
you don't have a job |
Mrfrench Member Username: Mrfrench
Post Number: 58 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 4:36 pm: | |
not even at the party store |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1277 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 7:54 pm: | |
Hudson's would deliver a spool of thread to your home! |
Detroitdecor27 Member Username: Detroitdecor27
Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 8:26 pm: | |
Yeah and you have to be over 50 to remember all of the things on Lowell's list!!!lol ;) I'm only in my 20's but I do remember about 1/2 of the items so not too bad right!?!?! |
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup
Post Number: 222 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:17 pm: | |
You own a shirt that says: " Come back to Detroit, we missed you the first time." And it has a picture of a gun on it- |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 133 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 5:43 am: | |
... or "Detroit, It's a Nice Place" with, in tiny print below "You A$$hole". ... or "Detroit, Where the Weak are Killed and Eaten" ... or, personal favorite, "I'm So Bad I Vacation in Detroit". (The last one actually let me meet the surviving Temptations on a flight going to CA after David Ruffin's funeral. Melvin saw it and stopped me so Otis could see it too. Gave me the opportunity to thank them for all the hope and inspiration to kids growing up in Detroit in the 60's.) |
Mrfrench Member Username: Mrfrench
Post Number: 59 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 7:15 am: | |
you know that canada is to the south |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 48 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 7:57 am: | |
You know you're from Detroit if: -you think the song, "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, what ya gonna do...", is referring to the 1989 and 1990 World Champion Detroit Pistons. |
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield
Post Number: 30 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 8:26 am: | |
You know you are from Detroit when you can recall any, many, most or a few of all these "posts". Regardless where you reside now. What your memories include. In whatever decade. Where you have been. What you are doing now. Being a part of Detroit..then and "paying" it forward now...cannot but help what we leave for generations to come. Thank you Detroit Yes. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1280 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 10:21 am: | |
You actually know what the "A Plan" is. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4449 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 12:57 pm: | |
The Rock provides us a great downtown list. jjaba remembers the recreated Tiger games from tickertape, Ronald Reagan style. Thanks Rock. jjaba had a Davison phone number in Detroit 04, Grand River and Joy Rd. PO. Detroit 04 was broken up and we became Detroit zone 38 in zip codespeak with a new PO on Lyndon Avenue. The Minor Key Club on Dexter. All the jazz greats in 1959-1961. Miles, Dizzy, Coltrane, Ramsey Lewis, Maynard Ferguson, etc. Black and Tan, and it was safe to park there and walk out in wintertime at 2am to go home. Cass Tech. HS with 5,000 students. Imagine that. Electric feeder buses at Olympia, poles down, waiting for the throngs to leave a 1950s Red Wing Championship game. You learned early to hate Montreal. Selling Sat. evening Bulldog Detroit Times behind Sears Oakman as customers went to parking lot, yelling, "EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT." jjaba, Westsider. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 608 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 2:16 pm: | |
Jjaba, ever visit Lane Tech in Chicago? Very similar to Cass Tech of old. |
Ed_golick
Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 472 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 2:55 pm: | |
Quote: A small correction to the Jac LeGoff sentence. Jac worked at WJBK for 21 years until 11PM, Aug 8, 1974 which was his last on-air broadcast. He then went to WXYZ in January of 1975 and stayed there until about 1985. He never worked at WWJ WDIV WBKD or CKLW TV Psip, Jac Legoff certainly did work at WDIV and CKLW. LeGoff started his TV career at WJBK in 1953. When the station fired him in 1959 for editorializing about a Payola scandal which involved WJBK-AM, LeGoff was hired by CKLW where he anchored the news until 1962. He worked at WDIV from 1985 until his retirement in 1988. (Message edited by Ed Golick on November 03, 2006) |
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield
Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 - 3:11 pm: | |
Anyone on a bicycle, "young" enough to drive or able to walk to the City Airport @ the De LeSalle area on Conners/Outer Drive get a glimpse of JFK in his motorcade (exact year escapes me). What if what transpired in '63...never happened? |
Krapug Member Username: Krapug
Post Number: 52 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 8:24 am: | |
If you remember when: Downtown had 3 department stores, Hudson's, Crowley's, and Kerns. The wooden escalators at Crowley's that we all liked to play on, and their Mezzanine Restuarant, that had better food than Hudson's Riverview Room, and the competition over who had the best Santa Land Sam's Cut Rate Bond Clothing, and "2 trouser suits" Detroit was called the "Paris of The Mid-West" Ken |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 436 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 10:34 am: | |
That Kern's clock on Woodward (built by Compuware) just reminds you of how far Detroit has fallen, not so much of how much its risen |
Ptero Member Username: Ptero
Post Number: 55 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 1:19 pm: | |
The longest escalator in the world. At Olympia - tacked on the rear of the building. Up before the event and down after. |
Hit24sqft Member Username: Hit24sqft
Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 11:10 am: | |
If you know that the "production line" consists of Abel, Lindsay and Howe. If you heard Ernie Harwell say "...high fly ball to center field...." over 1000 times ! |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4453 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 12:58 pm: | |
Hit24, welcome to The Forum. Yes, we know the Production Line, and produce they did. Read the stats. Yes jjaba has been to Lane Tech. in Chicago. Huge school, loaded up with Depression-era WPA art on the walls. It teaches like Cass Tech. but the setting is no where near the Loop. That Lane campus is huge, with large lawns. jjaba also remembers when crossing to Canada, his parents "fudged" on their birthplaces. Instead of Ukraine, they said Chicago. jjaba's brother and hisself, would squeal laughing. We were born in Detroit, bona fide yanks. During the Cold War, if you said Ukraine, it would be six hrs. with papers in the police station on the top of a fucking bridge. And then they'd discover mother sittng on English Bone China and all of us wearing Irish sweaters we were sneaking into the USA. jjaba, tales from the Westside. |
Hit24sqft Member Username: Hit24sqft
Post Number: 5 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 2:28 pm: | |
Speaking of Gordie Howe and the "Production Line" - I remember well when Howe's ice arena opened up in St Clair Shores and our team was there for the grand opening. Gordie and Colleen Howe were there and he shook hands with all of us and skated for a while. Some of my team-mates referred to him as "Gordie" but I addressed him as "Mr Howe" - I was quite intimidated - he was, afterall, bigger than life ! I also remember when my mother had a dead car battery at Sears and a kind gentleman and his wife helped her out. That couple was Mr & Mrs Terry Sawchuck. |
Karenk Member Username: Karenk
Post Number: 17 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:14 pm: | |
Mtm, Thank you for mentioning Vernor's and chocolate milk!! Anytime I bring that up everyone thinks I'm crazy. I still drink it. I thought it was just something we made up in the early 1950s. Ummm, sure could go for some now. Thanks. |
Jimg Member Username: Jimg
Post Number: 733 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:58 pm: | |
...going to the Twin Pines Dairy, Milky the Clown, Demery's, Robert Hall, riding downtown on a streetcar (always tried to get a single seat), and Santa on the twelfth floor at Hudson's and Johnny Ginger... |
Jcdfde5 Member Username: Jcdfde5
Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 6:02 pm: | |
Mack and Bewick |
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren
Post Number: 128 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 8:00 am: | |
Out here, on the Left Coast, when I tell people I'm from Detroit, they tell me that's a good place to be from. Just an observation. Not to diss Detroit. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4457 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 1:05 pm: | |
Just tell 'em you graduated Cass Tech. That shuts up anybody. Cass Tech has that kinda reputation. jjaba, Westsider. |
Trainman Member Username: Trainman
Post Number: 244 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 8:54 pm: | |
Drive a big car and support your local transit tax because you know it's a charity for the poor and the handicapped and gives you a warm feeling in your heart. |
Erobtheone Member Username: Erobtheone
Post Number: 41 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 8:20 pm: | |
I still say What Up Doe? out here in chicago, and people know instantly I have Detroit roots. Watching Benny Hill on channel 9. Watching the Scene or New Dance Show. A card carrying member of the Midnight Funk Association. |
Ed_golick
Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 481 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:31 pm: | |
Focusonthed, Your Aunt was a Christmas Carol? Please email me. |
Mudflap Member Username: Mudflap
Post Number: 182 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | |
You buy your groceries at the gas station and your clothes at a liquor store... |
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 699 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 4:01 pm: | |
....if your 2 most important phone numbers growing up were WOodard 3-8925 or TI 6-56-66 (pronounced that way). Dave Prince, Bud Davies, WKMH, Jack The Bell-Boy, Van Patrick and Mel Ott, Bill Muncy, Fearless Freddie Alter, Wild Bill Cantrell, Jack Schafer's Such Crust, The Dossin Brothers (Walter, Roy and Russell) and their Miss Pepsi, Nick Pietrosante, Charlie Maxwell...... |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3287 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 5:16 pm: | |
- You've worked on an assembly line some time in your work career. Surprised no one mentioned that most Detroit event...[Dearborn Engine Plant 66-68 and the reason I came to the D] |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 517 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 6:09 pm: | |
No one mentionaed these.... -You know how to use a snow blower and shovel and likely used the same one for over 10 year since you brought it. -Have difficulty finding shopping in city limits. -Own more than one vehicle(at the same time). -Pay an arm and leg for civil bills (water, house notes, taxes, etc.). -Locally owned and run Places you've been to when you were younger dont exist anymore and likely anywhere else. -Shopped downtown, 7&Gratiot, Grand River and Greenfield when younger. -Never heard of Hechts or Nordstroms. -There's not a Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or Target within city limits. -A Church, Liquor Store, and a hair place on every other corner. |
Ed_golick
Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 482 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 6:19 pm: | |
You know who the MFIC was. |
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 414 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 7:22 pm: | |
Lowell is the MFIC of this site. Hey... Wasn't there a joint, somewhere on the east side, called (and I'm guessing at the spelling) Tony Koinis, which was similar to a Dairy Queen motif, a place where you could buy popcorn and other junky stuff? And, Jjaba, am I to understand that you had the pleasure of seeing Miles Davis perform here in the late fifties/early sixties? If so, I would LOVE it if you would ramble on, as long as you want, about your memories of that... |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 520 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 7:27 pm: | |
I know the dairy place on MAck and Iroquois appears to have been an old-fashion Dairy Queen at one point. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 7:55 pm: | |
You remember… - Soda fountains in almost every drug store and having a cherry Coke served in a paper cone on a metal base. - Shopping for penny candies at Eurich's Furniture and General Store on Michigan Ave. in Dearborn. - Riding the Tilt-a-whirl at the little amusement park at the intersection of W. Outer Dr. and W. Warren Ave. - Discussing how many times the roller coaster at Edgewater Amusement Park had been condemned. - The guy in the booth controlling the traffic lights on Michigan Ave. in front of Ford World Headquarters. - Going to the Muzzleloaders Festival in Greenfield Village. - Ice skating and tobogganing in Rouge Park. - Nike missile bases on Belle Isle and in Rouge Park. - Jumping off of 3rd deck at Brennan Pools. - Going into the novelty shop next to the Empress Burlesk Theater on Woodward Ave. - Walking back and forth in front of one of downtown’s corner newsstands trying to get a glimpse of the covers of the porn magazines they sold. - Paying 25 cents to see the three-legged man at the state fair’s sideshow. - Watching an old movie on TV hosted by Rita Bell or Bill Kennedy. - Hanging out at the “horseshoe” and getting stuck in weekend traffic jams along Hines Dr (Message edited by Ramcharger on November 11, 2006) |
286marlborough Member Username: 286marlborough
Post Number: 8 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 6:00 pm: | |
Re: "You remember the RAF bomber flying from England in 1962 that exploded over the Detroit River near Grosse Pointe Park. Any pics or info on this? - Chitaku" Chitaku, I posted some pics of the crash on the Detroit "Paradise Lost" forum last year. Follow this link and scroll down until you see smoke ... https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/6790/36342.html?11603140 16 |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1295 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 6:38 pm: | |
you watched the Auction Movie on WGPR TV62 with ?? Merrell you saw the Glider movie on WGPR. |
Ed_golick
Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 486 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 6:54 pm: | |
Did somebody say FRED MERLE???
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Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1296 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 7:20 pm: | |
LOL Thats great Ed. |
Taj920 Member Username: Taj920
Post Number: 150 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
Ravine: Tony Koinis (sp?) was at 9 Mile and Jefferson. Still operates as an ice cream store but under a different name. |
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 416 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 6:19 am: | |
Taj: Thank you |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 7110 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 7:58 am: | |
if... you're told 30 times a day, "Have a blessed day." |
Crash_nyc Member Username: Crash_nyc
Post Number: 673 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:15 am: | |
If you've ever been advised by cops to treat red lights like stop signs. I was sitting at at red light late one night in the Cass Corridor (maybe 3:AM), when a DPD cruiser pulled up next to me, and advised that I "should not spend too much time sitting at red lights around here". Apparently, there had been a recent rash of carjackings. |
Karl Member Username: Karl
Post Number: 4920 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:22 am: | |
Wasn't sure if this was a Detroit phenomenon (and I'm still not) but found this: "Morgus, on the other hand, represented the dangerous, exciting side of scientific exploration. Not one to rely solely on the safe and proven principles established by his redecessors, Morgus ventured to and beyond the boundaries of conventional science by providing the answers to unasked questions, finding solutions for problems not yet identified. Though his revolutionary research often resulted in ridicule and rejection from his myopic "peers," Morgus has managed to retain his dignity, his inquisitiveness, and his integrity. It is this spirit which has attracted legions of devoted followers and students from all around the world. I am but one... The Doctor Checks In: The Meta-Morgu-sis of this Site The original concept for this modest outpost was to present a typical "fan tribute" page, an homage to this remarkable man of science. A tremendous impediment to the development of the site was the fact that I had little to offer beyond my fading memories of the Morgus experiments I had witnessed on Detroit television in 1964-'65. After posting some of the items to the site, a remarkable thing happened - I received an email message (which can be viewed from the main page) from Dr. Morgus, himself! It seems that the site has attracted his attention; no surprise, as he recently recounted his invention of the internet in a WWL radio program interview. (As has been the case with most of his most important discoveries, he has been denied due recognition for this achievement.) Since that initial email contact, I have had occasion to consult with Dr. Morgus via telephone and conventional mail. He is gratified and excited to have this forum to reach and recruit new friends of science on a world-wide basis. Because of his total immersion in his research, he has not had the opportunity to disburse the results of his experimentation to the internet - until now. The Dr. and I jointly and proudly announce that Momus Alexander Morgus - Morgus the Magnificent - remains a vital, active and important figure in the world of science. And he is here, working to resolve your conundra, reporting the results through me, your humble scribe. It's still my ship, but Morgus has taken the helm and it's anybody's guess where we'll all wind up! Hang on - it ought to be a wild ride! More here: http://www.morgus.com/mrgstnfo .html |
Ed_golick
Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 487 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 9:39 am: | |
Morgus did the weather forecast at WJBK and hosted horror movies on WXYZ. |
Hit24sqft Member Username: Hit24sqft
Post Number: 19 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 9:48 am: | |
if you bought a Chevy from Joe Gerard at Dexter Chevrolet |
Hudsonut1 Member Username: Hudsonut1
Post Number: 8 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 3:01 pm: | |
I was born and raised in Wayne but I do remember a LOT of those things. At Christmas time Mom and I would ride the bus from Wayne and hit Hudsons, I would head for the toy department and spend hours watching the toy train layouts!_Late 40's early 50's. Also Tom's Trains was a regular stop for me. |
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 163 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:15 pm: | |
You shagged cars in the ruts during winter. |
Ron_saad Member Username: Ron_saad
Post Number: 59 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:07 am: | |
Left your front door unlocked and your bike and toys on the front yard and would be there in the morning.
(Message approved by admin) |
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1499 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 7:50 am: | |
I miss the circular exit ramp on the southbound Lodge to Livernois..... |
Shirlselects Member Username: Shirlselects
Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 11:29 pm: | |
All these remembrances are great. How about drinking fountains on Trumbull, also horse troughs. Hot summer days when they opened the fire hydrants. Coal chutes in winter and blocks of coal for the fireplace. The junk man going down the ally with his horse drawn wagon. Also the iceman. Getting baked goods at Mills bakery when the trucks came back from their daily runs. Going to the Greenwood show on Hamilton, the Strand I think on Trumbull, the Globe I'm not sure. somewhere in the area. McKinley grade school on Stanley and Hamilton, Tilden on Kirby I think, Hutchins Intermediate. Walking to school during the bus strike. Ice skating on the flooded field of Northwestern High. I'll think of more later. Just found this forum or I would have jumped in earlier. Shirley |
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad
Post Number: 128 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 10:46 pm: | |
When you're talking to someone from Chicago or St. Louis, and refer to soda as "pop", and have to explain what it is! |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 110 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
New Dance Show??? What about watching Swingin'Time with Robin Seymour..... The elephants at Belle Isle.... getting 15 cent hamburgers at Top Hat... the Norwest Drive-In on 8 mile... Keener 13... Tune-Up card from WJLB... EJ Korvettes... Himelhochs... your mom buying fresh fish from the fish-man yelling it the street early in the morning... penny candy... |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 25 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 6:54 am: | |
Channel 9 Bud Davies "Dance Party". The "Gas Is Best" sign over by the Detroit City Airport. If your dad took you practice driving around the big curve at the airport. Shopping at Sears on Van Dyke and Gratiot and Federals on 7 Mile and Gratiot. Cruising through A&W's Drive-inn on Conner near Gratiot and Woods Drive-Inn a block or so away where the boys from De La Salle hung out. Paying a quarter for admission to The Eastown Theater to see double feature movies...with cartoons as well! Your elementary and junior high schools having "newspaper" and "clothing" drives. If you collected a certain amount of poundage of either you got to skip afternoon classes one day and go to the auditorium and watch several "Three Stooges" features. Aero-Mechanics High School near the Detroit City Airport. Shopping at Robert Hall on Van Dyke near Harper. That's where men could get a suit with two pairs of pants! Wrestling Saturday afternoons on Channel 9 - Dick the Bruiser was one of the wrestlers. Tobogganing on Derby Hill by Outer Drive. Driver's training at Pershing High School. Sunday afternoon drives "way out in the country" to 13 Mile and Van Dyke. Fish & Chips from "The Landing Restaurant" by the Detroit City Airport. (can you tell I was raised on the East Side)? <grin> |
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me
Post Number: 117 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 10:46 pm: | |
Thanks Eriedearie, you jogged the brain. Here are some others. Dunkin' Donuts at McNichols & Woodward while waiting for the bus. Skating at Palmer Park, Belle Isle or the State Fairgrounds Coliseum. Watching pizza makers in the Famous Restaurant on Woodward across from the Fox Theatre. Renting a tandem bike on Belle Isle. Listening to Fred Wolf broadcast from the Wandering Igloo. Ed MacKenzie's Dance party. Listening to Lee Alan on WXYZ radio. Toddle House restaurants. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 82 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 8:12 pm: | |
You're welcome Stinger4me. oooo I forgot about the tandem bikes! Those were so cool. And loved Lee Alan! |
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad
Post Number: 165 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:16 pm: | |
If you know that the Davison was the first American expressway! |
Moxie Member Username: Moxie
Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 4:30 pm: | |
LOOKING FOR SURVIVING QUICKIE DONUT MUGS- noticed that some still remember the great Quickie Donuts!- I am wondering if anyone has seen a quickie donut mug in their travels or in their cupboards!? Grandma used to work there and my bro would love to see one again. |
Omaha Member Username: Omaha
Post Number: 10 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 7:42 pm: | |
• Altes beer, • Goebel had “22 Beer.” Bobby Lane, partied hardy and quarterbacked remarkably also wore #22, coincidence? I think not! • Getting exposed to country music during the height of Motown because the bars close to the Chrysler plant on E. Jefferson didn’t card me. There may be a theme here! • “Which way did he go? Which way did he go? He went for Faygo!” • The Cunningham Drug Stores not only brought you the news on TV but also had a mechanical elephant named Jumbo to advertize their photo service. • Having lunch every day with Soupy Sales, Pookie, White Tooth, and Black Fang plus learning that Ocsob is Bosco spelled backwards. • Ice skating at the public rink downtown by the Bob-Lo boats • Having a Walnut phone number |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 506 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:58 pm: | |
Hey Omaha! I had a WAlnut phone number! Where did you live? |
Omaha Member Username: Omaha
Post Number: 13 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 12:40 am: | |
I grew up watching Soupy Sales on WXYZ-TV in a wonderfully peculiar little place called the Indian Village. My family did its marketing at Tom’s market on Mack; we bought our gas at Dragomer’s Shell on Charlevoix (across from the Hodges Printers); and, once a month, we had a dinner at Dondaro’s Italian restaurant also on Mack but closer to Eastern High. And thanks for reminding me it was WAlnut! |
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1798 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 10:03 pm: | |
...if you still have flaming red-hot lust for Barbara & Ree-Ree from The New Dance Show. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 187 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 1:26 am: | |
thanks to you all for helping me keep my memory sharp, and as my grandpa always said "Altes, good german beer". |
Omaha Member Username: Omaha
Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:59 pm: | |
Listening to Bud Guest (WJR) talking about life on “the sunny side of the street” while being driven to school in the morning. . Listening to Paul Winter (WXYZ) with his Winter Wonderland Show on the radio. Much later his brother was a professor of mine at Wayne State. I first heard Tommy Shannon in Buffalo (“Tommy Shannon Show, KB radio”) before he came to Windsor’s CKLW (800 on the AM dial) and reminded everyone who would listen that “The sun never sets on the Shannon Empire.” I vaguely remember that he ended the show every night with a Frank Sinatra song, but I can’t remember which one. Bill Kennedy on Channel 9 going on and on about all he knew about making movies when he hosted “Million Dollar Movies” including how he knew B-movie actor Johnny Mack Brown. He may have been showing the movies but he was the “star” of the show. As an east sider, I also spent a lot of time in the early 60’s eating at Dunkenburger’s on Eight Mile. Boy oh boy did I pack away those 15 cent hamburgers, usually after driving out to 9 mile and Jefferson to jump on the trampolines that were often my entertainment in that period. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 199 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 2:28 am: | |
even as a kid i,d wonder 'when is that Bill guy gonna show the movie?'. my dad would say "he,s a movie star, shut up". i saw Towne Club pop at the dollar store, another Detroit thing. |
Brenda Member Username: Brenda
Post Number: 42 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 10:24 am: | |
You know if you are from Detroit's east side if you can remember the most famous and awesome teacher who is still with us. I keep in contact with him and spoke with him today where he lives in Traverse City. He would be so happy to hear from his former students and boy scouts! Our children will never know a teacher like Mr. Weitschat: To Lyle and other Guyton people: I spoke with Mr. Weitschat today and he would love to get letters from his former students. Here is the address again: Mr. Willard (Bill) Weitschat Christwood Hills Dementia Care 3735 Yorkshire Dr Traverse City MI 49686-7202 Phone: 231-932-2051 I do hope in your busy schedules you can take a moment and write to this dear man. |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 20 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 6:10 pm: | |
If you remember Sgt. Sacto on Channel 50, who looked a bit like Mr. Spock of Star Trek, with the altered eyebrows, and his double-pump hubba-hubba arm/hand chop across his chest. Bought dress shirts from United Shirts stores. Got chunks of clear ice from the Twin Pines milkman to cool off with in the summer. Had a vegetable truck drive down your street selling them with a loudspeaker. Had a wire mesh container in your alley to burn trash in. Watched deeply canopied city blocks filled with trees disappear in the 70s, from the Dutch Elm blight. |
Ladia Member Username: Ladia
Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 10:16 am: | |
what's the difference between summer white and winter white? I thought Lahser,was Lasher,lol |
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 1253 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 11:20 pm: | |
Hey Ladia, Winter white is creamier in color than summer white; which is a crisper, more bright, white. Truer white, if you will. |
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm
Post Number: 1647 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 6:10 pm: | |
Omaha, it was Lee Alan who ended every show with Sinatra's 'Can't Get Started with You.' |
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d
Post Number: 214 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 3:59 pm: | |
Yeah, You know your from Detroit, When somebody asks You something, You start off the sentence with Yeah.... |
Skylark Member Username: Skylark
Post Number: 47 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 10:12 pm: | |
You remember being sick at home on a school day and watching Rita Bell's Prize Movie on channel 7. Seven dollars was added to the jackpot with every incorrect answer to naming the mystery tune. |
Blksoul_x Member Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 226 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 10:04 pm: | |
You know you're from Detroit if.... You have been to or knew about 3 popular illegal race strips.(back in the Day) Grand River and McGraw (Old Olympia Stadium) Livernois and McGraw (White Castle) French Rd (in back of the City Airport) You know you're from Detroit if.... You think convenient stores are called 'Liquor Lotto's' You think(or thought) the Blue License Plates signified that you live in the D!. blksoul_atcha! |
Sknutson Member Username: Sknutson
Post Number: 1146 Registered: 03-2004
| Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 5:09 pm: | |
You are from Detroit if you call a convenience store a "convenient" store. |
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d
Post Number: 262 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 2:40 pm: | |
Yeah, You know you're from Detroit, When You start rating the White Castles You go to. |
Jsavic1108 Member Username: Jsavic1108
Post Number: 7 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 10:15 pm: | |
You are from Detroit if you call a convenience store a "Party Store" You used to own cazelle Sungasses or a Max Julian Fur lined coat. I remember the BK's, The Sconi Oni's, The Erroll Flynn's, YBI, Pony Down, SCB. |
Lnfant Member Username: Lnfant
Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 8:59 pm: | |
You know you're from Detroit if when referring to Ford Motor Company, you simply say "Fordz". You know you're from Detroit if all the decay surrounding you is somehow inspirational for your own artwork. |
Jsavic1108 Member Username: Jsavic1108
Post Number: 8 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 6:44 pm: | |
CKLW. The Motor City. Do I need to say anymore? |
Redford79 Member Username: Redford79
Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 10:22 am: | |
Great to read these posts and reliving the "old" days. I grew up as a West sider and everybody knows that East and West hated each other. I was a KEnwood back in the day and used to walk to Topps or Cunningham's for entertainment. Rode my bike down on the Jeffries when they were building it as a young teen (went out one night to check out a car crash when two cars were racing down there well before it's opening...one hit a huge pile of dirt and the guys flew through the front window. Cruising the 24 (Telegraph) and getting into fights with the Suburban punks when they tried to see how "bad" the Detroit guys were. Buying beer at certain "party" stores in the mid '70s while wearing a '79 Redford letter jacket...proving that there was no way that I was legal. Too many things to write, but certainly remember most of what was written in prior posts. |
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd
Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 1:39 am: | |
If you remember Bozo's "Magic Drawing Board" create pictures out of kids' initials. You tried meeting girls (or guys) on "pipeline", the pause between the recorded "Your call cannot be completed as dialed..." message. You remember the trees planted in the 4' square boxes sitting next to the road along East Jefferson. |
1kielsondrive Member Username: 1kielsondrive
Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 10:29 pm: | |
Psip, the miniature loaves. What a great memory. As a kid I absolutely LOVED 'em. Thanks, 1KD |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 362 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 10:10 pm: | |
You know that Rock and Rye and Frosh are pop flavors... Alinosi's ice cream... The smallest kid in the family crawling into the house through the milk chute to unlock the door for Mama who forgot the key... |
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1100 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 11:59 am: | |
Keep up with the good and (abundant) bad news coming out of the motor. And you find DYes is a source. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 8240 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
At one time in the history of your home, your driveway originally consisted of two narrow concrete strips, exactly the wheel base width of a Model-T, with grass growing in the middle. |
Lnfant Member Username: Lnfant
Post Number: 107 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 6:24 pm: | |
oh yes, the milk chute stunt
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Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 2771 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 10:24 am: | |
Yeah - the milk chute entrance! We would send my brother in! He was the one that could wiggle through anything! Yeah - the milk chute entrance! |
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd
Post Number: 36 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 8:21 pm: | |
How about the clothes chute? From the upper floors to the basement ending in a big box near the washer. That's something sorely lacking in modern homes. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 8368 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 10:28 pm: | |
If you happen to know a little French, because you would accidentally watch the Canadian version of Sesame Street on channel 9 when you were young, you might be from Detroit. |
Frankg Member Username: Frankg
Post Number: 534 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 7:09 pm: | |
White kids are taught by their grandparents not to make eye contact with black people. |
Jcole Member Username: Jcole
Post Number: 3758 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 8:52 am: | |
Real nice, Frank |
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 792 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 1:03 am: | |
Someone says: "Jesus Saves", your comeback is..."and Gordie Howe scores on the rebound"! Now, that's how you can tell when someone is from Detroit. |
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 820 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 1:05 am: | |
Someone says: "Jesus Saves", your comeback is..."and Gordie Howe scores on the rebound"! Now, that's how you can tell when someone is from Detroit |
Mschievous Member Username: Mschievous
Post Number: 290 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 8:04 pm: | |
- Red Barn - the underpass/tunnel on the Blvd that took you to Belle Isle - Daddy blowing the horn while in the Blvd underpass/tunnel, even though the sign said, "Do Not Blow Horn" - Swingin' Time w/Robin somebody????? |
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 408 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 11:40 pm: | |
yep unemployed |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3791 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 4:18 pm: | |
Mschievous - it was Swingin' Time with Robin Seymour - and "Bobbin' with the Robin" http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/b igeight.html |
Mschievous Member Username: Mschievous
Post Number: 291 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 9:27 pm: | |
Thanks Erie! This thread brought back so many memories, thanks to all! |
Denbytar64 Member Username: Denbytar64
Post Number: 61 Registered: 03-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 5:13 pm: | |
If you kinda had to move out of your childhood home on the eastside neighborhood in the mid seventies/eighties to the burbs or out of State...Thank You Detroit. |
Lonelycloud Member Username: Lonelycloud
Post Number: 9 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 8:19 am: | |
You called your friends out to play by standing on their porch singing their name ! Jane-y ! Chris-tine ! Rob-ert ! Sometimes mom or dad would come to the front door to tell you that they couldn't play, and you'd say "thanks, MRS. Smith." ALWAYS used Mr. and Mrs. with friends' parents. When I suggest that with my kids' friends they look at me like I'm from another planet. |
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 1226 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, December 07, 2008 - 4:29 pm: | |
You are mos-def from Detroit, if - when organizing a high school reunion - you find more old friends at the Michigan Department of Corrections website....than at classmates.com 'Ya Know! |