  Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 41 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.40.119.216 |
We all know about the Ferriswheel turned into the UNiRoyal Tire on I94 but how about remembering the gone but not forgotten landmarks from the last 50 years or so? Anyone recall that giant stove or the Red Barns? | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2971 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.81.50.7 |
The Seven Sisters springs to mind immediately. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6690 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
The four-story whipped cream containers that used to be at Michigan Avenue and Telegraph, on the southeast corner. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 340 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 68.60.139.212 |
The Giant Stove was re-erected at the State Fair a number of years ago. While it no longer sits right on Woodward, you can see it from Woodward toward the south end of the fairgrounds. | ||
Jimg Member Username: Jimg Post Number: 709 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
Man, I LOVED to look at those Whipped Cream cans...wasn't there a giant loaf of bread in the metro area? Or am I just hungry? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 425 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.238.170.51 |
There used to be a giant loaf of Shaffer bread next to the giant stove. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1129 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
And, here they are!    Livedog2 | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1130 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
7 Sisters  Livedog2 | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6698 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22 |
Great stuff, 'dog! Can I get a witness on those cans, too?! Jimg, go ahead and take an early lunch. Heh. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 583 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 129.9.163.233 |
The Goodyear car production sign, the Yellow pages sign on the Oakman bldg. (wish they would restore that!), the big 'ol cows head that used to be on the Wilson dairy building, the car hanging from Wetmore's collision (used to be a Packard dealer) | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 37 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 12.15.7.70 |
What was the Yellow pages sign? I guess I never heard of that. Where is wetmore collison? | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1284 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.18 |
the yellow pages sign is on the building on the NE corner of the davison and the lodge, wetmore's is on the SB side of woodward in ferndale. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3273 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 136.181.195.17 |
I'll second the Wilson Dairy sign at the Ford & Jefferies interchange, aka "the cow go 'moo'" interchange. I'll mention the old General Tire sign along the Chrysler right about where the freeway curves before Holbrook. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 39 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 12.15.7.70 |
Ok I do know of Wetmore then. I thought that might have been the one you guys were talking about. I didn't know the name of the place. Do you have a pic of the yellow pages sign? What about the cow head on Mack? Ironic that there are two cows one on each side of the city. | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1258 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 198.111.56.128 |
The Red Baron statue that used to be the marquis for the restaurant of the same name. That restaurant is now Kavan's at 12 & Hayes. "The Red Baron" is now a decoration at Jawah's miniature golf at 13/14 & Gratiot....the tallest statue as you drive by. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 40 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 12.15.7.70 |
Where exactly was the cow at the ford and jefferies? | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1131 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
I don't know if this qualifies in this category but here goes. The attached photo was taken by me, your own true, Livedog2 in Oct. of 1978. The location is the north side of 9 Mile Rd. between Leland and Paxton Sts. in Ferndale. This car was a Rolls Royce Pick-Up Truck that sat there for close to 5 years. I have never seen a Rolls Royce pick-up truck before or since I saw this one. I know Ferndale's not Detroit but it will be next year when it is annexed or is that anused? And, I know the car is not a permanent structure but it was there for close to five years. Does that qualify? Why am I saying all of this? Here it is!  Livedog2 | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 997 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.69.167 |
Whoah - Livedog2, copyrights on photos arent allowed in here. Just a heads up ! | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1597 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.20.221 |
Does the Marathon refinery still paint that spherical tank next to I-75, like a giant baseball? I remember they did back in 1968 and other times. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1133 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Is that true, Mauser765? Livedog2 | ||
Bibs Member Username: Bibs Post Number: 563 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.18 |
The abandoned Michigan Central Station. The murals on the oil tanks along I-75 south of Detroit. The Frederick Marshall statue in front of the city county building wearing a sports jersey. Tyre Guyton(Spelling?) exhibit on Heidelburg street. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1134 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
How about the "car counter" for cars manufactured? Was that cars that were manufactured in Detroit or in total? Livedog2 | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 584 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 129.9.163.106 |
OK-another one just surfaced--when I was a tyke (early 60's)we used to go visit my Aunt and Uncle in Union lake, which was to hell and gone from 7mile/Evergreen where we lived. At the corner of Orchard Lake and Pontiac Trail there was (is) a restaurant that had a cigar store Indian. That building now seems to be the "cursed restaurant location", ala "Seinfeld". One of the last operators had a (knock 0ff) Cigar Store Indian out front again. On the way out there we used to go up Telegraph, past Northwestern Highway, and I thought (at age 5) that Congregation Sharey Zedek was a rocket launch ramp, like I saw on some cheesy kids show. | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 64 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 129.9.163.106 |
The Marathon Refinery has painted over the baseball and now its a basketball celebrating the Pistons NBA championship a couple years ago. If the Lions ever win the Superbowl, and I mean ever, there going to have a hard time turning that thing into a football. It looks okay. Sorry no picture here. (Message edited by stecks77 on September 14, 2006) | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3274 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 136.181.195.17 |
The Wilson Dairy was on the south side of the Ford, west of the Jefferies ramps. The smokestack is still there with "Wilson" on it. The Goodyear car production counted total US production. | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 1786 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 67.36.21.222 |
Livedog_ now I know what Travis McGees ride looks like. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1179 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70 |
Any one remember the rail road bridge on the west side of the Lodge before Grand Blvd. Some one painted LIONEL on it. It was on there for years. You could see it when you were going north from the Ford interchange. | ||
Karenk Member Username: Karenk Post Number: 10 Registered: 07-2006 Posted From: 204.62.68.22 |
Is there a giant stove at the foot of the Belle Isle Bridge? I also didn't know there was one back at the Fair Grounds. We just had a big discussion about this, but no one knew the answer. Thanks!! | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1180 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70 |
^^^ its the same stove, it was moved in the '70s to the state fair grounds. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 87 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 69.222.98.86 |
How about the cows head on the old dairy bar on Mack just east of Connor. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2794 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.86 |
This thread reminds me of the roadside kitsch that can be found all along the byroads of America. Everything from the Paul Bunyon/Babe the Blue Ox statutes in the northern states, to Lucy the Elephant statue (house) along the Jersey shore. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2800 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.220 |
The smell of the ol' wonderbread factory was an olfactory landmark on an early morning (or laaate night) drive on GR. The view on the I75 bridge over the rouge BEFORE they put up the solid cement dividing walls was a landmark ... the stuff is still there, but unles you are in a bus or big rig you aren't gonna see much anymore. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 616 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 68.42.162.164 |
Amusing: http://www.roadsideamerica.com / | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 66 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 129.9.163.106 |
 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/roger/QueryTips.php3?tip_AttractionName=&tip_Town=Detroit&tip_State=MI&Submit=Find (Message edited by stecks77 on September 14, 2006) | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 266 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 69.136.155.244 |
Has anybody noticed the ~30 foot tall, Michigan War Veterans Memorial, which was erected in 1939 and dedicated by the Governor in front of a huge crowd ? It even had a natural gas "eternal flame" on top of the monument, but alas, it was turned off many years ago. You will find this forgotten and sadly neglected landmark on the northeast corner of Woodward and State Fair Avenues.  (Message edited by Mikeg on September 14, 2006) | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 69 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 129.9.163.106 |
Natural gas is expensive! | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 45 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.40.119.216 |
How about the airplane in the roof of a bar over on Dequindre in Madison Heights? | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6701 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.14.27.114 |
Gistok, Caught an auto sculpture on Route 66 in Oklahoma, next time through I'll take a picture of it. Ten or so cars buried nose in and all sitting at a 30-degree lean...all in a line. I'm sure there were other things there, but those are what stick in my memory. Spirit of Detroit statue...Joe Louis' fist...let's not forget our CBD landmarks. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 617 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 68.42.162.164 |
Gannon, sounds like Cadillac Ranch in Texas. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4332 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.236.229.212 |
Ted Nugent Guitar on Hard Rock Cafe, Detroit, Michigan. Penobscot Bldg. beacon, like Palmalove Bldg. in Chicago. Sign on Ambassador Bridge. Sign on Visitors Clubhouse in Briggs Stadium, "VISITOR'S CLUBHOUSE, NO VISITORS." Detroit's brick streets. Fox Theater sign, now even higher. Bill Veeck's exploding scoreboard at Comiskey Park, as seen from Detroit River. Pistons aircraft landing and taking off at Wayne Major Airport, Romulus. The first section open on the John C. Lodge Expy. along Hamilton Avenue. Buses stopping on the Davison Ditch, 1940s. The Woodward PCC street cars every 2 minutes on Woodward Ave. in the early 50s at Christmas time. The day they opened the John Lodge Expy. under Cobo Hall. Martin Luther King, Jr. marching on Woodward Ave. hand in hand with Walter P. Reuther, 1963. Nelson Mandella filling up Briggs Stadium, shortly after leaving Robben Island Prison after 28 yrs. locked up. July, 1967 Detroit conflagration on 12th Street. jjaba, a few memories for you. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4333 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.236.229.212 |
Lowell Boileau photographing the old Studebaker works on Piquettte St. after fire. Lowell Boileau photographing the Hudson's implosion for us. Lowell Boileau photographing Trombly School while the wrecking ball was pounding it. Lowell Boileau showing jjaba how to photograpgh the Packard plant from the perfect vantage point. jjaba, life's langiappes. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 660 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28 |
Somewhere on another thread Andrew posted a picture of the old "Stop, Stay, Save, Play--Windsor 5 Minutes Away" sigh that was mounted so you could see it from the Detroit waterfront. That's a now dead landmark I'll never forget..... | ||
Erikd Member Username: Erikd Post Number: 723 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.242.214.106 |
I love that cow head on Mack. I think GM should buy it and nail that bad boy to the top of the RenCen. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1080 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 68.35.85.184 |
Gannon, the Cadillac Ranch is just west of Amarillo on the south side of I-40. It's visible from I-40 and you can loop around on the frontage road, park and walk out to the Caddies. I've visited them a few times. As for Detroit, I remember the Hostess Bakery sign at Grand River and the Lodge - but I remember, and miss, the aroma more. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1331 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.130.18.100 |
you all have forgotten the gnome? and the Boblo boats and docks? and Stroh's and Hudson's? | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1210 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.222.11.226 |
Where was the huge four-sided GE neon sign? It was on top of a building and visible from one of the freeways. Maybe Hornwrecker or Livedog has a pic of it. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 141 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 70.229.255.110 |
what about the Harpos Theatre. I like how the sign over Harper is Designed. Dont forget about the Grand Dimitri on Gratiot and I-696. I know, unfortunately National Coney Island brought the building and Dimitri ran out of business. (Message edited by Dtown1 on September 14, 2006) | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6706 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.14.27.114 |
Jiminnm, That is in WAY too open a space...there MUST be either a copy of it off Route 66 or the Caddy Ranch copied what I saw. Same angle...same concept...just not the same surroundings from what I remember. It was between a few houses, or a house and a barn...too much to remember at 55 mph...but there was WAY more clutter around it than that w-i-d-e open Texas space. They were at the same angle. How close is that to Route 66, though?! I'm not even sure it goes through Texas...but I don't have my atlas here and I have no time to search it out on-line. That whole trip was a blur at the end...the drive down into Texas was mind-numbing...I just KNEW I was deep in 'enemy' territory, heh. I've always felt that Texas was a foreign country... GREAT grabs on the Hostess smell and that darn Gnome. Boy, do I miss the happy Gnome, you just KNEW he was drinking more than just Vernor's in that jug. | ||
Designut Member Username: Designut Post Number: 90 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 69.246.47.191 |
"...the Yellow pages sign on the Oakman bldg. (wish they would restore that!)" Me too 'packman. I remember, even as a young kid, imagining how great that must have looked all lit up. Anyone know when that was added to the building/when they turned the lights out on it? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2795 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.149 |
Dtown1, that Harpos vertical sign was originally "HARPER", when it was the Harper Theatre. It is probably one of the oldest extant vertical marquees left in Detroit. But that's likely because it's one of the last surviving neighborhood theatres left in Detroit. Great blue/red Art Deco shape and lettering. And that I696/Gratiot location was originally a "SUSIE Q" Restaurant. It later became a Dimitri's, and now is a National Coney Island. They razed the restaurant portion, but kept the tall metal neo-Deco sign (but with new neon signage). | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 3277 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.133.23 |
Are you sure they razed the restaurant? I don't remember that. National also repaired the sign so it turns again, like when Suzie Q's was there. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 75.7.128.204 |
Interesting note by 56packman...visiting relatives out in Union Lake back about 40 years ago. I grew up there. Anyway, my interesting landmark would be the cow atop Carl's Chophouse. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 238 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
quote: And that I696/Gratiot location was originally a "SUSIE Q" Restaurant. It later became a Dimitri's, and now is a National Coney Island. They razed the restaurant portion, but kept the tall metal neo-Deco sign (but with new neon signage) ______________________________ ___________________ Remember when that was Aurther Treachers before Dimitri's? I miss seeing the red Stroh's Beer sign above I75 at the 375 interchange. Old landmarks...How about downtown Hudson's? Anybody else miss the old Chrysler Jefferson Assembly plant where Jefferson went under the bridge? I always loved taking Jefferson home from Belle Isle because we went under it when I was little. How about the tunnel from Grand Blvd. under Jefferson to get to Belle Isle? When my school would take a field trip in the spring, everybody on the bus would scream and the bus driver would honk the horn when we drove through. This was of coarse in defience of the sign that said "Do not honk horns"! I miss that damn tunnel... | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 239 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
BTW, National Cony gutted the building at 11 and Gratiot but did not tear it down. So the walls you see are still the same as Suzie Q's. | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 642 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
Quote: Jawah's miniature golf at 13/14 & Gratiot....the tallest statue as you drive by. Correction: It's Jawor's putt putt and driving range (frequented by the Red Wings) at 13 1/2 and Gratiot. Chet Jawor used to own it until he passed away a few years ago. It is now owned by Don Jawor, Chet's son, who was once married to my aunt. My other aunt's husband runs the pro shop. That Red Baron has been there for at least 40 years and, I believe, has become quite an icon for the range. The Red Baron was flown away by a tornado quite a few years back (can't remember where it ended up) and the folks who found it instantly knew where it belonged. It was a big to-do putting the Baron back at the range where he belonged. I do have pictures but they have my cousins and me in them and I don't want to post pics without permission but I'll try and see if I can dig a few up from photo albums. | ||
Scofield Member Username: Scofield Post Number: 31 Registered: 07-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
The Oxen in the cage at Telway Hamburgers on Michigan and Martin.  | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4334 Registered: 11-2003 |
Vernor's Gnome at the Foot of Woodward bottling plant or at Woodward and Canfield? jjaba, I'll take a Chocolate Cream Ale with Vanilla ice cream, please. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 4440 Registered: 10-2003 |
56packman hit the one that came to mind, instantly, for me. The Yellow Pages building in Highland Park with the cool sign used to be the landmark I'd look for as a kid knowing that I was entering the the central part of the city coming down the Lodge. I used to use the crown of the Fisher Building at night as an interesting marker, too. | ||
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess Post Number: 20 Registered: 08-2006 |
Jjaba--on which corner of Woodward and Canfield? (obviously not the Whitney--though that thought makes me smile) | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 48 Registered: 03-2006 |
I believe Northeast | ||
Kpalonis Member Username: Kpalonis Post Number: 347 Registered: 10-2003 |
brays on dequindre in hazel park. for cool roadside kitsch, check out Roadside Peek | ||
Crew Member Username: Crew Post Number: 1035 Registered: 02-2004 |
Zephyrprocess, The vernor's sign was right next to the Whitney. You can still see the base of the sign there. The plant was on the land where University Towers is now. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6727 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oh my gosh, K, Bray's. There is one on Van Born at Monroe where that slice of Dearborn Heights hits Taylor (I think, it is all very confusing down there). What a poor concept...I always think they're selling Donkey Burgers. Yuck. Great Red Baron story, Teacher. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 343 Registered: 06-2005 |
 Does anyone else remember Hedges Wigwam restaurant which used to be on Woodward, just south of 10 Mile? The picture is from Google Images. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 58 Registered: 03-2006 |
What about the vu on woodward? South of 6. Yeah that's a landmark alright | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1082 Registered: 02-2005 |
Lilpup, I remember all that, as well as Captain Boblo roaming about downtown drumming up business and I'm not sure what else. I passed the Better Made plant on Gratiot hundreds of times and watched the chips on the conveyor go past the window. Also, the Vernor's plant on Woodward with the rows of bottles flying past the window. Gannon, not sure what you saw in OK. Route 66 and I-40 are pretty much the same road from western OK, thru TX into eastern NM (I think parts of the frontage road in TX were actually part of the Mother Road). You're right, there's not much out there in TX except cows, grass and many abandoned buildings. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 62 Registered: 03-2006 |
I know there have been the picks of the old Boblo Dock at the foot of Woodward looking north, But does anyone have one from jefferson looking south? | ||
Kpalonis Member Username: Kpalonis Post Number: 348 Registered: 10-2003 |
oh! what about the winter's sausage cow? one of these days, i will scale that building so i can sit on it and wave at people driving by on gratiot. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 64 Registered: 03-2006 |
Please send out a message to me so I can come take pictures | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6730 Registered: 12-2003 |
Heretofore to be known as KP, the Sausage Cow. (couldn't resist) w/love, John | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6731 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'll buy the Jagermeister, or whatever fuel will get you on top soonest...heh. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 662 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hedges? The fish got rich off the coins I threw into the pond...... | ||
Ptero Member Username: Ptero Post Number: 40 Registered: 12-2005 |
Psip... The LIONEL on the train bridge was painted by Cassites around 1968. Could be off by a couple years. I LOVE that 'they' didn't just paint it over. ever proud - cass tech '71 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4340 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ok, Cass Tech. as an icon. Ptero, you go girl. Welcome to the Forum, fellow Technician. jjaba, CT Class of '59. (Same yr. as GREASE.) | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 258 Registered: 05-2006 |
Jjaba, Heres to you... I'll raise a glass and drink a toast to the man who tells the most about The D... I love the posts about the past and cast has been set among the last... Jjaba Leary... Jjaba Leary... | ||
Bob_cosgrove Member Username: Bob_cosgrove Post Number: 357 Registered: 03-2005 |
Another landmark gone since the 1970's is the large "Parke Davis" sign with perhaps 12-foot high letters atop the P-D administration building on the foot of Joseph Campau Avenue at the River. Better seen from Windsor, you also could see it from Belle Isle. Comment was made earlier about the Detroit Stove Company's large wooden stove being moved to the State Fair Grounds in the 1970's. It wasn't that early, it lanquished in rotted pieces in the Detroit Historical Museum's Collection Resource Center at Historic Fort Wayne until John Hertel got the funds to restore it and placed it at the Fair Grounds in the late 1990's. Bob Cosgrove | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1012 Registered: 01-2004 |
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Wilderness Member Username: Wilderness Post Number: 15 Registered: 09-2006 |
Does anybody remember seeing the Aquarama at the foot of the West Grand Blvd docks and below the Ambassador Bridge? http://continuouswave.com/boat s/aquarama/ I remember the two or three level loading ramps and the ship from when I was very young. It seems (even today) in my recollection, of awe inspiring size. I have more links if anybody is interested. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 94 Registered: 04-2006 |
What about the giant Kowalski Hot Dog on Holbrook(?) | ||
Tammypio Member Username: Tammypio Post Number: 77 Registered: 04-2005 |
Speaking of hot dogs....the weinies, from Genie's Weinies building in Hamtramck have been removed from the Conant location. I am assuming they may be used at the new store in Warren, but it was very odd (and very sad!) to drive down Conant yesterday and see the restaurant closed and the weinies gone too! | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2992 Registered: 10-2003 |
Also MIA is the Canadian Club neon sign that lit up the river from Hiram Walker. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4347 Registered: 11-2003 |
There's an outdoor neon museum in Las Vegas. All the old signs are scattered around Fremont Street. Perhaps your MIA signs are there. What about it, Ray1936? jjaba. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1607 Registered: 04-2005 |
Here you go, Bob:  WSU/VMC | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1185 Registered: 04-2005 |
Here Tarkus: http://www.joannedomka.com/ima ge_pages/kowalski.htm | ||
Imperfectly Member Username: Imperfectly Post Number: 130 Registered: 06-2004 |
KP as an EDHS grad...we refer to it as the suicidal cow. and still do! | ||
Kpalonis Member Username: Kpalonis Post Number: 349 Registered: 10-2003 |
hahaha! i'm an edhs grad, too. much love, the sausage cow. (mr. 'dorf, i heart you!) | ||
Bob_cosgrove Member Username: Bob_cosgrove Post Number: 359 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hornwrecker for the Parke, Davis & Co. administration building photo from Waynd State. Juding from the automobile in the lower right it's a late 1930's image. But it still looks pretty much the same, except perhaps for few trees and no lighted sign. Bob Cosgorve | ||
Aarne_frobom Member Username: Aarne_frobom Post Number: 31 Registered: 10-2005 |
Many of my favorite sights are mentioned above, but here's a few more: In addition to the late-fifties Chrysler front clip sticking out over Woodward in Ferndale, as late as the late sixties there was either a whole Graham Hollywood or Hupp Skylark mounted on poles at a junkyard somewhere in the northern reaches of Macomb County. This was the car notable for being made from the old Cord sedan dies. But I don't know the location. And I'm puzzled why no one has mentioned the fabulous Gratiot Drive-In. It had been gone for several years before I learned that its peculiar tarred front was originally an artificial waterfall. Its wild shape and moderne fence used to fascinate me as a kid. I remember the "Lionel" GTW overpass, but you can still see a real "Michigan Central" lettered on the north side of the overpass just northeast of the former Studebaker plant site if you bother to look. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 665 Registered: 10-2003 |
Aarne.... ....if you're refering to Whitmores, I remember it as being a Packard learing out over the corner of Drayton and Woodward..... | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 602 Registered: 12-2005 |
Aarne-my theatre-projection pals and I toured the Gratiot before it came down. There was an amazing bit of machinery inside the screen to make the waterfall work. Huge pumps, coupled to 50 hp electric motors the size of a small block chevy. Being an old-school westsider I never saw it working. tres cool. | ||
Broncobillybuttons Member Username: Broncobillybuttons Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2006 |
Anybody remember the large blue steel gas tank which towered over central Detroit, proclaiming "GAS IS BEST" in letters large enough to be read from Toledo, only they faced the other way? For all I know it's still there, but this was 1959. Think of the anagrams you can get out of "GAS IS BEST"...maybe it's a plot by Freemasons or the Knights of Columbus, a secret message left for future generations by Henry Ford, or a warning to Ontario. All I know is that the Powers that Were tore down the City Hall, Soupy Sales went off to Hollywood, and then the Rotunda burned; no wonder all hell subsequently broke loose. Screw up a city's culture and take away its jobs and see what happens, gas or no gas. But the people of Detroit are blessed by God, and they know that; it's a beautiful city full of beautiful people of all races and from all places and nobody and nothing can keep Detroit down. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 433 Registered: 10-2003 |
Bronchobillybuttons, Are you talking about the long gone tank at City Airport? BTW...How's Skinny Dugan doing these days??? | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 673 Registered: 10-2003 |
A Benzoil gas pump..... | ||
Downtowntom Member Username: Downtowntom Post Number: 7 Registered: 03-2006 |
Does anyone remember that huge neon and bulb sign that looked like Cinderella's coach with the words FISHER BODY, or was it BODY BY FISHER? | ||
Broncobillybuttons Member Username: Broncobillybuttons Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ed Golick--don't remember if the tank was at the airport or not--if it was, they sure had to watch out they didn't whack it one because it was one tall structure, complete with red aviation lights! Eeee! As for Skinny, after Shorty rode off to the Great Paddock, Skinny ran off with Milky the Clown and left me strung out in South Tuscon. Now that he's got him that fancy-pants casino in Vegas, he don't give a horseapple 'bout us homeboys nohow. I'm ridin' the range one day at a time now, but life's better since my Equity pension kicked in!! |
