  56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 604 Registered: 12-2005 |
Richard Kughn has sold the Whitney restaurant to former Chrysler executive Bud Liebler. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20060919/B IZ/609190361&SearchID=73257345 304562 | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2809 Registered: 08-2004 |
I was going to say that Kughn now has more time to play with his trains, but he sold them 11 years ago! | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 605 Registered: 12-2005 |
Gistok--he didn't sell all of them, just the extra 11,000 or so items he wasn't using. Dick is thinning the heard and simplifying his life--not a bad idea. | ||
Dialh4hipster Member Username: Dialh4hipster Post Number: 1787 Registered: 11-2004 |
Hopefully the new owner will call in a landscape architect. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1861 Registered: 06-2004 |
And a menu architecht. It ain't 1988 any more, please update the bland and dated menu. Thanks. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 6822 Registered: 12-2003 |
I think I've heard about that herd. It's been trying to thin ITSELF for most of our lives. We're the ones who keep piling on. | ||
Mjb3 Member Username: Mjb3 Post Number: 110 Registered: 11-2004 |
The City Clounsil is tying up the liquor lic transfer. Something about allowing "dancing" at the Whitney. I assume this is ballroom or club dancing, not the kind male chauvinist pigs promote at BT's, Landing Strip, Trumps, Tycoons. (Not that I would ever patronize those types of places). Are they going to have big bands, jazz bands. The Whitney would be a hit as a supper club with dancing as long as they kept a couple rooms quiet(Library, pink room) | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2814 Registered: 08-2004 |
I can't picture any room large enough for dancing in? They would have to clear the tables from the Parlor or Library. And that would cost seating wise... I think that the landscaping keeps the folks outside the wrought iron fence from being seen by the patrons inside the yard, during garden functions. | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 64 Registered: 05-2006 |
Whitney gardens get a makeover | ||
Dialh4hipster Member Username: Dialh4hipster Post Number: 1788 Registered: 11-2004 |
Holy shit, I wished it and it came true! That's great. Let's see ... next I wish that Wayne State would restore the reflecting pool areas next to Yamasaki's McGregor Memorial Conference Center! | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 609 Registered: 12-2005 |
Dial 4- while you are at it, wish that all of the bums and panhandlers would find a job, all of the urban miners would put that energy into a real job and that the general populus stop stealing everthing that isn't too heavy to carry away. | ||
Frenchman_in_the_d Member Username: Frenchman_in_the_d Post Number: 40 Registered: 08-2006 |
Dialh4hispter, I doubt WSU would restore their reflecting pools. According to kwame and his Manoogian Mansion, it costs around $200.000 to do such things... or... WSu would probably would do it if they had tax money dollars... | ||
Jmy8 Member Username: Jmy8 Post Number: 2627 Registered: 10-2003 |
Greening can have its next gala in my backyard if it volunteers to landscape it. | ||
Wmuchris Member Username: Wmuchris Post Number: 440 Registered: 06-2005 |
Please everybody come to the Greening of Detroit Gala. Today is the last day to register. It is going to be a wonderful time, and a great opportunity to support a good cause. I am also under the impression that many local dignitaries will be there. I'm hoping to talk to Roger Penske. www.greeningofdetroit.com | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10627 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yeah, what's up with that? They were filled earlier this year, long enough for one of my dogs (Zeus) to fall in up to his neck and flip out. Then, weeks later they drained it and that's how it was for the rest of the year. I believe it was filled for the Art Festival, then emptied shortly there after. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1866 Registered: 06-2004 |
So what you are telling us is that your inability to have your dog on a leash has cost all of us the ongoing joy of the reflecting pool? | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 629 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Helen L. De Roy Auditorium's pool had a lot of repair work done last year, and I've occasionally seen it with water after that (though less than half the amount it originally was filled with). | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 630 Registered: 11-2003 |
And I do hope they cut a lot of that stuff growing by the fence at the Whitney. You can barely see the damned house from the street. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2821 Registered: 08-2004 |
Burnsie, something tells me that the dense foliage is intentional. They probably don't want panhandlers panhandling the patrons in the garden thru the wrought iron fence. | ||
Dialh4hipster Member Username: Dialh4hipster Post Number: 1789 Registered: 11-2004 |
Dense foliage is one thing. It's just overgrown. |
