  Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 782 Registered: 12-2005 |
Great Woodward Drive To air 11AM Sunday on PBS. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 694 Registered: 10-2003 |
Groovy. Can we stop at the Totem Pole for a Big Chief Burger? | ||
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren Post Number: 64 Registered: 10-2006 |
I wonder if they'll film it through tire smoke, like it was back in the day. All those Big 4 engineers "testing" on the street, what they were going to sell next month. They still do that? Racing on Woodward? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 792 Registered: 12-2005 |
I didn't see any racing at the Woodward Dream Cruise but there sure were a lot of nice cars! Didn't they ban pouring bleach on the pavement (to enhance the tire smoke) a few years ago? | ||
Ericdfan Member Username: Ericdfan Post Number: 163 Registered: 08-2005 |
They Featured Gratiot a while back IIRC | ||
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren Post Number: 66 Registered: 10-2006 |
I don't think you could find enough empty road during the Dream Cruise to get above the speed limit. I was thinking about Friday and Saturday nights, above Cranbrook. That's where they did it 40 years ago. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 703 Registered: 11-2003 |
Unfortunately, "Great Drives" is unheard of in the programming schedule at WKAR here in East Lansing. At 11 AM today, we instead get some stupid kids' show. I used to get WTVS here but then the worthless Comcast got rid of it. Grrr. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1041 Registered: 12-2004 |
I watched it this morning - it was a pretty good depiction of the city. In fact, they could have used an hour or more (it was only 1/2 hour). | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 797 Registered: 12-2005 |
Wonderful show! I counted only one little symbolic mention of boarded-up windows but the rest was very upbeat, e.g., Compuware's positive effect. They didn't spend too much time on just cruising either, devoting more time to Detroit history. | ||
Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch Post Number: 452 Registered: 02-2006 |
Good show, it could have easily been an hour long. The Zoo, the State Fair Grounds, many others could have been talked about. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1354 Registered: 05-2005 |
good show for sure, but how did papa joe get so much face time lol | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4436 Registered: 11-2003 |
What about the DIA, Main library, taxi dance studios, Manchester DSR yards, Mac Gregor Library, Palmer Park Apt. District, Palmer Woods Mansions, Gay Ferndale, Detroit Zoo history, Race Riots of 1943, Woodward Ave. street cars, Hudsons-Crowleys-Kerns, ETC.? jjaba, Westsider getting his haircut in a horsie chair at Hudsons. |
