  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5958 Registered: 10-2003 |
Here is today's P.D.J. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1070 Registered: 12-2004 |
Where will the girlies dance now? | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5148 Registered: 02-2004 |
Good riddance to bad porno rubbish! The Widsorites don't need a ghetto bar in their city. | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 106 Registered: 12-2003 |
  RIP: The Chappell House The Chappell House, aka The Lido, aka Rumrunners/The President's Club was a very popular roadhouse during Prohibition, 1919-1931. Built within a few feet of Sandwich Street, it had a sign over the entrance that read "At All Hours." Accompanying posters on its railings advertised frog legs, chicken and fish dinners. from "Postcards from the Past, Volume 1: Windsor and the Border Cities" http://walkerville.com/postcards/index.html | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2890 Registered: 10-2003 |
nice stuff ... An all hours roadhouse "speak" from back in the olden tymes (I'll bet it predated prohibition as an easy house) reborn as a late century nude dancing bar gets razed in the 21st century. On the Detroit side of things most of those places were smaller and nondescript, In the area around the CBD very few survived the riverfront urban renewal projects from the 50s-70s, let alone the slash and burn of the 80's and 90s. IMO Detroit's history as a sleazy bordertown (predating prohibition, btw) runs deep in Detroit's culture. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5959 Registered: 10-2003 |
True Rustic. This place was waaaay west. If you drove straight across the river from this place, you'd end up in Delray. The reason for the location is kind of strange. Back in the 1870's some investors were drilling for oil out that way, when they hit a sulphur spring... Quackery being what it was back then, quickly established a healthy Mineral Spring. A canal was dreged out to the river, and ferries brought people by the boatloads. Hotels were quickly built to house all the visitors. The spring dried up and the fad passed, however the Chapel Hotel was very popular. So popular in fact that a second hotel was built to replace the first one around 1904. That second building, was the one that was demolished this week. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4447 Registered: 11-2003 |
Sitting Shiva saying Kaddish for the Tigers and Rum Runners. Love from Bugsy Seigel, Purples. |
