Broncobillybuttons Member Username: Broncobillybuttons
Post Number: 4 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 4:29 am: | |
Like many fine people of good taste, I was born in Mt. Carmel Hospital (just in time for the Happy Hour, 5:30 Friday, May 4th, 1951). Coast to Coast Radio host George Noory was born there eleven months earlier. Florence Ballard, true founder and leader of the Supremes, crossed over to God there. Well, I've tried and failed to get more information. Who was born there and who died there? The place was a regular railroad station, all that coming and going. I want to know about famous people--Motown artists, entertainers, athletes, whoever--and just regular schmucks (like me)! This is a history that needs to be compiled (those Carmelite nuns just about scared my poor little old Southern mama half to death, but she got over it)! |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 340 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 8:38 am: | |
<--- Born there 1966 (I'm a regular schumck!). I was never scared by the Carmelite nuns; in fact they helped to turn me into the complex character I am, as they also taught me grade school. A mix if out of the box, sarcasm, willing to stick my neck out in arguments... |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 733 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 12:22 pm: | |
Born there in 1969. |
Atl_runner
Member Username: Atl_runner
Post Number: 1955 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 12:59 pm: | |
born there.. had several ear operations there as well. I made the Mt. Carmel news, have the article complete with a photo of me being pushed around on a tricycle and this huge head bandage. What does all this mean? Nothing. Just fun to remember. |
Craggy Member Username: Craggy
Post Number: 209 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 1:13 pm: | |
My late father was the CEO at Mt. Carmel in the 80's. Tough sledding keeping the place in the black every year. But he managed to do it, while maintaining quality care. |
Broncobillybuttons Member Username: Broncobillybuttons
Post Number: 7 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 3:11 am: | |
Come to think of it, those Carmelite nuns may have had a trick or two up their sleeves in regard to me; being premature, they stuck me in an incubator and kept me for a week, so who knows. Today I may be the only life-long Protestant who can sing the Divine Mercy Rosary from memory, or draw with either hand--while blindfolded--a recognizable caricature of St. Titus Brandsma. Whoopee! As John Wesley always used to say, "Sour Godliness is the Devil's Religion", or so they taught us back in Sunday school at Greenfield Methodist (now People's U.M.). We lived across from the nunnery at Immaculate Heart of Mary (got a real good view of their long underwear on the clothesline every washday)--when I was 2 years old I would embarrass the crap out of my mother by going to the screen door when the nuns were walking by and hollering, "Look, Mommy, Witches!! Witches!!" Well. Things seem awfully tame around here by comparison, save for the occasional mountain lion or leaking hot tub. Them was the days!! |
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher
Post Number: 762 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 8:51 am: | |
My sister was born there in 1971...she's still alive and is of no importance to anyone but us |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3259 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 11:06 am: | |
Maserati Rick was executed in his bed there during the 80's... |
Maryellen22471 Member Username: Maryellen22471
Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:00 pm: | |
my aunts were born there(one died at birth) and when my grandmother had to be hospitalized she went there because her doctor was there. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4465 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:07 pm: | |
jjaba's mother had her leg cut badly by a Northlawn bus and rushed to Mt. Carmel Hospital. As kids, we couldn't visit so we waved to her up there through the window about the sixth floor. Dad couldn't cook so we ate a lotta cereal and hot dogs and beans. It was about 1955. jjaba, Proudly Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. Bronco Billy, welcome to Forum. |
Rob__bob Member Username: Rob__bob
Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:35 pm: | |
September 4, 1962 |
Ray Member Username: Ray
Post Number: 821 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:24 pm: | |
I was. |
Cris Member Username: Cris
Post Number: 430 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 7:48 pm: | |
Rob_bob, you and I were born on the same day, 9/4/62 My husband was born at Mt. Carmel Mercy. I, however, was born elsewhere (Hurley Hospital, Flint) |