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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1748
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 12:28 pm: |    |
25, born in Port Huron, raised in Kalamazoo and Decatur, IL. WMU grad. Discovered site while living in Ferndale in 2005. Moved to Chicago in 2006. |
Bigd
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Username: Bigd
Post Number: 6
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 12:52 pm: | |
25, Born in Ludington, MSU and UM grad. Attorney living in downtown Detroit. |
Evelyn
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Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 176
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 1:02 pm: | |
I’m 26. Born in Pontiac, grew up in Dearborn, lived in Detroit while going to school, proud WSU alum. Wanderlust got the better of me, moved to the southwest last year.
I lurk more than I post, but I like threads about Detroit history, (especially Wayne State history) old photographs and maps, and current building development. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 461
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 1:06 pm: | |
I am 50 years old; most folks tell me that I don't look a day over 49.
I generally take it as a backhanded compliment |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2881
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 1:07 pm: | |
This old fart stands impressed with the accomplishments of the young side of DY.
I doff my hat and bow to you! |
Kgrimmwsu
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Username: Kgrimmwsu
Post Number: 108
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 1:07 pm: | |
Im 23. Born in Ypsilanti
Went to Pinckney High School
Graduated from WMU in 2007
CMU Grad student |
Yooperindetroit
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Username: Yooperindetroit
Post Number: 12
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 2:58 pm: | |
Gazhekwe,
Awesome...Another Yooper!••• I am originally from Manistique. What do you do down here? Instead of keeping the conv on here...email me you want. aubrey2121@yahoo |
J_to_the_jeremy
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Username: J_to_the_jeremy
Post Number: 48
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 3:07 pm: | |
I'm 18, and will be at Wayne State next year hopefully doing Urban Studies. I think I found the forum through Lowell's "Ruins of Detroit" tour.
I check this site pretty much every day, it's too interesting. I like any topics about the city, especially the HOF Threads. |
Scout
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Username: Scout
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 3:18 pm: | |
38
U of D grad
WSU grad school grad
Live in Greeeeen Acres
Evidently, I'm pushing that mean up... |
Dan_the_man
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Username: Dan_the_man
Post Number: 51
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
21
I currently attend UDM and I'm living in Harper Woods. |
Burnsie
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Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 1328
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 3:50 pm: | |
28.
History B.A. at MSU, library sci. master's at WSU. Born & raised in Flint, now in E. Lansing.
Grandparents, mom's side, lived in Pleasant Ridge for 38 years, briefly Royal Oak & Detroit before that. They lived in the oldest house in PR-- 44 Ridge Rd., built in 1908.
Often when we turned off Woodward to visit them, I'd glimpse part of the Detroit skyline, at the point where it's first visible coming south on Woodward. I wanted to keep going, all the way to downtown! And occasionally we did.
(Message edited by Burnsie on March 20, 2008) |
Spaceman_spiff
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Username: Spaceman_spiff
Post Number: 114
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:06 pm: | |
24, UDM undergrad, currently in law school, graduate in May. Self-employed.
-spiff |
Detroits_own
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Username: Detroits_own
Post Number: 81
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:16 pm: | |
25 B & R'd Detroit, Renaissance HS, CMU Graduate '05, in boring Farmington Hills for two years now.. |
Detmi7mile
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Username: Detmi7mile
Post Number: 39
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:46 pm: | |
23...in school at Hampton U in VA...King hs grad...grew up in the 7mile livernois area...probably going to stay in VA. Not because I hate Detroit though!!
check out my travel website too!! Not complete though yet
www.detroit-travel-guide.com |
Detmi7mile
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Username: Detmi7mile
Post Number: 40
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:47 pm: | |
Mdoyle...thumbs up for graphic design...that my major as well |
Bragaboutme
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Username: Bragaboutme
Post Number: 75
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 4:52 pm: | |
Ok 7mile good link, and V.A. is a nice place... slow, but still nice. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2394
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 5:46 pm: | |
25
Livonia Stevenson '01
M. Arch. from UDM '06
Fell in love with Detroit while going to UDM, but a damn hard place to find an architecture job.
Living in a world away: Charlotte, NC |
Designerguy24
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Username: Designerguy24
Post Number: 116
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 5:50 pm: | |
26 Class of 2000 Warren Woods Tower now attend Macomb Community College for photography |
Hooha
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Username: Hooha
Post Number: 173
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 6:34 pm: | |
26, U of M grad, soon to be one again. Been lurking here for a loooooong time (started back when the ghettoman used to post here). Started posting a couple years ago, but mostly in threads related to beer and sports. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1061
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 6:39 pm: | |
I am one of those "younger people". Really I am... |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 10147
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 6:43 pm: | |
34 here and sick and fucking tired of those HS threads. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo, people went to HS and are still "bringing back memories". Nothing like living in the past. The most irritating part is that those threads shove more of the interesting threads down the list.
Really, other than old farts who really gives two shits about what HS a person went to.
Ahhh, that was a nice venting. |
French777
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Username: French777
Post Number: 382
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 6:46 pm: | |
16 in Rochester Hills
planning on going to Wayne State to be an Urban Planner!
Rochester High School 10th grade |
Bragaboutme
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Username: Bragaboutme
Post Number: 81
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 6:48 pm: | |
The G.O.A.T has spoken. |
Rbdetsport
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Username: Rbdetsport
Post Number: 482
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 7:15 pm: | |
I am 16 years old. I am a junior in high school at Utica Ford. I have been lurking here since 2003. Yes I was in 7th grade! I began posting in november of 2005. I have also been an active poster at urbanplanet since february of 2005. I was quiet a young person to be interested in Detroit and to my parents, it was almost one of my weirder traits. You know, I am a normal kid- good in school, great at sports, awesome friends, and I'm interested in Detroit, being a white suburbanite. I am interested in everything about Detroit.
I hope to go to college hopefully with some sort of baseball scholarship and study Architecture/City Planning. After college, I hope to live in a rental loft or apartment in downtown or Midtown Detroit. Maybe sometime after living in Detroit, I will run for city council. I tend to take a strong interest in politics. Wish me luck!
My favorite thread- Quicken urges others to move, too.
Favorite Developments- Major Quicken Loans Plans, Cadillac Square, Book Cadillac, Greektown Casino, Ellington, Studio One, Pick Fort Shelby, etc.
I am in love with Detroit and everyday I set out to change someones opinions whether it is my parents or my friends or just some random person. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1065
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 7:21 pm: | |
The Masonic Temple
Black members on Detroit Yes roll call!
White Flight 2.0
Lost Giant Movie Palaces
Mayor Kilpatrick Text Message Scandal ::: Mega Thread
Younger people on DetroitYES!
Are there any drive-thru beer,pop type of places anymore?
Greektown Casino/Hotel Progress
2-story bowling alley in SW Det. I think
911 is a Joke!
American Axle Strike
My promotional Video for Detroit!
Best Lunch Special in Detroit!
The Wire 2: Detroit?
Greystone Hall on Michigan Ave
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Work @ the Book Cadillac
FAMOUS QUOTES(det gov style)
Anti crime survelliance cameras
Save the Grande concert series being planned
Looking to seal two major development deals
St. Jude Church/School Nostalgia
[City's residency rule could cost millions for charities]...Just to...
Livonia asked to annex Northville Township land
Who's Going to the Parade?
Fisher Building lighting schemes
Eastwood memories
Big Sports Weekend in Detroit (March 28-31)
Etc, etc, etc….
3 here and sick and fucking tired of those threads. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo, people are still "bringing back memories". Nothing like living in the past. The most irritating part is that those threads shove more of the interesting threads down the list.
Really, other than old farts who really gives two shits about what a person posts to.
Ahhh, that was a nice venting. |
Buzzman0077
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Username: Buzzman0077
Post Number: 162
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 7:28 pm: | |
28 Grew up in Plymouth, undergrad at MSU, now in third year of med school in Kansas City. Hope to be back in the D for residency. |
Buzzman0077
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Username: Buzzman0077
Post Number: 163
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 7:29 pm: | |
also Jasoncw are you the same one creating detroit stuff for simtropolis? |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2395
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:05 pm: | |
"I hope to go to college hopefully with some sort of baseball scholarship and study Architecture/City Planning."
Too bad Detroit Mercy got rid of their baseball team a couple of years ago. That would have fit your bill. |
Stryker81
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Username: Stryker81
Post Number: 67
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:15 pm: | |
I'm 26 and came across this forum about 4 years ago. Will be graduating from WSU with a B.A. this fall. |
Bearinabox
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Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 563
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:36 pm: | |
quote:34 here and sick and fucking tired of those HS threads. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo, people went to HS and are still "bringing back memories". Nothing like living in the past. The most irritating part is that those threads shove more of the interesting threads down the list.
Really, other than old farts who really gives two shits about what HS a person went to.
Ahhh, that was a nice venting. Maybe a sixth channel is in order for memories and nostalgia. If they enjoy talking about that stuff, great, but it really does clutter up Discuss Detroit with threads that aren't interesting or relevant to most forumers. |
Aaron
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Username: Aaron
Post Number: 141
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:42 pm: | |
Hey, I remember nostalgia! Anyone else? |
Rbdetsport
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Username: Rbdetsport
Post Number: 483
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
"Too bad Detroit Mercy got rid of their baseball team a couple of years ago. That would have fit your bill."
Yea Charlottepaul, that hurt bad when I saw that a few years back. |
Maryellen22471
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Username: Maryellen22471
Post Number: 99
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:10 pm: | |
I'm 37
Cabrini High School grad(Allen Park)
WSU Alum
I grew up in Allen Park and am still living there
Mom's side of the family is from NW Detroit-My mom grew up on Abington and my dad was from SW Detroit-he grew up on Longworth. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4646
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:26 pm: | |
Just in case you wonder where this thread went, after it goes, it will be moved the Detroit Connections forum tomorrow. Among the purposes of the Connections forum is "For discussion among forum members, discussions about the forum". This thread and its companion "Black members on Detroit Yes roll call!" are discussion about the forum, not Detroit per se, so they belong there.
That said, wisecracks from interlopers aside, I have enjoyed this thread. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5281
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:36 pm: | |
I'm 96. Detroit Eastern High School class of 1930. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4648
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:46 pm: | |
That said, wisecracks from interlopers aside, I have enjoyed this thread.  |
Meaghansdad
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Username: Meaghansdad
Post Number: 258
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:48 pm: | |
About to push that mean up again!!
32
ML King, HS
Madonna University, undergrad
UDM grad
Living in Harper Woods
Love Detroit, still do a lot of volunteering and tutoring there.
Still own a home there. Left for various reasons. Chief among them the school system.
Got a great home, at a great price, on a great street close to 8 mile, the freeway, some shopping , in a great school system (Grosse Pointe) |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4510
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:24 pm: | |
21
-about to graduate from UM. I joined when I was 18 and attending Wayne State, after GP South. I'm here to keep up on development news, find out what people are thinking as attitudes about Detroit slowly change, to learn more about Detroit history (which I love), and to chime in on topics of economics and history.
-I'm moving to NYC and/or N. Jersey for further studies this summer, but certainly returning to Detroit, with big plans for improving the city. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2399
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
Well Rbdetsport, I suppose that you could pick up one of the new sports at Detroit Mercy (assuming you weren't relying on baseball to earn you a scholarship): http://www.detroittitans.com/n ews.jsp?id=1189002344400 |
Sean_of_detroit
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Username: Sean_of_detroit
Post Number: 25
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 10:40 am: | |
Since I never really introduced myself...
23 on the 26th. I was born in Dearborn and grew up in Westland, Livonia, and Redford. I moved to Downtown Detroit's Park Apartments when I was about 18, and currently live here six months out of the year. The other six are spent in Saginaw (Delta College - Business Entrepreneurship). I am currently engaged. We plan on getting married at the Belle Isle conservatory next summer. Both of us currently run our own internet business and plan to move to the city permanently, opening separate brick and mortar locations. We hope to eventually settle down in one of Detroit's historic neighborhoods.
BTW, thanks for all the welcomes I got on the boards. |
Upinthewoods
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Username: Upinthewoods
Post Number: 30
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 4:38 pm: | |
26 here and from Lake Orion. In a former life I have been here since '04 but I posted under a different personna then. |
Lilacgirl
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Username: Lilacgirl
Post Number: 259
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 3:41 pm: | |
Wow, I haven't been on here in so long. I'm 26 orig from Grosse Pointe Park, but moved to Vegas almost five years ago. I'm feeling a bit homesick as of right now. I just want to be able to sit downtown and people watch like I use to. =) |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2905
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 4:22 pm: | |
Where at, Lilacgirl? We're at Anthem in Henderson. And I'm not hitting on you, I'm just an old fart. Besides, my wife won't let me. |
Lilacgirl
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Username: Lilacgirl
Post Number: 260
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:46 pm: | |
I'm right by Sunrise Mountain. My roommates Aunt lives in Anthem. I really enjoy it out there. |
Jams
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Username: Jams
Post Number: 8061
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:54 pm: | |
just saying Hi Lilacgirl!
5 years, damn. |
Lilacgirl
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Username: Lilacgirl
Post Number: 261
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:02 pm: | |
JAMS!•••••• I've missed you standing behind my bar. =( It just isn't the same here. I still can't believe I've been here this long. I've stood firm about not moving home, even after my mom and aunt both left Vegas. |
Jams
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Username: Jams
Post Number: 8065
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:41 pm: | |
Miss you sweety, too.
If you can, meet up with Ray1936, I'm looking forward to his return to Detroit, I so enjoyed his stories when I met him last time. |
Umbound
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Username: Umbound
Post Number: 65
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 12:21 pm: | |
Anynody here go to Bloomfield Hills Andover and graduated in '06? |
Gertrude
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Username: Gertrude
Post Number: 49
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:56 pm: | |
Goat, I could have written your post word for word. Including the age. Which makes me too old for this thread and too young to remember anything on the nostalgia threads. Is this what distinguishes middle age?
Anyway...
Healy Elementary 84
St. Gemma 87
Mercy HS 91
OCC 06
WSU 08
PhD?? |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2925
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 10:08 pm: | |
Lookin like mid-August this year, Jams. |
Jdub1106
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Username: Jdub1106
Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 - 3:51 pm: | |
27 year old lifetime Detroit resident. We just purchased our first home in the Bagley area 3 years ago. Grew up in Rosedale and Aviation sub. My 5 year old son will begin at Bates Academy in Sept.
Attended:
Burton International '94
Renaissance HS '98
University of Michigan '03
University of Detroit...'09
(Message edited by Jdub1106 on March 28, 2008) |
Miketoronto
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Username: Miketoronto
Post Number: 848
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:31 am: | |
26 here.
I got interested in Detroit mostly from visiting Detroit to see family, and then from the internet forums showcasing the city.
One of the big moments I remember, was my first trip into Downtown Detroit. It was sadly to go to the Detroit Medical Centre to visit our cousin who was in a car accident. Anyway my parents made a wrong turn and we ended up in Grand Circus Park and also ended up driving along Gratiot Ave near Eastern Market.
Have been hooked on Detroit ever since
After that, my friend and I took a day trip via train to Windsor and then the tunnel bus into Detroit. We met up with this guy named Dan who was trying to save the Hudson's building. We basically only had like two or three hours in the city if that, before we had to get back to Windsor. But we had a blast, and that led to even more trips to visit downtown Detroit.
Actually if Dan is on this site, give me a shout at michaelb_@hotmail.com
Would be nice to touch base with Dan again, as we lost touch somehow.
(Message edited by miketoronto on March 29, 2008) |
Korridorkid
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Username: Korridorkid
Post Number: 103
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:37 pm: | |
Who am I to buck a trend?
23 year old here, enjoying life in the Corridor, (or Midtown if you like, but does it really matter so long as it's a great place to live?), Restoring my century old apartment, WSU communications major.
Looking forward to new development, sustainability and walkability in Midtown and would like to be a part of it for a long time to come.
Committed to Detroit even after graduation.
Ahh, i feel better... |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 565
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 8:25 pm: | |
26, been posting on here since high school. Graduated from West Bloomfield High in 2000. I was probably one of the first people to discover the bulletin board. I don't even think it was called DetroitYes at the time, just a section of the Fabulous Ruins.
Anyway, as you can see I don't post often (565 posts in just over four years) but I read every day.
Currently, I live downtown in an apartment in Lafayette Park. Moved downtown in 2005 after years of having such an infatuation with the city and finally being able to be independent enough to do so.
First became infatuated with Detroit in 1994 when Mayor Archer took over and promised us a revitalized city. |
Ffdfd
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Username: Ffdfd
Post Number: 277
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:42 pm: | |
quote:26, been posting on here since high school. Graduated from West Bloomfield High in 2000
Yikes. People who graduated from high school in the 21st century can already be 26?! Where did the time go? |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 566
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 1:59 am: | |
I know!! Trust me, I feel old. |
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