  Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 315 Registered: 01-2007 |
A few shots (DQP Lite) for you to chew: http://farm1.static.flickr.com /186/448830579_6056728c1a_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /216/448830577_b764aff44e_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /175/448830573_22d0c964d9_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /189/448793649_0a6b1f38d7_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /238/448793643_94f165c6fb_b.jp g | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1348 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gee, Bullet, don'tcha known where the west side is?  Seriously....thanks again. Good pix. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 329 Registered: 01-2007 |
WestJjabaside? I need to renew my passport. I guess the eastside is getting worn through, so I will take your suggestion to heart Ray1936. It is interesting in Detroit, how East really is East, and West is West. I will make the twain meet, so stay tuned friend... | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1349 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ah! Like waiting for the ketchup to fall from the bottle.....anticipation....... .. | ||
Yelloweyes Member Username: Yelloweyes Post Number: 129 Registered: 02-2007 |
which school is that in the last photo? Burroughs? Barbour? I was thinking the same thing the previous were thinking before I read their posts. | ||
Swbaby12345 Member Username: Swbaby12345 Post Number: 20 Registered: 02-2007 |
I absolutly love these pics BULLETMAGNET! I know just area you get most of them from! I too like to take pics like yours. | ||
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44 Post Number: 114 Registered: 02-2007 |
Ahh! The old Chene Trombley Market. I used to cash my checks there when the party store on Lincoln and Holden didn't have the cash. A buddy of mine used to live down the way on Farnsworth and Moran. BTW they used to have a photo in that store of the original owner upstairs with Coleman Young checking out machine guns. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 330 Registered: 01-2007 |
Gtat44, oh would I love to see that Colman Young photo! Is it in the public domain? | ||
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44 Post Number: 115 Registered: 02-2007 |
From what I remember, and it's been 4 years or so since I lived up there. It was above the beer cooler in the corner where the deli is. If you were to come in the front doors go to your upper left hand corner. Coleman was wearing a plaid brown suit, with his trademark grin sitting on a couch upstairs. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1543 Registered: 10-2003 |
Eastside's where it's at! Incidentally, the Chene-Trombly Market was moved to that location off the I-94 service drive (hell, I still call it Harper) after the original one (you guessed it... located at Chene and Trombly) was demo'd for the Poletown GM plant. Which church is in that last pic? Got any pics of Nativity of Our Lord, my dad's old parish? | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 2195 Registered: 07-2004 |
The church is St. Hyacinth Catholic Church. Bulletmagnet, you sure love that area of town. That Chene-Ford Fwy-Van Dyke-Gratiot area has to be the most abandoned area in the city. I went to school at St. Elizabeth/Eastside Vicariate and I remember when McDougall and Chene Streets were alive with activity. The GM-Poletown plant destroyed a lot of continuity between the south side of the Ford Fwy and the north side of the freeway that led to Hamtramck. I still remember the area where St. Joseph Hospital and St. John the Baptist Church used to be. Would the area still be vibrant had the GM-Poletown plant not have been built? | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 172 Registered: 04-2006 |
Let's not forget that massive incinerator belching toxic smoke across the neighborhood... Seriously, though, I've often wondered that myself. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1545 Registered: 10-2003 |
I've often heard that the incinerator and the Poletown plant were CAY's revenge for the "urban renewal" in Black Bottom. Anyone else? | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 335 Registered: 01-2007 |
Fury13, I have heard that story as well. It was kind of like introducing a plague. I guess it worked, to some extent. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1550 Registered: 10-2003 |
Oh, it worked, all right (if, in fact, that was CAY's intent). That neighborhood, which was thriving in the '60s and early '70s, is nearly dead. |
