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Username: Wilus1mj
Post Number: 171
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:11 pm: |    |
Just reported on Channel 4. |
Yaktown
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Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 107
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:34 pm: | |
Who is Chene Park and why would he torch a new restaurant? |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:45 pm: | |
Exactly what I was going to say...is this the first time Chene Park has torched a restaurant?
(Wilus, it's called a misplaced modifier) |
Barnesfoto
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Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 3047
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:54 pm: | |
Chene Park...wasn't he president of Korea a couple decades back? I've heard nothing but bad things about him. |
Korridorkid
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Username: Korridorkid
Post Number: 31
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:58 pm: | |
You know--I bet that damn Chene Park fella was the bastard who busted car windows in my Apt. parking lot all the way over here in the corridor.
That dudes malfeasance knows no locally known geographic boundaries.
But seriously folks--Which one was it? |
Futurecity
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Username: Futurecity
Post Number: 484
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:22 am: | |
Chene Park along with his brothers Elliot and Aubin formed the core of Detroit's legendary Green Gang. They ruled the East Riverfront during the late 70's and 80's and were primariliy known for "silo busting". They have fallen into obscurity in recent years, but now it seems that Chene's back and up to no good. |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 205
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:24 am: | |
What Restaurant? |
Detroitplanner
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Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 984
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:25 am: | |
Chene Park... I bet he did the Motor City Casino too!!!
Stop Chene! |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 508
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:29 am: | |
There was a new restaurant by Chene Park? How new was it? I haven't recalled a new one there ever. Maybe on Joseph Campau St. by River Place? |
Supersport
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Username: Supersport
Post Number: 11273
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:36 am: | |
I have a flyer down on the coffee table, I think the place is called "They Say." My guess would be it's this place, since they opened in the past year or so...but that's only a guess. I don't think Chene Park was starting any fires though. |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1206
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 1:00 am: | |
Who ratted out Chene Park? |
Royce
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Username: Royce
Post Number: 2063
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 1:25 am: | |
This place is a block south of the Manchester Apartments on Jefferson. Also, it's around the corner from Studio51 which is on Woodbridge. It's not "They Say" which is on Jos Campau a few doors down from the new Staples.
I think this place used to be called the "Woodbridge" Bar and Grill. The current incarnation is called the "Stinky Rose." Never actually saw it opened, but the name has been on the front door these past two or three years. |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 192
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 9:17 am: | |
Not the old Woodbridge Tavern????\
Is that confirmed? |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1207
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 9:54 am: | |
Oh no...the Woodbridge is so historic, that would be a shame. |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 195
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:05 am: | |
does anyone have pix? |
Dds
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Username: Dds
Post Number: 126
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:16 am: | |
If my memory serves me correct, this is the second time the Woodbridge has "burned." |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1369
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:21 am: | |
And I slept through it... |
Quinn
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Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1151
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:38 am: | |
Here's Mr. Park at a Neo Nazi rally last spring.
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Sailor_rick
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Username: Sailor_rick
Post Number: 165
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:13 pm: | |
Chene Park and his fiery ways. Here?
Damn, I figured I'd shake that sneaky rascal fer' good. He vowed he'd make good on the 500,000 Won gambling and kimchee debt I owed 'em no matter what.
Ya' see our ship was layed up in Pusan, Korea for a spell. Our crew was frequenting a house of big fun Park ran on Texas Street and one night my luck ran out.... |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1208
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 1:36 pm: | |
Chene Park...the product of a French mother and Korean father... |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 165
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 2:27 pm: | |
Referring to that picture, Chene Park needs to reverse the hair on his head.
Also, Chene is fat and needs to shut his pie hole. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3678
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 9:34 pm: | |
Who remembers the Chene gang? They were a prominent Detroit eastside gang in 50's - 60's. |
Harsensis
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Username: Harsensis
Post Number: 173
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 9:40 pm: | |
The name of the place was the Stinky Rose if I remember correctly from the news this morning. Does anybody know exactly where it was? I just hope it wasn't the old Captains, that place is cool inside with at least one wall of Vernors wood crates. |
Oldestuff
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Username: Oldestuff
Post Number: 1
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:16 pm: | |
It was the Woodbridge that burned, looks like they did it good this time. So sad, I loved the old Woodbridge and the Soup Kitchen and hated when the area got "sold out" |
Leland_palmer
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Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 223
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:20 pm: | |
The Stinky Rose was still quite stinky this afternoon.
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Southofeight
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Username: Southofeight
Post Number: 49
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 4:20 pm: | |
I miss the bars in that area, used to have a blast back in the early to mid-90s — the Soup Kitchen was definitely a great place to hang out. There was another bar, around the corner and down the street, I think it was called the Rivertown Saloon? Does that name sound right? Have I butchered it?
We watched the OJ slow-speed chase on the TV there. Of course, it was interrupting a Pistons game, but it turned out to be unusually momentous. |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1375
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 4:25 pm: | |
It wasn't the Pistons, it was the Rockets and Knicks in the NBA finals. |