Dialh4hipster Member Username: Dialh4hipster
Post Number: 2046 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
This is another question that needs to be asked. Uhaul? Movers? Put wheels on the house and drive off? |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 1218 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:43 am: | |
Strapped Grannie to the top of the pick-up and headed North |
Dialh4hipster Member Username: Dialh4hipster
Post Number: 2047 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:45 am: | |
Did you move to Bever-lee? |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 1219 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:48 am: | |
yep, with our cee-ment swimmin hole |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3259 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:48 am: | |
We walked. Put everything in two garbage bags and a wheelbarrow and walked down Harper, beyond the city limits until we found a nice tree to camp under. It took three days (a summer thunderstorm drenched us, and we had to wait for a big puddle near Cadieux to dry up). My sister was so covered in mosquito bites, we thought she might not make it. I try not to remember it, but we passed a few who didn't make it. Thanks, DialH, for bringing this neglected topic the much needed attention it deserves! |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 1221 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:50 am: | |
Mikem, thanks man, I just spit out banana all over my desk |
Bobj Member Username: Bobj
Post Number: 1974 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:54 am: | |
took the subway - oops, wrong city |
Club_boss Member Username: Club_boss
Post Number: 47 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:57 am: | |
They got on their camels and hoofed it to Dearborn. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 801 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 12:13 pm: | |
... they left it a mess. |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 437 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 12:16 pm: | |
Same way we got to the BIG D in 2002, we packed all our junk in the GEO:
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Exmotowner Member Username: Exmotowner
Post Number: 202 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 1:47 pm: | |
That car picture has me rolling! LOL! Its probably very true though. How did I leave though? Partner came to TN first and I supported us till he got a job then when he got a job, I moved. I think it ws 87. And just opposite the Beverly Hillbillies, I moved TO Bugtussle!!! |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4131 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 2:47 pm: | |
I knew it was only a matter of time until this thread got started... Now where's Jethrine.... |
Bibs Member Username: Bibs
Post Number: 688 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 2:55 pm: | |
Grandma and Grandpa sold their place in Detroit, packed their bags and hopped on a flight to Florida. |
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1437 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:03 pm: | |
Very carefully. |
Skulker Member Username: Skulker
Post Number: 3777 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:47 pm: | |
The most recent ones that left the city, left somberly in a large black hearse inside a casket as they died peaceably here and are now interred in a Southfield cemetary. Before that, they never left the City and got buried in Detroit. We've been here so long, we are running out of plots and have to send our folks to the burbs for burial. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4134 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:50 pm: | |
Ah yes Skulker, but under Jackie Currie, we could still count them as city voters, even though they "reside" in the burbs! |
Eric_w Member Username: Eric_w
Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:51 pm: | |
Rented a truck. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 995 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:55 pm: | |
It was the late 70s, so we roller skated. My dad even got me one of those Ron Popiel FM transmitting micro phones, "Hey good lookin' catch ya later" I said to our soon to be former neighbors. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 810 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 4:02 pm: | |
Cambrian, the life of the party ... |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 811 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 4:10 pm: | |
No, Cambrian, you left in a car. I have the picture to prove it!
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Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 997 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 4:22 pm: | |
That's great nerd! Just like I remember it from channel 20. |
Savannahsmiles Member Username: Savannahsmiles
Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 9:15 pm: | |
I headed south in a rented bright, shiny, orangy yellow Hertz Penske big truck. |