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Another memory: Getting a loaf of unsliced vienna bread from Oakwood Bakery just out of the oven only to be able to slap some butter on it with ease. Buttering bread made easy.........
I do, Blue Grass, but my memories are very old. Detroit was a great city when I was growing up. My Dad is from MI, worked for Ford and I spent a few of my younger years living in Livonia and Dearborn. My grandparents lived in Pontiac. My grandmother used to take us shopping at the Hudson's in Detroit. It was one of her favorite stores. I remember watching the Hudson's Thanksgiving parade every year on tv. When we lived in MI we, of course, always went into the city for the car shows. Went to Greenfield Village many times. One of my favorite memories as a kid visiting MI--getting to drink Vernors. Couldn't get it anywhere else until we moved to OH. My Dad is very proud of his MI roots (his family is from Bay City) and I love my MI memories. I know it would break my heart to see all of these places now. I've heard I wouldn't recognize them.
I grew up in Bay City. Went to St James School and sure your Dad knew someone in my family.There was many of us. Everybody knew everyone even "Madonna" :-) My father had a Dry Cleaners on Columbus Avenue near the City Dairy. I have 5 brothers.
Quiz him :-)
What are your memories (good or bad) of Detroit for those who grew up in the city or have lived there for quite some time? It can be a memory of the city per se or any random memory within the city.
Here's mine:
All the house fires on devil's night-(especially 1987)..i could look out my back porch to see all the fires through-out the city and all the news-reporters from far-flung areas of the globe coming here to report this.
Going into the salt-mine and grabbing a big chunk of salt for some kind of odd souvenir.(as a kid, of course) Yes, there is a salt mine in Detroit.
Going to Belle Isle as a kid to go on the wavy-slide.
Having a family-picnic with my "mexican" family at Patton Park. It was quite a "fiesta".
Seeing the sky turn orange at night. It was a smelting plant(Ford Rouge Complex) that would dump slag and that would turn the sky orange.
Remembering when the Pistons won the championship back in '89, my friend and i asked my uncle to drop us off downtown so we could see the parade going down Woodward.(I was 12 at the time) That was awesome.
Remembering watching a Tigers game in '87, it was one of those 1 o'clock games and i had stayed home from school. Sittin' there watching it, the camera does a pan-shot of the crowd only to have these two ladies flash their mysterious mounds of flesh on national television.
There was a local bread bakery in my old neighborhood which smelled so dang good compared to all the pollution in the area. One day, my friend and i were walking back home only to see this bakery with its back garage door open with many,many racks of bread sittin' there cooling off. So we snuck underneath the garage door and grabbed a box of bread each only within a few steps, we were chased by the bread-man down the street. Sadly, we ended up with a loaf each but there was a trail of bread in the street a block long.
Tiger Stadium. I was quite sad when they built the new stadium.
Being able to see the fireworks quite well without ever having to go downtown to see them up close and personal.We'd climb buildings as to where ever we were at.
Climbing the old Ford Tower by the Ford Rouge Complex/Rouge River! Dang, that thing is high but doesn't look like it from the ground!
Coleman Young!
(to mention a few)
You don't go back far enough.
Plum street in the late 60's.You want a clue? Pull up the video of Smooth.MTV version. That was reality.
Going downtown on a bus as a child. No fear,safe. Hudsons. Kresgee.
Going downtown at 3 in the morning for a Bagel and Loks.Ppl barbequing ribs on the sidewalk.Drive up, get a slab. Not having to watch your back.....
It was a GREAT city. The idiots that caused the riots of 68,the stories of my mother, where she worked and the ppl that were just trash.Started the demise of this city.
When Kronk boxing started to be the hotbed of boxing talent here and elsewhere , they used to have a card every couple of months at the Red Barn (Olympia Stadium ) I saw Hearns first pro fight and about 6-7 more Hearns fights after that . Another knock out guy that also fought was Mickey Goodwin from Melvindale maybe . No feeling out the other boxer with those 2 guys , as soon as the bell rung they were on a mission and the bouts usually ended quick lol Last I heard the bigger of the Bob-Lo boats was purchased and towed to New York to be refurbished as a restaurant or maybe a shuttle in their harbor . The smallest Bob-Lo boat(Ste. Clair) is being refurbished maybe in Wyandotte ? I was born in Detroit but lived off of Woodward across the border in Ferndale . I used to take the bus downtown , window shop in the many stores , or sit on the river by Cobo and watch the Lake freighters go by all day .
Post #161 I think ''Does any one else remember the WABX Kite-ins back in the early 70s? '' That would be the ones at Belle Isle right ? I was there , don't remember a whole lot I believe Bob Seger played at one of them when '' Back in '72 '' was a hit
My memories of Detroit go back to the early 50's. First we lived on Virginia Park and it was great. There was a group of jazz musicians that would jam on the back porch of the house behind us on Friday nights, so my grandfather and I would sit out there and listen.
At least once a month mom and I walked up to Grand River and took the bus downtown. My earliest memory of downtown was going for my first eye exam and being rewarded for being good with going to the Fox Theater to see Cinderella! It was a brand new movie back then...we followed that up with hamburgers and a banana split at the Woolworth diner mezzanine. After someone stole our neighbors yard (he had just sodded it, and it was in the Town Talk column of the Detroit News) we moved to the Grand River/Greenfield area...and we used to live in the stores that were there back then. Wards, Federals, Crowley, Cunninghams, A&P...the list is endless. The Great Lakes Theater was only 5 blocks away and I grew up at the Saturday matinees.
Here is something no one else has mentioned yet...Does anyone remember Lee Alan and his horn on WXYZ radio? He and Dave Prince also hosted a teen dance show on Saturday afternoons.
There are so many other things...but I have to fix dinner for now. Will be back and tell more when I have time
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Hudsons christmas shopping
Started the demise of this city.
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