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[Quemonius]

TY (Tyler) telephone prefixes.
Brick roads on Michigan Ave
Elevator man with the brass rotating control lever at Hudson's (First floor! Woman's wear! Second Floor Mens wear!)
Santa Claus at Hudson's and the malls
Cobo Hall Christmas Festival (or was that Frankenmuth??)
Ice skating at Palmer Park's pond
Woolworth's diner
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor on birthday's, Ice cream face with the cone hat (Ha! I made one yesternight!)
BigBoy restaurants
Belle Isle canoeing, horseback riding, giant slide, swing sets, fountains
Counting ships and listening to the ships horns on Belle Isle
Fishing off the pier
Fireworks, festivals and parades
Old train station, Uniroyal tire
Tiger stadium hotdogs and Cracker Jack!!! Olympia stadium
Burger King on Woodward/Davison! Real grilled burgers!
Pizza Hut with the huge barrel tables and booths (I always needed a booster seat)
Swim-o-bile, play-mobile and summer block parties
The smell of bread, hostess cakes and potato chips.
Vernor's, Faygo and those fruity colored sodas that came in a wooden crate
Tree lined streets.
Livernois Avenue of Fashion Spiegel's and other storefronts
Wigshops(I was afraid to walk past all those headbusts)
Factories and Industries
Bus drivers announcing streets (Woodwardddd ave, Clairmooooount!)
Street car trolleys!!!Horse drawn buggies!!!
The Peoplemover train at Fairlane that went to the Hilton?? hotel.
Candy apples, carmel corn, cotton candy, elephant ears, corn dogs, goldfish in bowls at the State Fair
Edgewater Park!!!
Roller skating
Boblo boat rides and all day fun on the Island
Drive-Ins, the Merury theatre and the malls
The sound of the bowling alley on Wyoming/7 mile (there was a speaker so you could hear the strikes!)
The Masonic Temple concerts/plays/etc.
Fruit trees and mulberryberry bushes in yards
The Detroit-Windsor tunnel and Ambassador bridge.
Driving down Pontchatrain looking at the Mansions
The drygoods store, the slaughter house, Eastern market.
Playing hide n seek, hopscotch, jumprope, red light, mother may I?, Marco Polo
Going to Tindell, Butzel, NW Activity and Crowell rec centers (I took dance and gymnastics for years)
Going to YMCA, YWCA, Mumford high school, and Palmer Park to swim, play tennis, and run track.
Good Humour Ice cream trucks and Mr. Softee
Penny candy stores and arcades
Halloween trick or treating with pillow cases.
Trips to Greenfield Village, Fort Wayne, DIA and the apple orchard

[Wingnatic]

Here's an article in today's Detroit Free Press re-visiting Kronk Boxing , this story is way to massive so I'll just post a link . These newspaper stories usually last a few weeks before going into a paid archive . I'm disappointed there was no mention(unless I missed it) of a white boxer that Emmanuel Stewart trained and had many fights early in Kronk Boxing cards at the Olympia , Mickey Goodwin from Melvindale . If anyone ever saw a Mickey Goodwin fight you'd know 2 things , the fight didn't last long , and you'd wonder how someone could throw a punch that hard . The only thing I can think of why there is no mention is that Mickey had a falling out with Stewart and got another trainer and moved to New York .
Fighting back: Steward maintains Kronk's legacy | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

[MICoastieMom]

I haven't read the entire thread so not if someone has already shared this. I thought it was a fun site to jump start some memories that I had forgotten about.

Detroit Memories

[Wingnatic]

I think one other member here said that they subscribe to the monthly newsletter besides myself . Boy if your a native Detroiter , get the monthly newsletter ! I participated in the 2006 Detroit Memories Reunion and had a blast . Here I am in the foreground of picture #7

Slideshow of pictures, photos, and videos, from webshots

[Wingnatic]

R.I.P. Mickey

MICKEY GOODWIN
Kronk's first star killed at home
Mickey Goodwin, the Downriver boxer who became Kronk’s first star, was found bludgeoned to death in his home Tuesday, according to Melvindale Police.

Goodwin’s body was discovered about 5 p.m. at the house on Ruth Street in Melvindale he shared with his mother, said Lt. Keith Guyot.

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Kronk's first star killed at home | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

[Twehttam]

Update to the story above:

Mickey Goodwin, the Downriver boxer who became Kronk’s first star, died of a stroke in home, Melvindale police said this afternoon.
Goodwin’s body was discovered about 5 p.m. at the house on Ruth Street in Melvindale he shared with his mother, said Lt. Keith Guyot.

Goodwin’s mother was not home at the time.

Melvindale Police Detective Mike Welch said that Goodwin was not beaten as suspected earlier. Welch said the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office had ruled that the death was not a homicide.

“It looks like he might have had a stroke and fallen down the stairs,” Welch said of the 51-year-old boxer.

Officers went to check on Goodwin after being told that he had not shown up for work at the River Rouge gym where he trained boxers.
Kronk's first star died of stroke, not beating | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

[Wingnatic]

Thank you for the update

[tonyn1]

The giant stove by Belle Isle
The aquarium, hothouse, fountain, bell tower, zoo, and canoes on Belle Isle.
Boblo and the Boblo boats. Watching the engine on the boats.
Ford Rotunda and the Christmas parties they had there.
The Rouge plant and the tours through there
The yearly spraying of the elm trees
Giant gas tank on Shaefer with "Gas is Best" sign.
Bill Kennedy
Poopdeck Paul
Detroit Zoo
Downtown Hudsons and the elevator operators
Vernors
Briggs Stadium (before it was renamed "Tiger Stadium")
The 68 and 84 Tigers
Doubleheaders
Hydroplane races on the river
Cruising on Woodward and Telegraph
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Kensington Park
Camp Dearborn
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts
My first flight ever out of City Airport

[Shrewsbury Road]

We used to live on the North East Side of Detroit as a kid in the seventies, on Cliff Street and owned a grocery store on Seven Mile. At that time all the neighbor children played and we went to Fanny Richards Elementary which is now Marion Law Elementary. The houses were brick and the lawns were well manacured but people slowly put their houses up for sale. Today I know west of Cliff Street the neighborhood has declined, east of cliff street no as much and north of outer drive there not as noticeable. I remember going to Hudsons and visiting grandma. It was all so nice. There wasn't that much of a crime issue and for some time our school was kind of nice. The teachers were very nice too and the school was mixed with black and white. Some kids didn't get along.

[azguitarguy]

I've been in AZ since '76 but I grew up in Detroit. I spent most of my childhood near 7 mile east of what is now I-75 (used to be John R). It was a beautiful neighborhood in the 50's. I've been back to take photos since and wow, it has really gone downhill. The house I grew up in is now an empty lot (kind of sad) and a lot of the stores I used to go to are abandoned and boarded up. In my teens my family moved to the 6 mile John R area. I think one of the Vernors bottling plants was near there. I've been back to this area for photos too and most of the homes are now gone. It looks like it's going to be back to a forest some day unless they start building there again. I used to deliver newspapers there so it's a shock to see the homes gone. What happened to Detroit? I remember many of the things people have written about here and have a lot of good memories about those early Detroit days but it sure has changed. My mom still lives in Oak Park so I come back to MI now and then but I don't normally drive into Detroit anymore.