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Old 01-10-2007, 03:21 AM
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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)
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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.
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Yeah, i remember the Hudson Building off Woodward! My relatives would tell me stories of sneaking out of school to go downtown to "play" in the Hudson building and how great and "fancy" it was. Sadly, i've only seen it in disrepair before they imploded the building. That was a neat thing to see a building like it coming down.
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Does anyone remember the explosion that happened at the Ford/Rouge complex in the boiler department not too long ago?
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Here is the complex! The tower in the upper-right hand corner used to be a fun climb!
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Former Detroiter...best memories:

getting carmel corn somewhere near the J.L. Hudson building downtown...

the real tiger stadium

bell isle

Detroit zoo

fireworks on the river near the ren cen....

god I haven't been back to Detroit since 1984....when the Tiger's Roared....

Saw the end of a segment on BET "American Gangsters" about the Chambers Brothers & crack in the mid '80s in Detroit...now I've lived in NYC and FL since then and I'd rather be in Manhattan at 3 a.m. than downtown Detroit......those burned out buildings look worse than Harlem......my god....

I can't believe anyone really lives there....


What the hell happened to Michigan since the 1990's...?
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Funny thing as a kid, i didn't know how bad Detroit was until i started to travel the country! Well, i sorta knew from going down into Kentucky every summer and when i came back, i'd wondered why everyone was so pissed off!

Other memories:

Gonella's-love getting subs from them.

Shopper's World-ghetto version of K-Mart

Going into Delray by the traintracks asking for water from the rail-road guys. They'd always give you bottled water. Don't know why though.

Roaches-you couldn't escape 'em!

Pollution-nothing beats waking up in the summer to the nice smell of rotten egss. (sulfur)

Taking a bus downtown with friends and hanging out in the Renaissance Center. There is a bar at the very top which has an all-glass rotating circular floor which was neat!

The restaruant Giovanni's-it looked like a place where the mob would hang out! Try to envision a very high-scale restaruant in a very run-down neighborhood.

Oakwood Blue Jackets-neighborhood bowling alley-had a bocchi ball court in back which i didn't know what the heck it was for the longest time!

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Has anyone ever been to Boblo Island? If so, what boat did you take? (Detroit or Canadian?)

The Detroit Boblo boat was the best. Always a big dance party on the lower level on the way back home.(last boat back)

Arab town by Patton park is strange in a sense to see a bunch of middle-eastern buildings. Always did have good food.

The low-rider cruise up and down Vernor! Quite funny to see the "hombres" with their remodified cars.

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The Kronk Gym-lots of history. (boxing gym-Thomas Hearns) Neat place to see..you'd go down in the basement and see all these famous boxers. I think it'd closed for good now.

Duly's- a little dive on Vernor and Junction.(good food to eat after a night of partying) The older Sutherland did/shot a movie in the place.

Little Jo's-a bar by the Ford/Rouge complex. Richard Pryor did/shot a movie in the bar.

(a few more)..........(any other Detroiters or former Detroiters out there!?..)
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