Posted on 05/07/2016 10:40:41 PM PDT by lee martell
If you’re a Detroiter, you probably also know about that corner I described at Woodward and Griswold. That was the same spot where my dad would take us later that year on Thanksgiving Day to watch the big parade.
They still do have huge parades there, preceeded by an early morning ‘Turkey Trott”, where tens of thousands of Michiganders converge on Woodward for a walk/ or race around the blocks near Comerica Stadium. The runners dress up in costumes with Xmas and Thanksgiving themes. My sisters mow live near that stadium. Of course Tiger Stadium was torn down decades ago.
Was in the middle of the country on a cross country road trip before the interstate system was built. Not sure which state it was in, so county is sort of meaningless.
Although I left Detroit about the age of 9 or 10, I remember a lot of it very well, including the parade. We were a very poor family...lived on West Fort Street. My mom gave my dad an ultimatum...get my girls out, or I will. He didn’t, she did, and raised three girls by herself in DC and later Maryland. All of my mom and dad’s relatives atill live in Detroit or its suburbs.
Spent a good chunk of the day doing that, came up empty.
Maybe before records were easily digitized for internetz searches. Some likely states did not have searchable death records. One was only digitized back "A-E".
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