You 're An Old Detroiter If.......

e-mail | 06 Sep 2003 | tiamat

[tiamat]

Forgive me, but You're an Old Detroiter if:

You took a "moonlight cruise" to Bob-lo with Captain Bob-lo or went to Edgewater amusement Park.

You remember the big stove that was on Jefferson Ave. at the entrance to Belle Isle.

You shopped at Hughes and Hatcher, B. Siegel, Peck and Peck, Himelhoch's,Robert Halls, Crowley's, Shoppers Fair, EJ Korvettes or Federals.

You rode the elevator at J. L. Hudson, which was "run" by an elevator operator with her white gloves on.

You remember a Winkleman's and Sanders store in your neighborhood.

You remember the "Big Snow", Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Clarabell, PhineasT. Bluster, and Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring.

You remember Twin Pines Dairy delivered milk and juice to the chute on the side of your house and Milky the Clown performed magic with the magic Words, "Twin Pines".

You remember the Good Humor man in a white uniform, ringing the bells and driving down your street.

You remember the Olympia Stadium.

You remember when Vernor's  was made  on Woodward Ave.  and a bearded troll was on the bottle.

Your mom got groceries at Great Scott, Food Fair, Wrigley's or Chatham.

Your mom saved Holden Red Stamps, S&H Green Stamps, or Gold Bell Gift Stamps and you licked the stamps and put them in those little books.

Kresge's and Woolworth's were "DIME STORES".

You had an Uncle in the furniture business (Joshua Doore).

You know who Bill Kennedy is.

You remember this telephone number:  Tyler 8-7100 (Belvedere Construction) and the slogan "We do good work".

Your phone number may have started with Tyler, Vermont, Broadway,Kenwood,Diamond, Webster, Dunkirk, Warwick, Vinwood, Townsend, University orTrinity.

You saw the Detroit Lions play football in Tiger Stadium.

You remember Black Bart and the Faygo pop song.  Or how  about "Which way did they go?  Which way did he go?  He went for Faygo, old fashion root beer".

You watched Rita Bell's Prize Movie in the mornings.

You know who Sonny Elliot is.  Do you remember Sonny using chalk on a map of Michigan?

You remember Jack LeGoff and Van Patrick.

You remember Milky the Clown, Soupy Sales, Johnny Ginger, Poopdeck Paul and Captain Jolly, Fred Wolf from the whacky wiggloo.

You visited the Wonder Bread Bakery and got to take home a mini loaf of bread.

Your address had a two-digit "zone" before there were zip codes. Detroit19, Michigan.

You remember "Get on the right track at 9 Mile and Mack, to get the best deal in town.  Roy O'Brian...it's the best deal in town".

Your house had a laundry chute and a milk chute and a coal chute.

You remember going to Detroit Edison with your mom to exchange burned out light bulbs for new ones.

[tiamat]

Willie Horton was a favorite in our house.

Tia

( who wishes the Tigers and baseball in general, would get good again! )

[tiamat]

The Freep also used to have the best Sunday Funnies!

Tia

[tiamat]

No kidding!

Had a friend who worked for an archetectual supply company by going into some REALLY bad Detroit neighborhoods to salvage things like mouldings, or stained glass windows or light fixtures, stuff like that out of abandoned houses. Some of those places had been gorgeous.

What a shame.

Tia

[ASA Vet]

I was wondering who would pick up on that.
I knew Karri wouldn't. hehe.

[dakine]

Great Newspaper, the Freep (not political) I delivered it as a kid, loved the Sports and Comics being in same section during the week, made for great reading...

[tiamat]

I used to have to fight my father for control of the sports section during the week. I wanted the funnies and the horoscope, he wanted the sports scores.

We worked it out.

Tia

[dakine]

Our family fought over that section, I use to take a real loooonnnngg time with the sports page, so as to deprive my sisters of the comics..hehehe

[HamiltonJay]

Yea, I can't think of a city that's fallen harder or farther than the big D.... Sadly unlike other cities destroyed by bad management, free trade and union largess, the D just has really nothing to fall back on... its really sad.

Like someone I know in Real Estate from Detroit says, in detroit we don't have houses for sale, the entire city's on the block.

[tiamat]

I have actually heard of people who will buy one of those nice old houses and literally have it put on a truck and moved elsewhere. You can get a small mansion for less than 10K. If you have a piece of land and don't mind the hassle of moving it, you can do really well.

Tia

[HamiltonJay]

Hmm may have to give that some thought :)

[tiamat]

Ask your Real Estate friend.

She can probably hook you up!

Tia

[19th LA Inf]

1958: My first time ever in Detroit (actually Ann Arbor). My boss found our way to the Gaiety Burlesque on Cadillac Square at midnight. Ran into a close friend from Arkansas there too. I told him I wouldn't tell anyone where we had met if he wouldn't either. (I lied).

[laker_dad]

we lived on Lahser between 15 and 14 mile rd.

Seaholm '73 here. Lived on Westbourne, across from Seaholm's parking lot. (Remember "Jack's shack"?) Did you know the Peck twins (also class of 73) They lived on Lahser too.

[lctxken]

I came in on this thread a bit late - but it is great.

I grew up in Livonia and our phone prefix was GArfield.

I remember cruisin' Plymouth Rd, cruisin' Daly's, cruisin' Big Boy's, cruisin' Telegraph, cruisin' Mich Ave, and cruisin Woodward Ave (occasionally). I remember when Daly's started charging a buck to enter the parking lot (but it was refunded if you bought something).

I remember skipping school and driving down to Toledo for 3.2

Uncle Eddie's was famous for makin' out and beer busts.

I was at the Grande Ballroom the night the Detroit Riots started in '67. The next day, we watched the smoke over Detroit from Telegraph Rd.

I remember Lee Alan and his horn (he said a "bad" on mike at Walled Lake Casino), Joel Sebastion (was it the "Swinging Spaniard"?), Club 1270, and Paul Winter (I actually had him as a prof at Wayne State - Saul Wineman I think his real name was).

I remember XYZ (WXYZ)was THE station to listen to; CK (CKLW)was occasional; and Keener (WKNR) entered the scene - all AM - course by then we had started listening to "progressive rock" (was it WABX or WRIF?) on FM.

I was "interviewed" by Sagebrush Shorty on TV - I was a cub scout at the time.

We hung out at Wonderland when it was an outdoor mall (and before we got our wheels). Sheldon Center was in our neighborhood - both Kreske's and Cunningham's had soda fountains.

Ah - it does take a person back.

By the way - what the heck happened with John Kelly and Marilyn Turner?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I spoke to a woman the other night who was telling me that her home in Detroit hasn't been appreciating.

She bought her condo 11 years ago for $13,000 and they are now selling for $14,000. I can't even fathom a $14,000 condo.

I am 4 blocks away and my home value has quadrupled in 10 years. I just kept my mouth shut.

[tiamat]

lctxken wrote:

By the way - what the heck happened with John Kelly and Marilyn Turner?

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I am glad people are enjoying this thread.

Okay, John Kelly had been an anchor on channel 7 news. Marilyn Turner had been the weather girl.

Each was married, but not to the other.

They began a very torrid, moderately public affair. ( I saw them once together in a trstaurant in Toronto...it did NOT look like a business trip! 8-0 )

anyway, they later each got divorced, married one another and then started a morning talk show called "Kelly and Company", which was a sort of precursor to thngs like "Regis and Kelly".

the wwhole thng was just amusing, especially when they were in the "skulking around" phase of it, because they were SO obvious!

I do NOT know if they are still married.

Tia

[tiamat]

LOL!

Detroit used to have a Playboy Club, too.

Tia

[HamiltonJay]

Well my only words of advice might be, generally places that don't appreciate and aren't nice areas today were bordering not nice areas 20 years ago.. so if you are less than 1 mile from a not nice area.... cash out and relocation may be something to consider... unless you are in the rare place where gentrification is occurring and improving the areas surrounding. :)

[Core_Conservative]

Thanks a lot - I remember most of these - and I really didn't need to remember how old I am - LMAO!

[RedWing9]

Remember U of D football BEFORE they merged with Mercy College and dropped football?

U-of-D dropped football WELL before their merger...

Signed, RW9 Class of '89