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.

[FlyVet]

It may not be fair to ask, because I was actually in the Kazoo area. He was a singing cowboy who had a TV kids' show. We all loved him. I don't know if he was broadcast outside of SW Michigan. Ok. How bout Rem Wald and the Green Valley Jamboree? Same time period, mid-60's.

[prairie dog]

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

You remember Al Kaline, drank Carling's Black Label ("Hey, Mabel..."), and bought your gas at Speedway 79.....

[mombonn]

I am old, indeed! I also remember Christmas at the Ford Rotunda.

[FlyVet]

And his horse Thunder. I can still yodel his theme song!

There you go. Wierd thinking back that far. My Cub Scout pack went to see him perform at an old country IGA store. He turned around, pulled out his .44, and "shot" one of the sound crew (blanks, of course, but LOUD). I thought that guy was gonna have a heart attack on the spot. He almost jumped out of his shorts. LOL. He was good.

[Walkin Man]

McLain's magic of '68 won't be repeated in today's game

By Thom Loverro
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mike Mussina, by most accounts, is an ace. He has won at least 15 games eight times in his career and ranks among the top-10 active pitchers in victories.

But the Yankees right-hander never has reached 20 wins. And 30? That's a ridiculous dream for him — and everybody else in baseball. Not since Denny McLain finished 1968 with a 31-6 record to lead the Tigers to the World Series title has anyone hit the mark.

It was the first time a pitcher won 30 games since Dizzy Dean in 1934 — and based on the changes in the game, it may be the last time.

"I don't think it will ever happen again," Mussina said. "You only get about 34 starts in a year, and just by sheer luck you are going to run into somebody who pitches better than you more than three or four times over a season."

McLain, who won both the American League MVP and Cy Young in 1968, had 41 starts that season in a four-man rotation. That's almost unheard of now with teams' reliance on five-man rotations.

Found this on the web.

[mombonn]

You'll like this thread!

[Dajjal]

If you listened when Russ Gibb first deciphered the clues that "Paul is dead."

[tiamat]

Now do you remember the name of the restaurant where Jimmy Hoffa had his last lunch?

I do!

Tia

[FlyVet]

You are an old Detroiter if you remember the Tigers actually have a decent team.

That's enough! Knock it off!

[tiamat]

Those must have all been Kazoo shows...

How about "Oopsey the Clown" and that stupid little hat with the daisies on it that he wore?

Tia

[FlyVet]

Or, on your class trip in middle school you or someone you knew threw a deck chair overboard to see if you could get away with it. Some did, some didn't.

Or, if you climbed through a hatch, and sat on top of a Renaissance Center tower, and got away with it. Nevermind. :)

[tiamat]

mombonn wrote:

I am old, indeed! I also remember Christmas at the Ford Rotunda.

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They used to do a Christmas Fair at Cobo Hall, too!

I remember the giant snowman with the slide inside of it!

Tia

[nbruce]

you are all a bunch of kids:

vernor's plant was at the foot of woodward..........

ty tyson doing tiger games on radio. i saw the second game
of 1945 world series against cubs. we lost that game but
won the series..........

our telephone exchange was: HOgarth!

[Thebaddog]

Does anybody know who JohnR was?

[tiamat]

Do you remember when "The Brewery on Gratiot" closed?

And the tribute to it that "The Bruiser Band" did?

Tia

[Walkin Man]

vernor's plant was at the foot of woodward..........

Vernors! Wow, I remember that drink well.

[bullseye1911]

You remember:

Bob Talbot, Milt Wilcox, Gates Brown, Billy Sims

[FlyVet]

vernor's plant was at the foot of woodward..........

Vernors! Are they still in business? The champagne of sodas....

"Flavor aged in oak barrels".....

[tiamat]

You can still get Vernor's.

We have to take a case or two with us when we visit the in-laws who moved down South....<p. Tia

[tiamat]

LIncoln here.

LI2-6927 was the home I grew up in.

Tia