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]

A couple of weeks ago, someone started a "Chicago" thread that was great fun, and that sounded delicious, BTW! (grin)

So all of you Michigan Freepers.... How 'bout it?

And who here remembers: "At the Zoo With Sonny Elliot"?

And who watched "Sir Graves Ghastley" for REALLY cheesy horror movies on Saturday afternoon?

[FlyVet]

If you know who "The Ghoul" is, and the Parma Patrol.

[FlyVet]

If you know who Tom Dempsey is, and what he did to ruin a Sunday afternoon.

[Ax]

Mr. X, the host of the Friday night horror movies? Boston Coolers? They were scoops of vanilla ice cream in a tall glass of Vernor's ginger ale - probably the best soft drink in the history of the planet. How did it become to be called "Boston?" Growing up there, I hit two of those exchanges: Vinewood and Vermont. The Soup Bowl game at U of D stadium for the Catholic School Championship and the Goodfellow Game at BRIGGS stadium for the City Championship? Remember U of D football BEFORE they merged with Mercy College and dropped football?

[gracex7]

I remember 'The Ghoul' who used to switch from Channel 20 to 50 and back. Late night really bad movies. I think it was done by college students. He had a rubber frog, "Froggie" that was frog-napped and the 'nappers sent in a photo of him tied to a telephone pole...hysterical at the time. The Ghoul also got Pillsbury crescent rolls and did " Wiener-wrap a frog Make him roll over, Teach an old frog, A new trick".
Vernor's is still my favorite.
And the Lions turned into a bunch of pansies when they started playing indoors. Remember those games at Tiger Stadium (my dad still calls it Briggs) in the snow and sleet....the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field had nothing on us!

[JackOfVA]

I hit on about 75%. Moved to Northern Virginia in 1976, but lived for many years Downriver and am a graduate of Wayne State University EE and Law.

You could add Jack the Bellboy to radio personalities

Jack

[Las Vegas Dave]

As a kid, (late 50's) I vacationed with my Mom at Aunt Freda's, I remember walking to the end of her street looking across the Detroit river at Belle Isle, the picnics at Belle Isle, and of course Soupy Sales with White Fang and Black Tooth, pleasant memories of Detroit!

(Now when I go to Detroit, it's to see the Ford Museum/Greenfield Village, and MGM Grand Casino.)

[FlyVet]

If you know why you feel rotten, when you hear a certain Gordon Lightfoot song.

[FlyVet]

If you know who Ernie Harwell is.

[tiamat]

"The Voice of Summer"!

Best heard on a little transistor radio, on WJR outside while doing yardwork or painting the house~

Tia

[tiamat]

If you know where Mariner's Cathedral is ......

[FlyVet]

Best heard on a little transistor radio,

Didn't matter the radio, his voice came out in stereo anyway.

"Called strike three! And he stood there, like a house, by the side of the road!"

[tiamat]

My husband LOVED The Ghoul!

[tiamat]

Greek-Town BEFORE the casinos, Trapper's Alley and the smell of bread at the Astoria Bakery!

[tiamat]

Did Aunt Freda ever take you to the Children's Zoo or to the Aquarium?

Tia

[commish]

You remember Wayne Fontes, and wish he was back!

[tiamat]

Listening to J.P. MaCarthy on AM76, WJR and PRAYING that your school would have a snow-day!

[tiamat]

If you remember when Bill Bonds wasn't drunk on the air, and if you know what happened with John Kelly and Marilyn Turner....

[FlyVet]

You remember Wayne Fontes, and wish he was back!

Ouch! Bite your tongue!

[tiamat]

Some how I missed Jack the Bellboy... what did he do?

Tia