Posted on 09/06/2003 4:02:22 AM PDT by 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.
Tia
You know you never should have set foot in Detroit if you taught at Mackenzie High and witnessed rapes, stabbings, shootings, drug deals, drinking in the halls, gang fights, a take over of the school by black terrorists, and the head of the English department who never taught a class and spent each afternoon from lunch on at the racetrack betting the ponies.
You know you never should have set foot in Detroit when you drove a pop truck for Canada Dry all over the city, beset by holdup gangs, thieves, potholes, cops asleep behind the wheel, and crooked Teamster Union officials who wore $1,000 suits, smoked cigars, and drove Union paid for Cadillacs.
You know you never should have set foot in Detroit when you were forced to breath Oxygen in the high seats at Cobo Hall, had blacks attack you with knives after a Piston's game, and thought you were driving through downtown Dresden after the War.
Gee, who could possibly forget good old Detroit! The ASS-Fault Jungle!
Ooh, I remember having Cherries Jubilee at Top of the Flame!
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Ohhhh! Lucky you!
Do you remember the Sander's Hot Fudge Ice Cream Puff?
He's dead now, and that is a good thing.
Tia
Who?
Had a friend who would come home for leave from Korea and would go goofy for the stuff!
Tia
Thanks!
Tia
Nope, never did. There was just this one store downtown that had it, once in a while. After I left NM, never saw it again, outside of MI.
I'm not blowing you off.
There isn't enough money in the world to get ME to teach in detroit!
My daughter's godfather went to Cass Tech. The place he lived was so dangerous that he carried a meat-hook to and from school and was never without a knife. He was a good Catholic boy at the time!
Even back when I was a kid, we all knew there were places you DID not go if you were white! ( If you wanted to live)
Tia
I gather that now. Thought he was a Detroit thing. See post #50.
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