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

e-mail | 06 Sep 2003 | tiamat

[FlyVet]

Go back before Paul Carey, and Ernie would say, "And here's....Ray Lane!" He was ok too.

[Dajjal]

You Know You're From Detroit If...

Great links!

[tiamat]

"The Big Eight! "

They were a Canadian station out of Windsor.

Do you remember the "Tribute to the Americans" that one of thier newsanchors did? he did it towards the end of vietnam and it was really great, how he stood up for us......

Tia

[tiamat]

Thanks!

[Walkin Man]

I loved Ernie Harwell and Tiger baseball when I was younger. He was great.

[Always Right]

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

[tiamat]

Those ARE great links!

Thanks!

;-)

Tia

[Dajjal]

If you can do the "Sgt. Sacto Salute."

[tiamat]

Always Right wrote:

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

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they used to be great!

I got to see one of the World Series Games against the St Louis Cardinals when i was in Second Grade. a few nights later, they won the series.

Dad packed us into the car, and we drove down Woodward honking our horn and yelling out the windows....lots of noise, but it was SAFE.... not like today whee people would be looting and burning things up!

Tia

[FlyVet]

Do you remember Ghoulardi and Big Chuck and Hoolihan? Or shopping at Giant Tiger?

No. I only remember The Ghoul because I had cousins in Port Huron, and they could get a Detroit TV channel, and when we visited them, that was our big weekend night deal, watching The Ghoul's creature features. I thought he was out of Detroit. Geez, is that ever a long time ago.

[Walkin Man]

I sure do remember the "Tribute to the Americans" and yeah CKLW was out of Canada wasn't it? lol But I always associated it with Motown – Dee-troit because of all homegrown sweet soul music they played.

[Always Right]

I got to see one of the World Series Games against the St Louis Cardinals when i was in Second Grade. a few nights later, they won the series.

Yeah, but for the last 20 years they have been the worst team in baseball with no real competition.

[FlyVet]

I'll bet NOBODY remembers who Buck Barry is.

[PGalt]

My sister and I named our pet kitten Morgus. Thanks for the link.

[tiamat]

Always Right wrote:

Yeah, but for the last 20 years they have been the worst team in baseball with no real competition.

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I know it.

Makes me mad, too!

And what's this "Comerica Park" stuff?

Tia

[Dajjal]

If you remember when Northland and Eastland were open air shopping centers -- and sat on the Northland hippopotamus.

[gracex7]

No, 'perfect' was Ernie and Ray Lane, who was pre-Paul. It took me a few years to accept Mr. Carey.
When the Tigers let Ernie go a few years back, I felt like a knife went through me. I heard CBS baseball had picked him up, and I searched GR to find out if any of our radio stations carried it, but with no luck. So, one afternoon while I was asleep (I worked the night shift and weekends), my clock radio goes off and as I'm in dreamland, I swear I hear Ernie and sure enough, there he was on the radio. I can't even explain how happy I was. I've always thought that if I was ever in a coma, he'd be the voice to bring me out of it!
If we're going to try to bring Joe Schmidt back, we may as well try for Alex Karras...at least he's still alive!
Remember Willie throwing out Lou Brock in the series? Remember the game where Mickey Lolich hit a home-run? The look on his face was priceless.
I'm still arguing with a friend over McLain's '68 record. I think it was 31-3 (not counting any post season or All-Star), but he thinks it was 31-6. Can anyone help me on this one?
Also remember when Jimmy Hoffa went out for that really long lunch... (still think he's a part of the Renaissance!)

[tiamat]

I'll bite.

Who is Buck Barry?

Tia

[gracex7]

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

[tiamat]

Wonder what we would have to do to get a copy of that?

It would be appropriate today!

Tia