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]

AnimalLover,

Yes, I know the secrets of the Hot fudge Ice Cream Puff at Sander's.

I do NOT know the dao of the Chocolate Buttercream Cake.

I have heard of Harson's Island.
Never been there

Do you remember when the Rouge River caught fire?

Tia

[tiamat]

Hillary's Lovely Legs,

(Woooohoooo! Guts with that name, Gal! Slainte! )

Had not heard that "Sly Fox " was no more.

What is Andiamo's like?

Tia

[tiamat]

Rough!

Don't know anyone out of there personally, but have heard the tales !

Tia

[tiamat]

Vinomori wrote:

You know that Paul (Noel) Stookey (PP&M), Tim Allen (Tim Dick), Steve Chandler (author), Leigh Taylor Young (actress) all went to Birmingham (aka Seaholm) High School.

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Alas, I am painfully aware of ALL of that.

My father taught biology and physiology at Seaholm

The mind boggles.

Tia

[tiamat]

I only ate a small ahndfull of times at the Red Fox (another Machus' restaurant) but as I recall they did indeed have a dress code and enforced it.

I LOVED the salad dressing!

Tia

[tiamat]

I knew Pasqualli's...

Tia

[tiamat]

...Devils Night was the safest night to go downtown. Do they still burn the town down up there on Oct. 30th?

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After the reign of King Coleman, the town got better, and did not burn every Devil's Night.

You HAD been able to see it from Ypsilanti when they torched it, and if the wind wa right, smell it.

Used to go, when I was young and stupid to the Alice Cooper concert in Detroit on Devil's Night, Alice being a "home-town boy".

Tia

[tiamat]

LOVE your tag-line!

Tia

[Snoopers-868th]

You know, I never thought about that. Do they still have the Thanksgiving Parade. I went once as it was a 2 hour drive. If so, who sponsors it? This is a great post. The Michigan Store in Lansing used to have a limited edition photograph (very-large) framed of the outside of the Hudson's store at Christmas. I really wanted to buy it but it was a bit pricey.

[Snoopers-868th]

It is still played once in a while. I have a copy of it and it was really good.

[Snoopers-868th]

Red Fox

[tiamat]

That used to be the "J.L. Hudson's Santa Claus Parade"

It had been wonderful. I quit watching it for a time because I could NOT stand the posturing of Coleman Young, ( who talked like Elmer Fudd) and to see him there on the stage with Santa made me weep with fury, because Coleman Young was a poverty -pimp and race baiter of the First Order.

And then he died, and that is a good thing.

I lost track of the parade after that, and I DO know that it has changed names as Hudon's ( aka Dillards or Marshal Field's) changed and sold their downtown holdings.

I dared to look last year in between basting and chopping , and there IS something, and it looks good, but I am too out of touch anymore to know who is sponsoring the parade or what it is like....

Tia

[tiamat]

Names, man, names!

Tia

[viaveritasvita]

Ahhhhh, I remember it well.

I worked @ Winkelman's.

Gus's Coney Island, Downtown

Cruisin' Gratiot Ave

My old phone number stared with Prescott

Whenever I think of Sonny Elliot (admittedly, that's not often!), I remember how he combined several aspects of the weather to come up with THE definitive weather forecast: Tomorrow, we'll have chilly and cloudy conditions. In other words, CHOUDY weather.

[viaveritasvita]

I remember staying overnight with my aunt (a million years ago). My soon-to-be uncle showed up at 2AM tapping on the bedroom window. He was all bloodied from a mini-riot at a factory where one fellow died from a head-bashing with a metal pipe. I was a child and this is all I remember of it.

Also, my first boyfriend's father was killed because his company refused to go Teamster and his truck blew up one morning when he started the engine.

[Chuzzlewit]

Yep to all. Graduated Andover 1971.

I remember The Grandi Ballroom, I saw Ten Years After there.Also remember Ted's on Woodward. I go back each year. I've lived in Birmingham, Oak Park, Orhcard Lake, Green Lake, Royal Oak. Moved to Los Angeles in 1985. I'm moving back to Detroit within 2 years.

[tiamat]

My mother shopped regularly at Winkelman's his odd-ball predictions!

Like "FROGGY: a " Chance of Frost, but Fog in the morning"!

YES!

Tia

[tiamat]

AND I just BUTCHERED that reply and I am sorry!

Trying to answer a bunch of other e-mails and get the Kid in shape for school tomorrow....

I meant to say; Tia

[tiamat]

Ooooooh!

Just noticed something!

WHICH "Gus" ?

Which Coney Island?

Michigan or National?

I could devote a whole new thread to Coney Islands.....

Tia

[viaveritasvita]

LOL! The really weird thing is that I pretty much understood it!

Not to put a damper on things (or, God forbid, appear weak on FR!), but I had tears in my eyes when I remembered cruisin' Gratiot Ave. It was all so innocent and very American; I feel for the kids who will never know the sweetness of those days -- "America, like it was between Buddy Holly and Vietnam." Is that innocence lost and gone forever?

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.

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