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.
( I don't know the other guy)
I remember all of that , too! our folks sounds great!
When I was about six, my mom locked herself out of the house. ( we had walked to the drugstore on Woodwards) So she made me climb throught the milk-chute and go around to open the door! Tight fit even for a six year old! LOL!
Tia
Twenty years ago (1984) the Tigers were world champions.
(lived by it in the early 90's)
that place stunk up everything around us
I will NEVER forget his drag show as Tillie, singing "Rats in my Room!"
What's even more scary is my grandmother heard it once and sang it as she cleaned. LOL!
I still have my gold dread card. The paper one disintegrated in the wash.
While cleaning out an old wallet last year, found my gold DREAD card in it.
My wife has never been to Detroit and just can't relate so this is a good little web page. I really enjoy it! Haven't been back in over ten years hope to someday, just for the food!!!!
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but I watched an amazing documentary last night on PBS about Hank Greenberg...apparently the first jewish player in the Major leagues in the late 30's. I'm sorry to say thats the first i've ever heard of him. He came back after serving 4 years in WW2 and picked up right where he'd left. An amazing story and an amazing man.
I d not recall that being mentioned...
LOL!
I am just being amazed by "The Little Thread That Could" !
Every once in a while, I get a ping and it is SUCH a nice surprise!
>>> To: FlyVet
>>If you know who "The Ghoul" is, and the Parma Patrol. <<
WAIT!!
That's Cleveland.
It's funny, I lived in Cleveland until 1996. I had someone send me one of these for Detroit. <<<
"The Ghoul" is BOTH -- he's Ron Sweed, native of Cleveland, who went to Channel 50 (WKBD) in Detroit to host horror shows as "The Ghoul," competition to "Sir Graves Ghastly" in the early 1970s. He later took the show to Cleveland, where I've heard he's still on ... ?
Hi,
Yeah, fortunately most people don't remeember that certain Gordon Lightfoot song, "Black July". I personally love Gord's music; but that one song is particularly ominous and dark, for obvious reasons. I was 12 in 1967; it was a very scary time. Mr. Lightfoot managed to put to music what was a horrible, gut-wrenching period for all of us Detroiters.
Yeah, that song still makes me feel rotten, for all of us who were there in that awful summer of '67; the "summer of love", elsewhere in our country.
Thankfully, we have moved on- hopefully, that mentality will continue.
I thought the coolest thing Sir Graves Ghastly did was when he would draw a "face" on his chin, they would film his head upside-down and he would lip-synch Beatles songs.
That was really out there !
I'm 51 now, but there must be a couple of people who remember Sgt. Sacto and his crew (I can't remember their names- middle age- lol) on channel 50 in the afternoons. When his crew would acknowledge him, they would make a fist, extend their right arm out straight and pull their fist into their chest 3 times, thereby doing a "triple pumper". My buddies and I would do that and it cracked us up !
Milky the Clown still creeps me out...
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