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

e-mail | 06 Sep 2003 | tiamat

[tiamat]

When the Detroit Free Press used to be GOOD!

Tia

[Walkin Man]

[Diva]

Wow I can't wait tho show my "old Detroiter" friends at church. We have lived here only since 1985 and I can just remember the "Get on the right track at 9 Mile and Mack..." but I have friends who tell me about some of the other things on your list. Thanks a bunch

[FlyVet]

You could find Vernors in the strangest places. In the early 80's I was stationed at Alamogordo, NM. Every once in a while, there was a store downtown that would get a few six-packs of Vernors in. Ran into it accidentally. Never thought to ask if the store manager was from Michigan.

[Doc Savage]

You know you never should have set foot in Detroit if you taught at Northern High in the late 60's and were shot at, beat-up, mugged, and had your car vandalized,......and you were a teacher.

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!

[FITZ]

He lived in Grand Rapids didn't he?

[mombonn]

Ooh, I remember having Cherries Jubilee at Top of the Flame!

[tiamat]

mombonn wrote:

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?

[boxerblues]

I thought The Ghoul was a Cleveland thing

[FITZ]

I've bought Vernors in El Paso --- I think it's still sold here. I'm going to have to check it out.

[tiamat]

A lot of that was due directly to Coleman Young, one of the worst poverty-pimps and race-baiters ever, and unfortunately, Mayor of Detroit for the better part of a generation.

He's dead now, and that is a good thing.

Tia

[FlyVet]

He lived in Grand Rapids didn't he?

Who?

[tiamat]

You're not the first old vet I have heard to say that they could find Vernor's where they were stationed. Ever find it in the PX?

Had a friend who would come home for leave from Korea and would go goofy for the stuff!

Tia

[FlyVet]

You actually went through all that?

[tiamat]

YES! Good Pic!

Thanks!

Tia

[FlyVet]

Ever find it in the PX?

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.

[Wondervixen]

31-6...I'm only 31, but that record has been drilled into me by Dad & Grandpa like I was there to see it.

[tiamat]

BTW, Doc,

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

[FlyVet]

I thought The Ghoul was a Cleveland thing

I gather that now. Thought he was a Detroit thing. See post #50.

[WL-law]

This will make a Detroit native cry:
http://detroityes.com/