junk4dummies
Banned
I know it is in Dearborn. On Southfield I 39. Just generalizing. I know all the cities from Beverly Hills out to Orachard Lake and back over to all the Gorsse Points. How do like all the old homes in Indian Village, University Distric, Palmer woods, Boston/ Edison, Sherwood, North Rosedale, Rosdale/ Grandmont?
One more think I can not forget. I am sitting her looking at an old glass Vernors bottle. The factory moved into the new plant way back somewhere in the early 50's. So long I can't remeber. The front was glass and you could watch all the bottle lope aorund and come down into the packing crates.
They had a soda fountian and you could get a big glass of Vernors for 5 Cents. You could get it hot, cold, with cream or Chocolate. WOW That was quite a place in its day . I think they even had it with icecream which is fantastic.
Don't forget the Frank Loyd Write house out on 7 mile Road and the one out at Walled Lake. The one out at the lake belonged to one of my fathers friends. What a home.
I will get the books recomended and read them.
I bet I have a collection of something that most of you Detroiters don't have. Way back when, bicycles had lisence plates. I have mine. With E-bay you can find anything. I now have 9 of them.
I spent half of my child hood at Ford Hospital up on the 17th floor.
I delivered inner office mail on West Grand Blvd for Jam Handy advertisment corp. I got to go to the Fisher and GM buildings. My little work space was just down the street. We had to ware a white hirt and tie to deliver the mail. That is another stroy for a nother time. I was there when the raids were made in 1964. I would go with my black friend and we would get patted down and then let in the back stairs and would play craps and 21 in a Blind Pig. We would then drive down river to pick up $2 hookers and rent a room by the hour.
That is another chapter in a long book. Uncle Sam gave me a 4F because I have asthma.
My father was the principle at North Western the summer of the Roits. The Nationl Guard would come and pick him up at the house and take him town to the Bulivard and Grand River to unlock the school gym so the service men could use the showers. Yes, even back then they killed a teacher. When they raded the lockersthey found guns and knives. One of my child hood frineds taught middle school while going to Wane St getting his Law degree. The boys wold flip coins in middle school to see which girl they would get for the night. That was in the late 60'
s. It was bad way back when.
You can not make this stuff up. It reall was the way things were.
Good or Bad Detroit has a hidden history. Much of North West Detroit had to be drained becaue it was a swamp. The elm Trees made each street look like a Gothic Cathederal. What a place in another time.
