You may be an Old Detroiter if...

From: Dreamwell - - - - 7/28/02 11:53pm =================================================================== Most of you are probably too young to remember these....but there just may be a few out there that remember. ( I'm waaaaay to young...lol)  You took a "moonlight cruise" to Bob-Lo with Captain Bob-Lo or took the bus to Edgewater Amusement Park, or rode the coaster at Jefferson Beach. You remember cheering from one end of the tunnel to the other while going to Belle Isle.  The big stove was on Jefferson Ave at the entrance to Belle Isle. You rented bikes or rode horses or the horse drawn carriages on Belle Isle. You golfed after dark at the lighted Belle Isle par three course, played tennis(?) on the lighted courts too!  You shopped at Hughes and Hatcher, B. Siegel, Peck and Peck, Himelhoch's, Federal's, or Berlin's. The "Street Cars" ran on tracks down the center of Gratiot.  The "car barns" were at Gratiot and Harper and the turntable was called "Ca-ga- looop." You've ever played on the escalator at J. L. Hudson's downtown. You rode the elevator, which was "run" by an elevator operator. You remember when Eastland and Northland were NEW and not enclosed malls. You remember any mayors other than Young and Archer and you know who Cobo was. You remember what you were doing when you got word there was a "riot" going on. You remember a Winkleman's store! in your neighborhood.  You thought driving to Southfield, was going "out to the country." You remember the mineral bath smell of Mt. Clemens.  You remember the "Big Snow." Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Clarabell, Phineas T. Bluster, Princess Winter-fall-summer-spring. Plunk your magic twanger, froggy! "Hi ya, Hi ya, hi Ya kids!"  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 and bow tie, ringing the bells and riding down your street.  You saw Marvin Gaye sing at the Olympia Stadium or the Twenty Grand Lounge. Sock Hops at Notre Dame High School with Lee Allen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger and the Last Heard or the Rationals.  You remember Olympia Stadium.  Waterford was where your neighbors cottage was.  You remember when Vernor's was made on Woodward and the bearded troll was on the bottle.  You drank Towne Club pop (or Grilli's or Oh-So or Atlas). You bought groceries at Big Bear, Great Scott, Lipson's, Dixfield's, National or Chatham's.  Your Mom saved Holden Red Stamps, S&H Green Stamps or Gold Bell Stamps. Kresge's and Woolworth's were "DIME STORES!" Silverstein's was like going to a candy store for all of the Army and Navy surplus stuff. Your school took a bus trip to "the cider mill" and had donuts and cider after the tour. Your school took a bus trip to Kellogg's in Battle Creek.  You had an Uncle in the furniture business (Joshua Doore).  You know who Bill Kennedy is.  You shopped at Arlans, Shopper's Fair, Federals, Korvettes. You remember this telephone number: Tyler 8-7100 (Belvedere Construction) and the slogan "We do good work." Your phone number may have started with Lakeview, Tyler, Kenwood, Diamond, Trinity, Twinbrook, Melrose, Madison, Townsend, Plaza, Prescott, Olive, Walnut or Cadillac. You saw the Detroit Lions play football in Tiger Stadium or if you're a little older, Brigg's Stadium. You remember this phrase "suga is suga and salt is salt, if you didn't get off it's not my fault."  You shopped at Crowley's.  You remember Black Bart, and the Faygo pop song being sung on the Bob-Lo boat. "Which way did he go? Which way did he go?"  You watched Rita Bell's Prize Movie.  You know who Sonny Elliot is. Do you remember him using the chalk on a map of Michigan (and "Enga-dinga dinga-dine")? Or holding snakes at the Children's zoo on Belle Isle? You remember Jack LeGoff, Van Patrick, or George Perot.  You remember Soupy Sales, Johnny Ginger, The Friendly Giant, Jingles, Mr. Dressup, Poopdeck Paul and Captain Jolly.  You visited the Wonder Bread Bakery and got to take home a mini loaf of bread but, you weren't cool unless you ate Silvercup bread. You have a picture of yourself sitting on the pony that seemed to make it down everyone's street.  Your zip code was only one or two digits - Detroit 19, Michigan  You had a (Shaffer's) breadman and a (Brickley's) milkman.  We knew a Twin Pines milk man and a Jewel Coffee man and a Fuller Brush Man. You remember "Stay on the right track, to 9 Mile and Mack. Roy O'brien trucks and cars make you money back"  You remember the PURE and GULF gas stations. The "Gas Wars." Gas for seventeen cents a gallon.  Your house had a laundry chute and a milk chute, maybe even a coal chute. You remember Primo's Pizza or Carbone's Pizza, The Red Barn, Powers, Henry's, Top Hat, Herc's Beef Buffet, Big Boy's Drive-In, Tom's Tavern and Ted's 5x5, the Totem Pole or Richard's drive-in. You attended a wedding reception or a banquet at Roma Hall.  You banked at Detroit Bank & Trust or National Bank of Detroit. If you remember all of this you are definitely an OLD Detroiter! =================================================================== From: MI_Rosepetal - - - - 9/21/02 1:03pm Guess I may be an old phart -- I lived 4 blocks from Eastland -- the outside strip shopping center... and they had a "carnival" in the parking lot from time-to-time. Went to Shopper's Fair, Arlans, and Winklemans. Wasn't allowed to watch Soupy Sales because he was too silly Poop-Deck Paul and Captain Jolly were my heros at 5 pm on Channel 9 for Popeye. Listened to CKLW on am transister radio The "Sunday Drive" was out Utica Road to the "cookie factory". There was a little airport (airfield) at 14 and Ryan Road. 8 Mile Road only had two lanes each direction. Walked or took the DSR bus to school (and had to transfer buses on the way) Remember the push-button transmission in the Dodge Dart (kewl car with "fins") Remember sitting in art class when hearing about the President being shot - and the class praying for him to make it (and it was a public school). The Amboy Dukes (Ted Nugent) playing at my high school dance. The dress code in school being abolished in 12th grade Went to the Olympia to watch the Junior Red Wings followed by the regular Wings Remember my first "black" teacher -- Miss Ruby Jones -- in Junior High School typing class  (in fact, only had three blacks teachers my entire school lifetime and one was an intern) Driver's training was all on school property in their driver's training lot (complete with traffic light). School milk was in glass bottles -- 2 cents for white, 3 cents for chocolate =================================================================== From: AndyMan - - - - 9/22/02 1:26pm You know who Sonny Elliot is. Do you remember him using the chalk on a map of Michigan (and "Enga-dinga dinga-dine")? Sat on plane with him from Detroit to Rome and back form London to Detroit back in 1972, we had fun and he even signed a postcard of the plane we were on for me WHOOOHOO!!!!!!! Then in 1984 sat next him at a Tigers game, damn he even remembered me, or so he said LMAO.