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Once upon a time Greyhound ran buses from downtown to Metro Airport. These Greyhound Airport buses picked up at the hotels. The parking options were far less back then so these buses served various...

Jefferson Club Recreation...bowling alley was upstairs and it was in the block between Lakeview and Eastlawn. Chene Trombly never had automatic pinsetters because of building layout and the alley...

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I'll be darned if I can recall a bowling alley at that location. But jeez, we're talking over a half century ago. I guess I'm allowed to forget details. But I sure remember making my...

Hi Ray,

The story always told was Gordie and Colleen met just up the street from Olympia at Lucky Strike on Grand River near the Blvd. Were you ever in there or Grand Central Recreation [[14th &...

I believe he was a transfer from Austin after they closed. Although when he was growing up he mentioned in an interview the family lived on Hamburg, which depending where they were would have made...

Interesting story since Lou Gehrig was a teetotaler. I guess Mickey Mantle, Casey Stengal, etc. were all lying about the deal with hotel bars and it being off limits for the players. I suppose the...

If the team was staying there the bar at the Sheraton Cadillac was off limits by rule of most teams.

Same thing for the hockey teams that stayed at the Leland or the Yankees during the years...

The old Lindell Bar was on the first floor of the old Lindell Hotel at the corner of Cass & Bagley. The old Lindell Bar not to be confused with the Lindell A.C. probably had a worse reputation than...

Well, it was very likely the players were in the Motor Bar on the down low since with most teams back then that was an automatic fine. Lindell A.C. became so popular largely because of that team...

Formerly the Burke Pontiac location.

Burke Pontiac was in there for awhile. Down at Gratiot and Findlay-Racine was a Ford Dealership. Mike Dorian took that over from Lewis Brown around 1964.

A Lincoln-Mercury Dealership was also located for awhile at Gratiot and Gunston in the building that presently houses the Gentle Dental place. Frank Guns and Bart were a couple of the names. By the...

Where did I claim that the two were not operating concurrently for a certain period of time? A.H. Peters had the Gratiot location and still open Mack location operating together for years before...

Calcaterra on E. Grand Blvd. was operating until at least early 1962. A close friend of the family back then had a funeral there in December of 1961. It was House of Diggs by 1963 and that year the...

I thought that 1970 license plate with the beige color background is terrible at night when trying to get a plate number. I've always wondered if more hit and run drivers were able to get away that...

Actually, a common complaint I've heard about Henry Ford Museum among visitors from outside of town is that it is lacking in Ford automobiles. A number of tourists in addition to what they heard is...

The National Bank of Detroit is the entity that I will always associate that building with more than anything else since NBD had it for over 35 years. I guess 1001 Woodward is a decent alternative...

Well, that's Detroit not Highland Park. But yes, Pepsi moved to John R. and State Fair area after Dossin sold the operation. Coca-Cola left the Gratiot location before Pepsi, and Pepsi took over that...

Back in those days when Dossin Food Products bottled and distributed Pepsi they were on Gratiot next door to Coca-Cola.

During your temporary assignment to the Vice Bureau, I take it you were based downtown at the first precinct? What was the parking situation like there back then? I've heard at times it was problem...

Back then, did the businesses that were along Michigan Avenue, Grand River, W. Vernor [[especially restaurants) keep their lights on all night?

I know you mentioned before about having the...

Interesting that it was Henry Heading. It seemed like he had some rather interesting quotes in the newspapers. Do you think the demolition of the old Michigan Avenue skid row in the early 60's had...

Hi Ray,

Enjoyed the story as always. A couple of questions if I may. Back then, how many years of seniority in DPD as a uniform typically did it take before you were not likely assigned a beat to...

Ray,

The day you were hired as a cadet did that automatically provide a spot in the DPD Academy? If I remember correctly you graduated the academy in 1959. Also, did those years as a cadet count...

Yesterday was just another day at the Penobscot.

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