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Thanks to everyone. I used to go there for the auto show before Cobo Hall opened.

Where on West 8 Mile is/was the Artillery Armory and if it's gone, when and what happened to it? Thanks

Kirk Douglas' father was a rag man. Kirk's autobiography is titled, "The Ragman's Son."

Thanks, EastsideAl - I've trying for years to remember that!!!

Anyone remember an old streetcar-style diner on either Park Ave or Cass around Sprout? Right after high school in '67 I worked at a parking lot on Bagley a block west of the Michigan Theatre and...

My grandfather worked at the Highland Park plant for a little while in the '20's but was fired because he drove a Studebaker and refused to drive a Ford. My uncle worked at the plant at 9 and Mound...

Using 7/64 and Chrome - no problems!
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Had paper routes with both News and Free Press. First real job was working a the Red Barn on Eight Mile by Ryan in Warren. First job after high school was parking cars in a parking lot down the...

There was also a Clock on the north side of 8 Mile, just west of Ryan Road.

Merry Christmas to everyone in the Detroit area from a displaced Detroiter now forced to live in Ohio!

Thanks Augustiner. I remember when I was a kid watching them when they replaced a car from the '40's with a '60 Chrysler. Can't make out the car that's there now, but thanks for helping bring back...

Excuse my question, but I don't live in MI anymore. There used to be another auto repair shop on Woodward somewhere north of 8 mile. I remember they had a car sticking out of the second story that...

Back in the late '60's Vinsetta's saved my young Navy butt! They repaired the brake line on my '59 Olds in time for me to drive back to my ship in Florida. And they did it on the spot - no...

Motor City Roller Rink was a converted theatre at 9 and Van Dyke. Met my wife there!!!!!!! Think they tore it down sometime in the '80's.

Whitehouse - The car in the movie Christine was a '58 Plymouth. The easiest way to tell a '57 from a '58 in the front is that the '57 had single headlights with smaller round parking lights inboard...

Thanks Brock 7!
I was born in Detroit Osteopathic in Highland Park. Can anyone tell me what the address was and if the building is still there?

Did I read here that Saratoga is closed? My brother was born there and I left my appendix there. I was on a ship in the North Atlantic when my daughter was born in St Joseph. I seem to remember...

I remember the building and grand opening of Atlantic Mills on Dequindre just north of 8 Mile. There was also a grocery store there, but don't remember what brand.

I've got two questions about restaurants, both slightly out of the tread subject. Back in the '60's there was a very fancy restaurant at the top of the Mich Con Gas Bldg at the foot of Woodward. It...

Sleeping police are one thing. Here in Cleveland our police are asleep even when they're awake. There are currently two patrolman under investigation because they drove right past a dead, naked...

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Over and Out!

Yes, I know there are thousands of vacant lots, but I still think its a funny coincidence that every one of those is vacant, even sites that were things like an A&P grocery store. It was just a...

Yes, every address of a house, or store, or whatever [[except the two apartment bldgs) where someone was killed is now a vacant lot.

I lived two blocks north of 8 Mile during the riots and although I moved out of state that fall, I've always been interested in the history of the riots.

I recently came across a list of those...

What also fascinated me was, if you look at the site with Bing's Bird's Eye view, you'll notice that the bldg on the corner of Buchanan & 23rd has the roof collapsed.