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Or Intercourse, as we called it. What street? What years? Ecorse High or St. Francis? Or maybe Rouge School district? Rouge and Ecorse are practically one and the same, though we had a big rivalry in...

Your basic story is correct. I'll add a little bit to it. The timeline is approximately right. River Rouge wanted the more desirable residential areas along Ironton Street southward toward Tecumseh...

MikeM, thanks for the link. As I said earlier, Ramsay's book is well worth the read. It's strangely written, quite eccentric, but very interestiung and provacative. I received the latest issue of the...

I remember seeing the whaleback, Meteor, at rest in the Rouge River by the old Rosie's Bar in Delray. Next to West Jefferson and near Dearborn Street. I was very young, but ships were of great...

See what happens when you get to be an Old Fart? Time just slips right by and all of a sudden it's 10 or 20 years later. It's no wonder you guys don't believe me. I'm in a time warp.

Billy, are you talking about the one that sat, for years, where the Bob Lo Boats now sit? Was it a car float or a tanker?

PAGING BillyBBrew! Tell us what you know about the photos of the sunken barge posted by RagTopLover and MikeM, please. Billy is much more familiar with the waterfront in recent years, and day to day,...

Thanks MikeM, you're a good problem solver. I haven't walked onto the property for quite a while because it's now posted again. After removing the National Steel security gates some years ago [[8 -...

That's an interesting photo. When was it taken? Some of these satellite pictures are way out of date. Regardless, it sure looks like the outline of a hull. I've cruised in that slip and walked by it,...

Here's the article resulting from my suggestion to Kim Heron at the Metro Times last year for inclusion in MT's, 'Best of ' issue. I also suggested the title. As usual, they got the location wrong....

Roscoe, thanks for the posts and information. Here's the aerial photo of the GLSBC and the slip where The Fitz was launched, copied from Raymond Ramsay's book you and I mentioned in our previous...

Roscoe, thanks but we've proven it already. Unless someone doubts us. Then we'll have to take a walking tour and the doubters buy burgers and beers.

The Fitz was one of the largest ships on the Great Lakes for many years and was the one of the largest ever built at GLEW. The Homer and the Jackson were considered the Fitz's sister ships, having...

You didn't sound bitchy AND you did help to solve a puzzle. That is - a puzzle[[ed) Old Fart. Thanks.

I've seen the photos MikeM posted many times. Somewhere amongst those pictures is a photo of a long ago friend of mine who was either the Chief Hull Engineer for the Fitz or some such title. He later...

That was never the 'Marsh' to us. We hung out along Marion, or the ID [[ I don't know where they came up with this?), as it was called, short for the Industrial Highway, on either side of Great Lakes...

MikeM, your third photo posted in #69 is additional support for what I said. You mentioned the spectators on the dry-dock. That's it. That's the drydock I mentioned and it's sitting in the GLSBC...

Thanks OG. Very informative video. At about 1:30 into the video, as the camera sweeps from east to north, you see two structues in the distance with a large metal, frame structure appearing to their...

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One day, I mentioned my endeavor to former Dossin Great Lakes Museum Curator John Polacsek. He mentioned the slip was the one at the Boat Club. I was stunned & queried him...

Thank you MikeM. You're very first photo link proves my point. I've seen that photo many times. It's one of the photos that put the whole thing into perspective for me over the years, in addition to...

BillyBBrew, don't worry about it even if you are disputing me. We have a nice dialogue going here. This is learning time. Even if I feel absolutely certain about some things in my life, I've learned...

Thanks Gazhekwe. That's a great story and one of the main reasons I read and post at DY.

Gnome, isn't that the best darn thing when you manage, intentionally or otherwise, to find a way to click that light bulb on. I always hope for that affect/effect. I experienced it so many times in...

But Zug Island doesn't roll off the tongue like Cleveland does. [/quote]
That probably tells the whole story right there.

Billy, on most things related to Great Lakes Shipping, etc, I'd defer to you for one reason : you live the life NOW. There are a number of reasons why I won't defer to you on this one : #1. I was...