The other thread got me to thinking about my own selective service experience during the Vietnam era. I took my physical in early 1972 at a building just off Gratiot near the Bat Lounge, but I don't remember the street names. They called down the low 50 numbers or so from both Grosse Pointe boards along with some others, but a lot of guys from the GP boards knew each other, mostly being in the same high school class. The draft physical was a real cattle call, with everyone trying to cheat their way out of a 1A classification, i.e sugar under the finger nails to put into the urine specimen, screwing around during the hearing test, messing up the written exam, etc. After the physical. many of us adjourned to the Bat Lounge before heading back to college.
Fortunately, there was a draft moratorium for the 1st half of the year and then the All-Volunteer Army kicked in and the draft was cancelled. Thank goodness, as I had a single digit number.