Grosse pointe [[french) means a large land mass that projects into a body of water. The city of East Pointe is landlocked and west of the "pointe". Not a very accurate description of anything, in my opinion.
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Grosse pointe [[french) means a large land mass that projects into a body of water. The city of East Pointe is landlocked and west of the "pointe". Not a very accurate description of anything, in my opinion.
You are correct, I should have consulted a map before making that erroneous claim. In my defense I had it fixed in my mind that Eastpointe bordered Harper Woods.
Forgive the oversight.
Pickford-B brings up an interesting pointe. Why Eastpointe and not Westpointe? Does anyone recall why they chose that name? I do recall that East Detroit had had a low-grade name-change movement going on for a couple of decades before the last vote.
At least they didn't name themselves after a mall like Westland did in the mid '60s.
After East Detroit changed its name, Detroit should have then changed its name to "Pointe"
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Maybe Grosse Pointe du Sud?
Trivia time Gnome... of Macomb County's 3 cities that touch 8 Mile... only 2 border Detroit... Warren and Eastpointe. St. Clair Shores does not. But the distance between them.... Detroit doesn't go east of Kelly/north of 8 Mile... and St. Clair Shores doesn't go south of [[old) 8 Mile/ west of Beaconsfield. That would be approximately the distance between the NW and NE points of Eastland.
When is the science center going to reopen
Looks like it's re-opening right after Christmas:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...r-reopen-month
Nice present for the city!