Originally Posted by
Jahmann
Going off-topic to indulge my present enjoyment … I’ve looked at various Detroit boards and forums from time to time over a period of years. Most seemed heavily populated by westsiders, fine folks all, no doubt, but I missed references to familiar far east side streets and landmarks. I’ve joined DY now, because many posters are current or former eastsiders.
Mack Ave west of Alter was outside my range, so I’ve naught to offer the OP, but I explored widely in 1960 and ’61 by bicycle from my boyhood home on Kensington near Chandler Park Dr. Attended Finney school, where we used the auditorium and gym at Cannon Rec Center, though my younger sister was sent to Stellwagen after Finney was changed to a high school. Catholic kids in the neighborhood went to St. Matthew.
Warren Ave was our main commercial artery. I had aunts on Courville and Chatsworth, and a grandmother on Three Mile Dr at one point. Our neighborhoods weren’t known as East English Village and Morningside at the time [[or if they were, no one told me.)
Well, I just dropped in to thank you who’ve led me to replay some of those pedal-powered explorations in my head. A happy-but-sad experience, kinda like hailing from mid-century Detroit is, really.