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Me neither - it's been over 60 years for me - and my dad [[who is 92) says they never plowed side streets during his lifetime either. Why is it such a "surprise" to people? During my whole life, I...

A lot of what we call "Detroit" slang is either regional or more widespread than we realize. While "pop" [[for soda) is often considered Detroit or Michigan, it is a common term throughout this part...

Turkeycall - if you just turned 60, you were undoubtedly at LHE at same time as me - I turned 60 last year. Graduated from there in '67. Went to Mt. Calvary for elementary school. Lived on Laing...

12468 Laing - I know who you are - we connected in one of these forums some time ago when I recognized your address. We were about 4 houses up at 12500. I believe you used to live next to...

[[turkeycall): "Bethany Lutheran for grade school, one year at Finney, next three at Lutheran High East [['68) in Harper Woods. Bethany's school closed two or three years ago, LHE about five."
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I'm a little earlier than the 70's - grew up in the area in the 50's, so I don't recall Bonnie Lo - I assume that's where the Kroger store used to be on SE corner of Kelly & Whittier. I always...

Actually, I'm looking for information on areas all over the city. I've seen the most typical web sites that get mentioned, like Cityscape Detroit and a few others. These mention all the historic or...

Like many here, I grew up in the city during the 50's & 60's, a time when outsiders didn't ask the question when I said I'm from Detroit: "Did you grow up in the city...or in the suburbs." It didn't...

I raised the same question about the name of this neighborhood a year or two ago because everything I searched came up with various names from Dexter-Linwood to Dexter-Davison [[for the area farther...

There are water taxis in New York and Baltimore. Both use them primarily to get from point A to point B around a limited area [[East River in NYC and Inner Harbor in Baltimore), but there are enough...

He did own the restaurant at City Airport. When I lived in the area, we used to go there all the time and he'd table hop and welcome the customers. We took my mom's uncle there once [[back in late...

I remember produce trucks coming down our street all summer when I was a kid. It's great to see this happening again.

And of course, someone here had to put the typical negative spin on this...

Eastwood Park closed before I can remember it, but have a number of good memories of Jefferson Beach in the 50's. After that, had to make the long trek across town to Edgewater.

Probably Goodale [[at Dickerson between Longview &Chelsea)

My wife grew up in that neighborhood during the 50's & 60's. I grew up in an adjacent area farther east. We lived there in the 70's & early 80's when I was a minister at Our Saviour on Elmdale &...