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I knew Milt as well as his younger brother Perry, who pitched for Cooley as well but was nowhere near the pitcher Milt was. They lived on the corner of Terry and Chalfonte. Milt was a couple years...

Here in the Central Valley of California I'm paying $2.35 for premium from Costco. Regular is $2.05.
The state of California requires additives that other states don't so we are always the highest...

GPCharles
You bring up an interesting and important point. I feel that the solution lies in a restructuring of electrical production and distribution.
The future of electrical generation could...

What about "Frantic" Ernie Durham?
"I'll be back with a stack of shellac, Jack!"

Yo Daddeeo!

I used to live on the corner of Whitcomb and Lyndon so I spent a bunch of time just hangin out in front of Wards or in Cunningham's. I don't have any photos for you, but I would be...

Who cares what the OP thinks or does? It's his biz. I left the D 40 years ago but still have fond memories of it and am always happy to hear about something positive going on there.
I follow FB...

Yo Daddeeo,
I am a member of a FB page called "If You Lived or Grew Up Near Grand River and Greenfield.
There are tons of photos of that intersection as well as other nearby points of interest.
I...

Hey Daddeo,

I lived on the corner of Whitcomb and Lyndon. The area surrounding GR & G was my stomping ground from 1951 until 1962; ages 7 - 18. At that time it was all anyone could hope for in...

Frantic Ernie Durham - "I'll be back with a stack of shellac, Jack!"

And, from the early hippie days: John Sinclair

I made good money by washing the second floor windows of those apartments while i was in high school at St Marys of Redford and Cooley in the early 60's. I recall a lot of single women living alone....

The Chrysler ad had a positive impact on me. I follow this forum with the hope that, through it, I will be able to sense the moment signalling the shift from the downward spiral to the leveling-off...

"AS AGRAHIMA SEES IT"

You don't have to hit people over the head with "Detroit" to get the word out about good photos of Detroit.

You're welcome

Puuuleeeeze...

Downtown_racine said:
"Besides whats green about burning coal/garbage/ground up tires labeled "biomass" to charge up an electric car ? Makes no sense. There were electric cars 100 years ago, nobody...

It depends....

Well Mr G, you have posed the question many of us have been wondering about.

It may not be too easy to be excommunicated.

If you were female and demanded priesthood, that would do it... but no....

[originally posted by canuck]

How much more attractive do you think a unified metro would be to ex-detroiters debating in their hearts whether to come back home or not? Wouldnt that single event...

Detroitnerd I commend you and your cognitive abilities.

I was born on a farm [[yup, a farm) at 12 mile and Haggerty, raised in Northwest Detroit, educated at parochial and public schools and...

Talleman,

Thanks for posting this amazing resource.

Exsqueeze Me! ... but it _definately_ does not work in SF. It is NOT designed as an honor system, it is getting increasingly harder to ride for free [[ the MUNI Police write $100 citations for 1st...

hudkina please note this definition of MSAs via Wikipedia:

In the United States a metropolitan statistical area refers to a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its...

Oakdale pop. 15.5k and _17 miles_ away? - Patterson pop 11.6k and _17 miles_ in the opposite direction? - Turlock _15 miles away_? And _all of these seperated from Modesto by miles of orchards and...

There _IS_NO_ "metro" Modesto! Modesto is SURROUNDED BY FARMS! It is _AG_ land. My original point...
Modesto, a 29-time Tree City USA honoree,[2] is surrounded by rich farmland, lending to a...

This ranking is total BS. I grew up in Detroit and moved to San Francisco in 1974. I now live in Modesto.

The Central Valley cities of California are all agriculture based and, as such, compare...

The fact that these figures can be cause for self-congratulation speaks volumes about the level to which Detroiters have been numbed. I think [[could be wrong by a bit) the US national average for...