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Tell everyone you know. So far, I have not received any emails re this so I hope you all are doing this yourself direct. I have now written a PLAN for saving schools and...

Hello All!

These are a few of the kids I remember from the 1940's [[I know, I know, we're all Old As Dirt! -- but we're Still GREAT!)

Class of June 1949
Robert Mays
Margaret ??
Carol...

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Or copy this message into an email to me at DHBohan8760 and I will forward to DPS officials.

PRESERVE THIS SCHOOL!!!
I have seen the pictures of the destruction inside...

This is simply a P.S. to my original post to direct you to my two websites.

One is a writing Blog, which I hope is an avenue for networking with other writers with the goal of showcasing my...

Me 'n Rocky [[my puppy) were driving down the road the other day and I was thinking, once again, of my old neighborhood and how it was 60 years ago.

SIXTY YEARS AGO?????? AAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!
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And what about the RKO Theatre . . .

We went there often -- Almost every Friday. My mom and I would walk from Fernhill to State Fair, take the bus to Woodward, get on the street car to the...

TA-DA!

Here is the Dakota Inn Picture with Basil and his son. Taken sometime in the '70s, I think. Enjoy!

Mike --

Re the Epiphany Lutheran Church -- I have several bulletins they sent me from a few years ago. I was told "Bunky" Knudsen put up the money to build that structure; maybe you know whether...

Maybe you also had contact with my other cousin John [[Clarkie) -- him being the same vintage and probably was around Grandma's house in the '40s too. I'll contact fam to see who has pix still.
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Does anyone have pictures of the area when it was a healthy neighborhood? It looks horrid now on Google Street.

I am writing a book of Memoirs, "Yesterday, Once Upon a Time in Detroit" about my...

What was the ethnic composition of the neighborhood back then? I can't tell from the last names. Were there anchoring cultural institutions [[e.g., churches, synagogues, clubs) that everyone...

My Mom is a Lucich, from Fernhill. She and brother John are last ones left alive. I took her there 2 years ago to see the homestead. Sad. At 94, her memory is pretty much gone. We should talk. Little...

" we stayed outside until the street lights came on, everyone sat on their front porch and I loved just about every one of our neighbors. "

Next to our neighbors, the Hoffmans, was a vacant lot....

Boundary of Woodward/John R - 7 Mile/State Fair

My father lived at 492 Fernhill as a boy in the 1920s; I lived with him and my mom at 456 Fernhill as a child in the 1940s.

When I googled the...