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"So no acknowledgement then that ghettos, historically, exist almost always due to government-sanctioned [[or even government-enforced) public policy designed to segregate one group from another,...

Okay, people. It's time for a reality check. The following is a conversation I had about 41 years ago when I was a Machine Repairman at Budd. An apprentice who happened to be black [[yeah, that was...

White guy. Born [[1950) and raised near where Mack and E. Warren meet. Paternal grandparents were Volga German came to this country in 1913. They settled in Port Huron. My Dad came to Detroit in...

Oops! Hit the wrong button. The grid goes at least as far as 32 Mile Road in Richmond.

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But, what was the reason for sounding the siren? Was it for frightening the children or just monthly preventive maintenance?

I'm not sure if all the Michigan polling places use the same format for ballots. Her in Muskegon we use the "pencil-in the circles then send it through a reader" method.

That stated, how does one...

I have to think real hard to remember what I had for supper last night but a whole lot of stuff from 60+ years ago still rattles around in my head.

It seems to me that in the early and mid-fifties...

Gee, how many years ago? Before 1964, when I would have been an 8th-grader at Bethany Lutheran, I was riding my bike on Southampton from Oldtown to Farmbrook. As I was riding in the street, I got...

Consider this:

1950s. Far east-side Detroit - around the Mack and E. Warren intersect. A week day or Saturday in the summertime.

Six or seven - sometimes more - neighbor kids - all within...

I left Detroit in '80 and the Detroit area in '84 [[layoffs in the auto industry, move to Houston, move back, move to Indiana, move to the shores of Lake Michigan). There were times, when living in...

Mid to late 50s . . . trick or treat was something special at the house on the corner of Farmbrook and Chandler Park Drive. In order to receive the treat, you had to perform a trick, sing a song,...

Hey, Rochelle St. - I came across an old Bethany pictoral from the 1970 or 71 era. There is a picture of Mrs. Windemuth, just like I remember her. She is listed as Mrs. David Windemuth and an...

That square building in the Balduck photo: If we're not referring to the tennis court building, it must be the Detroit Water Department bulding. I think there was an underground water reservoir...

Could have been a Paul with a different last name. Geez, 57+ years ago . . . things are a little hazy. Connecting Paul to te family name was, indeed, a brain fart.

My dad had a '56 Plymouth Savoy - a real Plane Jane. The car in the picture has the tail end of the '56.

On family excursions to the Windsor area I always thought it so odd that Canadian Chrysler...

This is a long-shot on my part, and maybe just a brain fart. Was there a Paul Windemuth in the family mix?

I don't think she was overweight, but not skinny by any means. In 1957 - maybe 60, 63 years old.

Her speaking German AND Russian - was she an immigrant from Russia, along the Volga River near...

Bethany is - or, was until 2007 - a Lutheran School at Chatsworth and E. Outer Drive. I attended Bethany from 1955 until 1964.

The school as an organization was pretty old but the old school...

"All politics are local." - Tip O'Neal

Are there multiple causes for the downturn in Detoit? Whatever the number of causes, they are interconnected.

Years ago, if you lived around Balduck...

It seems to me that we had a Mrs. Windemuth at Bethany. She was one of the cooks who made the hot lunch program work so well. Any relation?

Silvercup!
Try and see,
How it gives you energy.
Made with milk - Eat it up,
Better bread by Silvercup!

Soupy Sales - Lunch with Soupy - 1955

I had Line-X do the job when I bought a new '03 S-10. I still have the truck. There's rust showing on the bumper and rocker panels, but the bed and lips where the Line-X was sprayed is bullet-proof.

One of our older neighbors warned the kids that to turn in a false alarm was illegal and that a fine - or maybe jail time - would be imposed for doing it.

But then he added: The fire department...

I've been away from Detroit for a lot of years and I haven't thought about this in a long while.

Growing up in the '50s, there was a fire alarm on a telephone/power pole pole at the corner of...