I remember seeing a couple years ago an entire thread discussing unusual streets such as Jacoby's Alley. I cannot find it now. Can anyone find it for me?
I remember seeing a couple years ago an entire thread discussing unusual streets such as Jacoby's Alley. I cannot find it now. Can anyone find it for me?
Last edited by mtburb; March-05-10 at 08:32 PM. Reason: Corrections.
You must be referring to raptor56's post in the Things you've seen in Detroit that make you go "ewwwww" thread.
That is not what I'm looking for.
Could it be this: http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/...tml?1185334760
You might also find this interesting: http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?t=4134 and its predecessor: http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/...tml?1232132309
I like the title of this thread. It seems like it might lead to, or generate some good reading.
Heidleberg Street would be a well known, but unusual street in Detroit.
Don't know if this is the type of thing you're thinking of, but it reminds me of a street in NW Detroit that a friend called 'Land of the Leaning Trees'. Don't remember what street[[s) it was, I think it was near the 6 Mile/Lahser area [[mid to late 70s), but the street was lined with big trees that a huge 'lean' to them, all leaning in the same direction, looked really unsual, like a special effect you'd see in a movie or something.
The sycamore trees that line Asbury Park between W. Warren and Whitlock are like that. It's an odd look.Don't know if this is the type of thing you're thinking of, but it reminds me of a street in NW Detroit that a friend called 'Land of the Leaning Trees'. Don't remember what street[[s) it was, I think it was near the 6 Mile/Lahser area [[mid to late 70s), but the street was lined with big trees that a huge 'lean' to them, all leaning in the same direction, looked really unsual, like a special effect you'd see in a movie or something.
You mean like Knock Knock street,
7 mile and Hoover area.
the legend was a yound child got runover by a car and dragged and when you drove down the street the spririt of the child would still knock on the bottom of your car.
I beleive it may have been Strasburg between 7 mile and State fair.
Barham St. on the east side from I-94 to Mack I always thought was strange. There are houses only on one side of the street, the east side of the street is the back of the houses on Beaconsfield.
I've often thought South West End Street was a weird one. Here's a Google Maps street view.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...63.07,,0,13.42
I noticed the bank there said the name of the bank and then "River Street Branch." Where is River Street?I've often thought South West End Street was a weird one. Here's a Google Maps street view.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...63.07,,0,13.42
River Street was Jefferson, or even possibly a street that was eventually closed to make room for Jefferson. Streets in that area had names different from what the names are now because there were two cities there prior to annexation into Detroit. Before that area was even Delray it was Belgrade. The name was changed to Delray at some point in time. Delray was annexed by Detroit i think around 1919?
Well, this street view is a goner now. You used to have a wonderfully weird drive down this short block, enclosed on both sides by two-story buildings. Now one of them is gone and the small street is blocked, filled in with broken bricks and collapsed wall. Sigh ...I've often thought South West End Street was a weird one. Here's a Google Maps street view.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...63.07,,0,13.42
Yes, definitely. And there was at least one short unusual street crossing Barham - Voight Street. Seems to me there was also a "Schupper" [[or something like that) street in the area but now looking at the map I can't seem to find it....
Schuper Street is a small street running east from Lakepointe to Barham. It is north of Lakepointe and Frankfort by a 1/2 block. North of that is Southampton Street.
Wow, that one is obscure - unpaved, blocked by debris and a basketball net, and with the street sign at Lakepointe swallowed up by a tree.
Ah yes - Barham St.
I think the issue with the Lakepoint - Barham strangeness was that this was at one time a boundary between Detroit and Grosse Pointe [[??). At the very least, its the dividing line between developments that were a decade or more apart.
I lived on Bedford near Munich and I recall someone saying that this was at one time not part of Detroit. I also remember hearing that the Barham and Lakepointe was a boundary with Detroit on the west side and something else on the east.
Anyone have access to the history of this area that might yield clues???
I would find that very hard to believe; as far as I know, except for part of Grosse Pointe Woods north of Moross, Mack [[beyond which Barham does not go) has always constituted the dividing line between Grosse Pointe and Detroit.
Wow! I bet those little narrow streets are OLD! Probably dating from the ribbon farms or something. Just wide enough for a horse pulling a wagon. You can actually drive down them in Google maps too.
Someone could put a link to the brick/cobble stone street thread too, because those are unusual.
You could consider the old ribbon farm streets, the ones laid out at 90 degrees from the Detroit River, where they hit the grid streets to be unusual. You get all these little pie slice bits of land. I see it as I drive north on Conant towards 8 mile.
Or places where Judge Woodward's spoke streets hit the grid in downtown are kind of unusual.
Another source of unsual streets might be streets named after people who had unusual histories. I read that Judge Woodward died an alcoholic and was buried in an unmarked grave in Florida [[going on old memory here). I know that's stretching it because really you want physically unusual streets.
the existing sections of Fourth Street are all highly unusual. Chopped up by both the larger 'river' city grid & the Lodge, Ford, and Chrysler Freeways, Fourth Street displays an eclectic mix of Detroit architecture and gives us a peek into Detroit's former, more dense & urban landscape, and also shows how the freeway system divided formerly contiguous urban areas & communities.
Fourth at Holden. This was created when the I-94/Lodge Freeway interchange was built -- it was one of the first urban freeway interchanges built in the world, and this slice of Fourth Street narrowly avoided demolition. Today it is a thriving artist community, sheltered from the surrounding area by vast parking lots & obscured by trees.
http://tinyurl.com/yceywu9
Fourth at Willis. South of I-94 and north of MLK, the remnants of Fourth Street continue, but only between Calumet & Selden. Although this area suffered urban abandonment since the 1950s, today it remains as a small & well-kept apartment and housing district. Like Fourth Street north of I-94, this area is also somewhat [[though less) sheltered from the surrounding area by the Lodge Freeway & the vacant expanses along 4-lane wide Third Ave.
http://tinyurl.com/ycuxzt9
Fourth at Peterboro. At the site of the former Jeffries East housing project, Fourth Street is a shell of its former self. Four houses remain on the three blocks between MLK & Temple. Take a good 360 view of this intersection in Street View -- the house on the NE corner of Peterboro & Fourth is quite interesting and old. Then click the arrow to go East down Peterboro to "time warp". The imagery is older--before the housing projects were demolished.
http://tinyurl.com/yjyxsqo
Fourth at Henry. This one also makes a great '360' and is my favorite section of Fourth Street and one of my favorite streets in the city. Like Fourth at I-94, this section of Fourth Street was abbreviated by the construction of the Lodge Freeway & I-75 interchange, another early urban freeway interchange. Diagonally crisscrossing a length of Henry St., and wedged between Grand River and The Lodge/I-75, this "district" is the most urban section of Fourth Street. Though small, its impressive older architecture and angular corners & alleys make for a very interesting intersection, visually. I could see this being quite the loft/bar district in some future, gentrified Detroit. Today, a pharmaceutical company & gallery occupy the street.
http://tinyurl.com/yeahrux
One can imagine what Fourth Street once looked like as it continued to the river. However, today, all the remaining sections of Fourth Street south of I-75 were demolished for the Lodge freeway's downtown spur, Casino development, and the Riverfront Towers development.
Last edited by Gsgeorge; March-08-10 at 09:03 PM.
I saw an old view of Fourth Street from the days when it was a long, uninterrupted thoroughfare. Quite amazing, it actually looked similar to those long residential streets in the Pointes. Boy, the sure chopped the shit out of that street, with freeways, interchanges, crummy "parks" and stuff. To think that the city expended so much effort during the hectic days of building up just to get decent crosstown roads only to screw up all these nice north-south streets. Sigh ...
I always found Perry Street, a seemingly random brick-paved road in nestled in the urban farms of North Corktown, to be unusual.
http://tinyurl.com/ycj48z5
I found this street one night when trying to get a picture of a billboard on 94.
http://tinyurl.com/yet4tly
I always liked the little triangle formed at the corner where Guilford and Oldtown end at each other near Lanark [[this is in the area almost immediately northwest of I-94 and Cadieux).
http://www.vpike.com/?place=oldtown+...lford%2C+48224
Once at that link you kind of have to move yourself around within the picture to see it, but there's another little street that connects Oldtown and Guilford sort of like the crossbar of a letter "A". Up until exactly two minutes ago I thought that that street was nameless - it's never had a street sign identifying it - but according to vpike.com it's now called "Oldtown Ct."
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