How about doing a "Fabulous Ruins of Downriver Tour?"

[Downriver Gal]

Does anyone remember the Pandora movie theater on Telegraph in Taylor, next to the old Red Barn restaurant? It was an extremely shabby 2nd run theater in the mid-80s. I think it's now a medical center.

[Danny]

If you all want to see more Downriver Ruins, go to Downtown Lincoln Park.

[lpg]

If you all want to see more Downriver Ruins, go to Downtown Lincoln Park.

I remember shopping with my mom in the early 50's in downtown Lincoln Park. A lot of nice stores to choose from, Fishers, Sims, Truans, Grinnells, Halligans etc. The median parking helped keep it going.

[thewitz]

Does anyone remember the Pandora movie theater on Telegraph in Taylor, next to the old Red Barn restaurant? It was an extremely shabby 2nd run theater in the mid-80s. I think it's now a medical center.

I think this was Originally the Jerry Lewis Theater wasn't it?

[hhockey]

I do believe that the Wal Mart is going in at Southfield and Dix, not Eureka and Dix.

[Danny]

I do believe that the Wal Mart is going in at Southfield and Dix, not Eureka and Dix.

No, its going to Dix and Eureka. Folks in Lincoln Park and Allen Park don't want an EVIL Wal-Mart in their area.

[lalynch]

I do believe that the Wal Mart is going in at Southfield and Dix, not Eureka and Dix.

Nope, its coming to Eureka and Dix [[Southgate) not Southfield and Dix [[Lincoln Park) and the News Herald announced it last October.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/article...9532496445.txt

[hhockey]

Sorry i was misinformed. The Dix shopping center is nearly empty and that leases would not be renewed.. They apparently wrongly told me that Wal mart decision was reconsidered.

[hudkina]

The sad thing is that while the rest of the commercial space at that intersection is virtually 100% occupied, once the Walmart is built I guarantee those businesses will begin dropping like flies. We'll go from having one vacant big box strip mall surrounded by several dozen small and medium-sized viable businesses to one massive congestion-inducing big box store surrounded by dozens of empty retail outlets...

[mtburb]

The sad thing is that while the rest of the commercial space at that intersection is virtually 100% occupied, once the Walmart is built I guarantee those businesses will begin dropping like flies. We'll go from having one vacant big box strip mall surrounded by several dozen small and medium-sized viable businesses to one massive congestion-inducing big box store surrounded by dozens of empty retail outlets...

Another disadvantage, the community will go from countless occupied homes to a ghost town with no occupied buildings except the Walmart.

[lalynch]

Sorry i was misinformed. The Dix shopping center is nearly empty and that leases would not be renewed.. They apparently wrongly told me that Wal mart decision was reconsidered.

It was stated at a Lincoln Park city council meeting in 2009 that the shopping center went into bankruptcy and that the bank was anxious to fill those spaces. Someone on the city council had talked to someone affiliated with the shopping center. However, I did hear from someone, earlier in the year, wanting to lease in the shopping center that the broker told them that the owners were not letting him fill the spaces because they were anticipating Wal-Mart wanting to come in there. This person was unaware of Wal-Mart coming to Southgate or the News Herald story announcing it.

[lpg]

Another sad part of Lincoln Park is the Lincoln Park Plaza. The parking lot looks like a war was fought in it. Potholes that look like bomb craters. I watched it being built. The ACO store was a C.F. Smith grocery in the beginning. I believe the old CVS store was a Packers grocery. It opened around 1955. Another great selection of stores. Lerners, Winklemans, Saunders, Good Housekeeping Shops, Kresge, Shifrin Jewelers, Cunningham-Kinsels Drug store, People's Outfitting [[Later Hudson's Budget Store), etc. A side note to the building of the LP Plaza. While under construction, the building contractor asked my mother if he could use our water to mix mortar, plaster etc. When the water bill arrived, she took it to the construction trailer and asked for the money. He told her not to bother him. She walked back to our house, shut the water off and threw the hose over the fence. He came running over screaming he needed the water and tried to come in our yard. Mom told him she would call the cops if he set foot on our property. He left and returned with the money for the water bill. After that the bill was paid right away.

[jackie5275]

Well Chirelli's closed market in Lincoln Park may be a ruin. I saw on another thread that Clemente's is due to close this summer. That can be another too if it does indeed close.

[lpg]

Well Chirelli's closed market in Lincoln Park may be a ruin. I saw on another thread that Clemente's is due to close this summer. That can be another too if it does indeed close.

I heard from a friend that works for O'Reilly [[Murray's) Auto Parts that they purchased Clemente's property and will put up a warehouse there. Chiarelli's was a sad story. I purchased my meats there for a long time. To see the place slowly die was bad. The front overhang is now starting to fall apart.

[The Dude]

Another sad part of Lincoln Park is the Lincoln Park Plaza. The parking lot looks like a war was fought in it. Potholes that look like bomb craters. I watched it being built. The ACO store was a C.F. Smith grocery in the beginning. I believe the old CVS store was a Packers grocery. It opened around 1955. Another great selection of stores. Lerners, Winklemans, Saunders, Good Housekeeping Shops, Kresge, Shifrin Jewelers, Cunningham-Kinsels Drug store, People's Outfitting [[Later Hudson's Budget Store), etc. A side note to the building of the LP Plaza. While under construction, the building contractor asked my mother if he could use our water to mix mortar, plaster etc. When the water bill arrived, she took it to the construction trailer and asked for the money. He told her not to bother him. She walked back to our house, shut the water off and threw the hose over the fence. He came running over screaming he needed the water and tried to come in our yard. Mom told him she would call the cops if he set foot on our property. He left and returned with the money for the water bill. After that the bill was paid right away.

lpg, i believe thesupermarket you are talking about was Big Bear first, then Wrigley b4 Packer. I think Great Scott was the last grocery store in there b4 it became Arbor-CVS.

[mtburb]

lpg, i believe thesupermarket you are talking about was Big Bear first, then Wrigley b4 Packer. I think Great Scott was the last grocery store in there b4 it became Arbor-CVS.

I think this is how it went:

It began as Big Bear,
then became Wrigley,
then became Packer,
then became Great Scott,
then became Arbor Drugs,
then became CVS.

[The Dude]

I think this is how it went:

It began as Big Bear,
then became Wrigley,
then became Packer,
then became Great Scott,
then became Arbor Drugs,
then became CVS.

Only difference is that ALL Arbors became CVS.

[The Dude]

Only difference is that ALL Arbors became CVS.

And on the northside of LPPLaza,

National
Chatham
A.C.E.
ACO
Please correct me if I am wrong.

[mtburb]

Only difference is that ALL Arbors became CVS.

Including this one? http://detroityes.com/nhood/21newcenarbordrug.htm

[thewitz]

Then there is also the old Kmart on Telegraph over in Flat Rock that is sitting empty.

[psubliminal]

I lived in Ecorse from 1985-89. I worked at Calder Bros. Dairy making ice cream, and had a Freep motor route which covered much of the city, part of River Rouge and the part of Detroit they called "Dogleg." I used to walk down to eat at Taco Especial all the time [[I lived on 9th off Southfield).

Around 1999-2001 I lived in Lincoln Park, on Dix a couple blocks from Zukin's.

[lpg]

My dad worked at McLouth Steel in Trenton from 1955-75. That place qualifies as ruins.

[thewitz]

My dad worked at McLouth Steel in Trenton from 1955-75. That place qualifies as ruins.

Sorry I missed your post, it was on the 2nd page, which I did not see.

[lpg]

Sorry I missed your post, it was on the 2nd page, which I did not see.

No problem. The steel plant on the west side of Jefferson south of Vreeland Road in Gibralter was also McLouth Steel. It was the pickling plant. The hospital in Trenton on Jefferson was Riverside Hospital. It is supposed to be torn down at some point.

[thewitz]

And don't forget about the lovely abandoned steel mills in Trenton along W. Jefferson on the East side of the street [[riverside) and once you get past, I think it's Van Horn there is one that is abandoned on the West side of Jefferson, almost to Gibralter. Not to mention Seaway Hospital in Trenton on W. Jefferson.