Growing up in Detroit

[LodgeDodger]

Born at Bon Secours.

Lived at Pelkey and Seven Mile Road. One block West of Schoenherr.

[56packman]

Born at Holy Cross hospital on the East side, lived at 7 mile/Evergreen [[Braile ave.) until 1969, we moved to North East Livonia, Clarenceville schools area.

[DZanke]

I grew up near holy cross, I had many a tetanus shot and stitch there as a boy. I was born in Deaconess hospital, have no idea where it was.

[Rochelle St.]

I was born in St Josephs hospital in 1964.
I lived on Rochelle street near Queen until 1997.
I remember we had a Standard gas station at Hayes and Rochelle, Chatham supermarket, A&P, Gunninghams drugs, Civic theatre, and numerous other businesses in the Houston-Whittier/Hayes area.
My father was a brewery worker at Pfieffer, who opened an auto repair shop on Harper near Outer Drive in the early sixties.
It was called "Windy's Safety Service". It closed after my dad died in 1977.
Does anyone remember getting a car fixed there, or my dad?
His name was Richard Windemuth SR., hence the name "Windys".

[turkeycall]

I was born in St Josephs hospital in 1964.
I lived on Rochelle street near Queen until 1997.
I remember we had a Standard gas station at Hayes and Rochelle, Chatham supermarket, A&P, Gunninghams drugs, Civic theatre, and numerous other businesses in the Houston-Whittier/Hayes area.
My father was a brewery worker at Pfieffer, who opened an auto repair shop on Harper near Outer Drive in the early sixties.
It was called "Windy's Safety Service". It closed after my dad died in 1977.
Does anyone remember getting a car fixed there, or my dad?
His name was Richard Windemuth SR., hence the name "Windys".

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?

[Rochelle St.]

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?

That MAY have been my grandmother, her name was Wilhelminia, but we called her Minnie. Do you remember her first name? Also was this in the forties, fifties, or..? Is Bethany a lutheran school?

[turkeycall]

That MAY have been my grandmother, her name was Wilhelminia, but we called her Minnie. Do you remember her first name? Also was this in the forties, fifties, or..? Is Bethany a lutheran school?

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 building was built along with the Sanctuary about 1939 or 1940. Classrooms and a gymnasium were added about 1955 or 56. Mrs. Windemuth may have been at Bethany in the 40s, too.

The cooks in my early years seemed always to be very old - they all looked like someone's Grandma. The two I remember were Mrs. Windemuth and Mrs. Hammbaum.

They had a dessert that everyone liked. In a small bowl was placed a kind of hard-shell cake - a "Brown Betty?". Then they would come around to all the tables and pour a hot lemon sauce on it.

Those two must have retired from the hot lunch program around '58 or '59. A new, younger crew of women took over but the the fare tasted more institutionalized.

We kids never knew Mrs. Windemuth's first name, or the first name of many adults. If we did know their names, we never repeated it in front of them. The parents of our classmates were always Mr. and Ms. to us, even when became adults.

I'm 62. and I can't bring myself to call my old principal anything but Mr. Sheldon.

[mikefmich]

I grew up near holy cross, I had many a tetanus shot and stitch there as a boy. I was born in Deaconess hospital, have no idea where it was.

Deaconess Hosp. was on the north side of E. Jefferson, if memory serves.

Hmmm. Maybe a mile or two east of I-75?