Pics of 10 mile prior to 696?

[woodwardboy]

Does anyone have pics of 10 mile around the Detroit zoo prior to 696 being built?

[Blueidone]

Only in my head....I grew up around there before the freeway was even thought of :-)

[DetroitPlanner]

Much of it looked a lot like it does along 10 Mile, from Southfield to Greenfield. Another close parrallel would be McNichols by Woodward [[minus the pornos and add the car dealerships!)

[Novine]

The view in 1967 and 1997.

[woodwardboy]

cool. thanks

[douglasm]

Blueidone.....
......Meet you at Amy Joy's and we can talk about the old days.....

[Detroit Galaxian]

Does anyone remember the unique brick fence that the zoo used to have fronting along 10 Mile before the freeway was built through?

[Blueidone]

Geeezzz Douglasm...I had almost forgotten Amy Joy's! Do you remember the chinese food place on the west side of Woodward just north of 10 Mile Road? My mother used to get food there every couple of weeks...they had THE BEST sweet and sour chicken...and little ribs. I can't find the same taste anywhere!

I lived in Pleasant Ridge for a couple years when I was in kindergarten and 1st grade...let's see that would be in 1954 and '55. Then moved to Berkley [[near 12 and Woodward) '56 to '58...then moved to Huntington Woods from '59 to '65. It was a great area to grow up in. Great streets for bike riding....lots of activities for kids.

I would love to live in that area again, but I guess, as they say...you can't go back.

[CLAUDE G]

I remember going to the Zoo around 1987 when I was a kid and they where still digging out the freeway

[thomprod]

Does anyone remember the unique brick fence that the zoo used to have fronting along 10 Mile before the freeway was built through?

I do. It looked like a rough stone wall. 10 Mile was a two-lane road all the way East to Woodward.
There were apartments on the south side of 10 Mile, East of Scotia. A friend of ours grew up in those apartments but was forced to move out in the late 1960s because the MDOT was buying up land for the new freeway which was planned for construction very soon. It took almost 20 years to finally agree on a plan and start digging.

[ridgeabilly]

Man, I miss the Totem Pole.

[One Shot]

I always remember going to my grandmas in Hazel Park and how the walls narrowed 696 down to two lanes to either go north or south on 75. I always wondered what was on the other side of that big bridge!

[Wingnatic]

I lived on 10 Mile in Pleasant Ridge when the State bought the land [[before the digging started) the landlord lived in Florida , got his loot from the State , I stayed in the house about a year rent free until the power was cut off and figured it was time to move lol I can't remember the name of the business across the street but it was a restaurant supply business .

[daddeeo]

That wall along the 10 mile Zoo parking lot starting falling apart and became a real eyesore. It was pretty neat at one time.
There was also a nursery just west of there [[on south side of street) that got replaced by the freeway.

[CountrySquire]

My late gramma had a 1979 picture of me standing next to the big plastic horse that was always outside the flea market across woodward from the Zoo. Not sure what happened to that, maybe Gaz would know if she reads this post.