Name a 'Not-so-popular' Detroit neighborhood, and why it's intriguing/special to you

[jcole]

I was more on the NW corner of 7 and Kelly while you were on the SE side, but I knew a lot of people who frequented "your" Chatham and all the stores along Morang while MY family was at the one on Kelly and Woodcrest, Chatham #1. Do you remember a manager named Shaheen? I think he ran #8. Also, I had friends from St Jude who lived on Riad also.

I wonder if we ever crossed paths? I used to work at the Morang & Kelly Chatham #8 supermarket, first as a bagger, then as a cashier for 5 years... and had several friends on Riad St.

Living in SCS now for many years, it's nice that a DeRonne Hardware has opened nearby... remembering the one on Morang so long ago.

[Gistok]

I was more on the NW corner of 7 and Kelly while you were on the SE side, but I knew a lot of people who frequented "your" Chatham and all the stores along Morang while MY family was at the one on Kelly and Woodcrest, Chatham #1. Do you remember a manager named Shaheen? I think he ran #8. Also, I had friends from St Jude who lived on Riad also.

Wow, you remember Chatham #1... the first and mini-Chatham in Harper Woods [[long ago known as Chatham Village). I went to Chatham #1 as a child with my parents a few times [[I lived near Balduck Park), but mostly we went to the Morang and Kelly Chatham #8, where my father was on friendly terms with the manager [[Mike Sommers). I worked there in the early 1970s, by then #1 was closed. The Chatham #7 on E. 8 Mile & Gratiot was the 2nd busiest Chatham store, after one downriver on Pennsylvania & ?? By the 1980s the 4 Weisberg brothers who owned Chatham stores sold out to some goon who did the same thing that is happening with Kmart/Sears... milked it dry.

The Chathams story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatha...nd%20selection.

My brother used to work for Wrigley's Supermarket next to Penney's in the 7-Mack shopping center [[today Pointe Plaza). Back in the day on the east side there were A & P, Kroger, Chatham, Wrigley's, Great Scott's and Packer supermarkets... and now we just have Kroger and [[in other locations) Meijer's.

[jcole]

Wow, you remember Chatham #1... the first and mini-Chatham in Harper Woods [[long ago known as Chatham Village). I went to Chatham #1 as a child with my parents a few times [[I lived near Balduck Park), but mostly we went to the Morang and Kelly Chatham #8, where my father was on friendly terms with the manager [[Mike Sommers). I worked there in the early 1970s, by then #1 was closed. The Chatham #7 on E. 8 Mile & Gratiot was the 2nd busiest Chatham store, after one downriver on Pennsylvania & ?? By the 1980s the 4 Weisberg brothers who owned Chatham stores sold out to some goon who did the same thing that is happening with Kmart/Sears... milked it dry.

The Chathams story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatha...nd%20selection.

My brother used to work for Wrigley's Supermarket next to Penney's in the 7-Mack shopping center [[today Pointe Plaza). Back in the day on the east side there were A & P, Kroger, Chatham, Wrigley's, Great Scott's and Packer supermarkets... and now we just have Kroger and [[in other locations) Meijer's.

Yes, that was the one on the corner of our street, or nearly, which was later a wedding hall I think. We also shopped that the one that replaced it further up Kelly. Mr Sheehan may have been at that one and not the one on Morang.
I've read that Chatham story before and got in touch with someone by email to ask them some questions and they invited me to the Chatham picnic back around 2009/2010 but I couldn't make it.
My brother worked at the A and P on 7 and Mack; it's where he learned to be a butcher and met his wife. My god mother was bookkeeper at the one on Gratiot and 6 Mile