  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6096 Registered: 10-2003 |
* Posted on behalf of our resident westsider who doesn't own a scanner... Here's Jjaba, complete with his Wayne State Alumni cap and Detroit Tigers Sweatshirt.  Where is this? What's he looking at? Win a prize. The 1st player with a correct answer wins. jjaba is the final judge of the best answer. Thanks for playing. AIW on behalf of Jjaba | ||
Jenay Member Username: Jenay Post Number: 174 Registered: 06-2005 |
Fort Wayne? | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3429 Registered: 10-2003 |
I'll take Fort Wayne for a thousand Alex... | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 452 Registered: 12-2003 |
Final resting place of Strawberry? | ||
A_franklins_son Member Username: A_franklins_son Post Number: 62 Registered: 11-2003 |
Fort Wayne is what I'd go with too. Since it already has been answered, I'm guessing somewhere on Belle Isle. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1985 Registered: 10-2004 |
Has jjaba ever visited Holocaust sites? | ||
Bushay Member Username: Bushay Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bushay's backyard What's he looking at? A slab of Bushay's award winning Baby Backs | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2281 Registered: 02-2005 |
I thought Fort Wayne, but LY stated my second thought. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 165 Registered: 10-2006 |
I would guess that it might not be in Detroit based on the stone work. If it is in Detroit it is probably something built before the 1860s and modern architecture/materials. Fort Wayne is definitely the best guess. Nothing in Detroit is as old as that fort, at least I don't think so. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3464 Registered: 10-2003 |
Waiting for Santa Claus? Nothing in Ft. Wayne like that. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1331 Registered: 04-2005 |
Entrance to Jjaba's hut? Its a really nice hut, made of stone and brick. Seriously, somewhere on the west side? | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 876 Registered: 11-2003 |
An oncoming train? | ||
Schoolcraft Member Username: Schoolcraft Post Number: 38 Registered: 07-2005 |
Bora Bora....Come out Bin Laden If its not aforementioned(Ft Wayne,Belle Isle Horse Stables with deer hiding...) throw us a bone. Greenfield Village? | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 95 Registered: 11-2006 |
a mostly destroyed home in Brush park | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4638 Registered: 11-2003 |
Nobody even close. Hint 1. Not in Michigan. Hint 2. Industrial place. Hint 3. This is a real place. Not a prop. Hint 4. Keep trying. Big prize ahead. jjaba, on the Westside. | ||
River_rat Member Username: River_rat Post Number: 248 Registered: 02-2006 |
Jjaba, The wall on the right of the photo could be Roman but the bricks are modern (17-20th century), Is any of this a rebuild? Help us. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 189 Registered: 04-2006 |
An old factory left from Sherman's march to the sea, down south. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 510 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Keebler cookie oven? They're baked by elves, you know. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 150 Registered: 03-2006 |
Looks like a Coke oven, and if it is, then I would say Western PA. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 7259 Registered: 10-2003 |
He's preparing to jump.  | ||
1st_sgt Member Username: 1st_sgt Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006 |
Tannehill Alabama Iron smelting works? http://www.tannehill.org/ | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 220 Registered: 08-2006 |
Brilliant Itsjeff! | ||
Beadgrl Member Username: Beadgrl Post Number: 88 Registered: 07-2006 |
that was awesome, itsjeff! Is it somewhere in Ohio? Like Nelsonville or Athens? | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 105 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's Hilarious Jeff. I like it. Will I get to see Jjaba at my place sunday night. What kinda cookies do you like? | ||
Aarne_frobom Member Username: Aarne_frobom Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2005 |
I'm don't think it's a metallurgical site (charcoal iron smelter, coke oven, et c.). Looks too lightly built to be industrial, so I think it's a fireplace or oven of some kind. But not being in Detroit or even Michigan leaves the field wide open. Burnt-down southern plantation house? | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3465 Registered: 10-2003 |
"...and he huffed and he puffed, but he couldn't blow the little piggie's brick house down..." Not in Michigan?? Is it trick quiz? jjaba created it in PhotoShop? | ||
Beadgrl Member Username: Beadgrl Post Number: 89 Registered: 07-2006 |
Is it Colonial Williamsburg? | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 112 Registered: 07-2005 |
charcoal kiln - but where? Jjaba anticipating a lump in his stocking? | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1817 Registered: 10-2003 |
Fort Sumter? | ||
Schoolcraft Member Username: Schoolcraft Post Number: 39 Registered: 07-2005 |
Pompeii | ||
Milwaukee Member Username: Milwaukee Post Number: 477 Registered: 08-2006 |
Old mill in Youngstown? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 7263 Registered: 10-2003 |
Young mill in Oldstown? | ||
Kronprinz Member Username: Kronprinz Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2006 |
Old Fart in Zanesville? | ||
Milwaukee Member Username: Milwaukee Post Number: 478 Registered: 08-2006 |
what? | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3433 Registered: 10-2003 |
Boogeytime in Funkytown? | ||
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 141 Registered: 03-2005 |
My new work cube for 2007 and I asked for a window darn it. | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 817 Registered: 06-2006 |
Part of the Gingerbread House from Hansel and Gretl, what's left of the stove?? I thought I saw pudgy legs inside! | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 449 Registered: 08-2006 |
Europe? Auschwitz, Kirkau? Some other Nazi Death camp? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4639 Registered: 11-2003 |
Kemp and Milwaukee are on to something. Damn, you guys are bright. Now, seal the deal. Itjeff, you are funny. but this is a real photo as published. This is not a Holocaust site. jjaba, traveler. | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2006 |
Valley Forge, PA | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 151 Registered: 03-2006 |
Mill Creek Furnace, Youngstown OH http://www.flickr.com/photos/s tuart_spivack/258114930/ | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 223 Registered: 08-2006 |
It looks like someone may have won? But if Kenp's picture is indeed what Aiw posted, then it looks like the furnace has deteriorated a bit? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 7264 Registered: 10-2003 |
And that Jjaba took a brick as a souvenir. | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 224 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think Jjaba is holding the brick behind his back in the photo? (Message edited by stecks77 on December 22, 2006) | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 457 Registered: 12-2003 |
If this is the same area I think this is not the exact spot but a similar installation. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4643 Registered: 11-2003 |
Kemp declared winner. Amazing work. Was Kemp on the Soc. of Industrial Archeology Tour to Youngstown, Ohio with jjaba? These beehive coke ovens are lined up along a creek so the coke can be quickly cooled. The jjaba photo is probably a different actual oven from the one posted by Kemp. This is a Nationally Registered Historic site and jjaba don't steal bricks from something like this. jjaba did take some bricks from the Studebaker pile in Detroit when it burned to the ground. He then gave them to Forum mermbers at a FSN same day. Kemp, shoot jjaba your email here and jjaba will write to you. Mazel tov, congratulations. jjaba, trivia meister. Thanks for an assist from AIW in posting this photo of jjaba. (Noting that jjaba represents Detroit with WSU cap and Tigers sweats on the road.) | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 152 Registered: 03-2006 |
I know my Coke! Actually my father was from MasonTown, PA which sits between Pittsburgh and WV border. It was a coal town, and when was I was a kid I saw many a coke oven. At night in the mountains you could see the orange glow of the coke ovens for miles away. They were everywhere, it was an amazing site. I knew your pic was a coke oven, but wasnt sure where. Milwaukee guessed the town, I took it from there. He probably deserves the credit, even after his whining about JLA yesterday. kenp1232003@yahoo.com PS its kenp not kemp | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4644 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks kenp. The Cherry Valley Coke Ovens are in a small village in Columbiana County, Leetonia, Ohio, hard by Youngstown. Coal was loaded into the top hole of the ovens off of narrow gauge rail cars from nearby coal deposits. From a previous firing of coal, the coal ignited, thick black smoke would pour forth, and when good and hot, the front of the oven would be plugged up, white steam exiting up top. When hot enough, (5.5 tons of coal took 48 hrs.) the fronts were broken open and coke raked out onto the ground. It was immediately quenched and raked into RR cars in cuts between the ovens. The Cherry Valley Iron Company would use the coke to make pig and finished iron in their blast furnaces nearby. This 1865 technology was used until the Great Depression of the 1930s when these coke ovens were abandoned. The Cherry Valley Coke Oven National Register of Historic Places is listed on the Ohio Historical Society website for addl. information. jjaba, traveling man. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4645 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba declares Milwaukee a winner since he identified "Old Mill in Youngstown." Shoot jjaba your email posted here. Congratulations to Milwaukee. jjaba. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3435 Registered: 10-2003 |
I must be nice to travel like Jjaba... 'stylin can only hope to have so much time on his hands one day  | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4647 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba gets around, 67 countries, all of Canada, and our 50 states and counting. Work really hard and retire early. As you know, nothing was handed to jjaba. jjaba, Westsider. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3437 Registered: 10-2003 |
Will do... | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 450 Registered: 08-2006 |
No prize, but Jjaba's pic reminded me of this place, It's been gone for ten years now. This is in the Detroit area. Anyone recognize?  | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4648 Registered: 11-2003 |
Cambrian given permission to run his trivia contest here. Hope he gives a good prize. jjaba. | ||
Manrooter Member Username: Manrooter Post Number: 449 Registered: 11-2003 |
Yes, I remember it fondly. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 846 Registered: 12-2005 |
Itsjeff-- your picture was hilarious. How 'bout a "deck the halls with matozh balls" themed version? | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 600 Registered: 04-2006 |
Isn't that a skullface at the center of the last pic? | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 451 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Hope he gives a good prize" I do have a two year collection of pocket lint encased in a decorative lucite block for the first person to identify the pic. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1989 Registered: 10-2004 |
I could contribute to the pot wads of dog hair lying around, gathering dust. | ||
3rdworldcity Member Username: 3rdworldcity Post Number: 384 Registered: 01-2005 |
Interesting thread. There are many coke ovens situated in eastern TN and western NC, along the Appalatian Trail. Most were in very isolated areas. Their economic life wasn't very long because the owners cut down every tree for X miles to make the charcoal. Eventually the cost of hauling the wood long distances made it more economically feasible to build a new oven in a yet-to-be-logged area. Where were the environmentalists when they needed them? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 3334 Registered: 08-2004 |
Cambrian, I haven't a clue, but could it be the grounds of Eloise... or Camp Dearborn... or Warsaw Park or??? | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 452 Registered: 08-2006 |
You're close with the Eloise idea. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4649 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks Milwaukee. jjaba wrote to you. The last photo is of Eloise between the Manic-depressive ward and the cemetery. What does jjaba win? jjaba, out for a stroll. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 3353 Registered: 08-2004 |
The grounds of DeHoCo? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4652 Registered: 11-2003 |
Michigan State Fair. jjaba. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 453 Registered: 08-2006 |
DeHoCo? Not the state Fair gounds. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4653 Registered: 11-2003 |
DeHoCo is the Detroit House of Corrections on the Westside. Give them man his prize. jjaba. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 455 Registered: 08-2006 |
Where's that? This is an instition. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 457 Registered: 08-2006 |
Looks like no one could figure it out. This shot is from the infamous northville tunnels. A favorite place for our gang to hang out back in the day. The whole complex had a maze of underground steam tunnels, this is the low point where the under ground steam tunnels came above ground and crossed the rouge river. It doubled on top as a pedestrian bridge. Here's a website to learn more: http://northville-tunnels.com/ | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4663 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks. Ah yes, Northville State Hospital. jjaba. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 458 Registered: 08-2006 |
Maybury mental hospital was on 8 mile. The tunnels were at 5 and sheldon. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 622 Registered: 04-2006 |
I never did the Northville tunnels. We did have suburbanites at my school that would talk about them, but for us City kids, it was unphantomanable that we would even think of getting that far out into the country. Back in the early-80's there was not much out there except for maybe Oaisis golf and Schoolcraft College. All of the kids that lived out there would come into Detroit to hang out, it hardly ever went the other way around as this is where they went to school. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 154 Registered: 03-2006 |
I came home from work today to find my prize for co-winning the, Jjaba Holiday Trivia Contest, in the mail. Thank you so much Jjaba, you truly are a gentleman and a scholar! Happy New Year to you and all the loyal Detroit supporters of this site. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4680 Registered: 11-2003 |
KenP earned this one. Finding jjaba is always a challenge. Stay tuned for the next one, whenever jjaba finds a photo with some clues. Happy New Years to KenP and The Forum. Yes, jjaba sends awards for good scholarship. jjaba, Westsider. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 392 Registered: 01-2006 |
Searching for Jimmy Hoffa somewhere om Oakland County?? | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 473 Registered: 01-2006 |
Happy New Year & Beyond to Jjaba. Jjaba is always such a gentleman, never showing any sign of malevolence or malice. It's no wonder that everyone here respects Jjaba so much. A DY newcomer, noting your use of the third person when referring to yourself, recently asked if you were a demi-god or something. Someone else quickly popped up and said, "Yes, Jjaba is a god." A sign of the high regard in which Jjaba is held. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4682 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks Ravine. jjaba was a university professor for many years and has heard plenty of misinformation. Rather than nominate the person for "Ostrich of the Year Award", it is better to suggest another set of facts, allow the person to emote feelings, and let it be at that. If somebody wants to attack jjaba, let it be. It comes back on them. Thanks again. jjaba, Westside Old timey newsboy. |
