Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3681 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:59 pm: | |
Sad pictures from today and as mentioned on another thread. I believe the Woodbridge [aka for a minute as the Stinky Rose] once held the 1st post prohibition license in Michigan.
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Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 4804 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:02 pm: | |
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Terryh Member Username: Terryh
Post Number: 154 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:07 pm: | |
Was it located in Rivertown? |
Buddyinrichmond Member Username: Buddyinrichmond
Post Number: 125 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:10 pm: | |
Where in Woodbridge was/is this place? |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 301 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:13 pm: | |
not in woodbridge. Near Chene Park |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 521 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:14 pm: | |
That's gonna take a bit of work to rebuild... |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 522 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:15 pm: | |
Any word on the cause? |
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave
Post Number: 443 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:24 pm: | |
Damn one of the few bars left over from when rivertown was booming before the casinos wrecked the whole area .. I heard that bars used to be a speakeasy but I`m not sure how true those rumors were |
Schoolcraft Member Username: Schoolcraft
Post Number: 99 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
Thanx for the pics Lowell. Bittersweet though for many I am sure.Not that anyone cares but for me damn 1st date with wife there 22 friggin years ago.Also, saw bball game that day with Tigers in 84(George Anderson thrown out in 6th? inning)I want all of Rivertown to re-emerge and it will!!!Its a gold mine waitin to happen. |
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 13 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 4:27 pm: | |
Thats a shame, what a cool place that was. Used to go there a few years back when they did dinner/bus to the Joe deals during the hockey season. It was definitely old inside.. Can't imagine why they changed the name with what history the "Woodbridge" name had. Hopefully it was insured and it will be rebuilt. |
Dougw Member Username: Dougw
Post Number: 1560 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 7:56 pm: | |
When Channel 4 reported the story on Friday night, they mentioned that arson was the suspected cause. It looks like a goner at this point. |
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 203 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:07 pm: | |
I was a waitress at the Woodbridge in, like, 1990. What great memories I have of the wooden floor, old phone booth, great bar, etc. Workers coming in for lunch in either suits or hardhats. People going to the games at night. Damn fun working there. I loved the hamburgers there. Dougw, I sure hope you are wrong and someone with vision takes the remaining walls and makes the Woodbridge II. |
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 224 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:53 pm: | |
Lowell, I must have missed you by a few hours. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/94139.html?1171844441 |
Ventura67 Member Username: Ventura67
Post Number: 107 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 9:36 pm: | |
That was our band's favorite place to play when we were working in the '90s. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1007 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 10:26 pm: | |
My friend Henry played the piano there in the late 70's and early 80's, his son Mike took over that position, then management decided (like the rest of the world) that "if ain't coming out of guitars, it ain't music"--a shift in the character of the place. We held my Dad's retirement party there 21 years ago. Send Archer the bill for the clean-up. |
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 1195 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 9:44 am: | |
How damn sad. Rivertown was a genuinely cool place to be, it was heartbreaking to see the bars fall one by one. Packman is right, thanks a lot Dennis. |
Walterwaves Member Username: Walterwaves
Post Number: 95 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:12 am: | |
probably done for the insurance . Its a shame that people have to resort to this in order to keep from completely going under. Im sure Rivertown will have a rebirth sometime in the near future. |
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 274 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 4:17 pm: | |
I believe the Woodbridge [aka for a minute as the Stinky Rose] once held the 1st post prohibition license in Michigan. I thought Pinky's Boulevard Club, at E. Jefferson at the Belle Isle bridge, had the first license after Prohibition. The club is now a Starbucks. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 145 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 5:04 pm: | |
Nobody is rebuilding that place. Look at it. Rebuilding it is pointless. It'd be cheaper to start over. |
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 226 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 7:14 pm: | |
There was no saving the Soup Kitchen, I can't see this one getting saved either. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 532 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 8:01 pm: | |
"Send Archer the bill for the clean-up." Actually send Archer the bill to rebuild Rivertown... |
Dds Member Username: Dds
Post Number: 129 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 9:50 pm: | |
I'll cross post this from the other thread: I'm pretty sure that this is the second time the Woodbridge has burned. The first time I remember was when it reopened after closing the first time. I went in and they had Bud and Bud Light on tap, and maybe 4 bottles of liquor behind the bar. They looked to be doing more construction on the back and upstairs. When I asked the friend who I went with if he wanted to go back about 3 weeks later to see if things improved, he said the word around Rivertown (he worked at the Bastille) was that it burned. That was never confirmed, but I'm assuming there may be someone on this board that heard differently, or not. |
Bvos Member Username: Bvos
Post Number: 2110 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:49 pm: | |
Another piece of Detroit history up in flames. http://www.metrotimes.com/news /stories/cul/18/27/Wdbrdge.htm l |
Mallory Member Username: Mallory
Post Number: 82 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 8:47 am: | |
WOW! What an absolutely sad ending to a historic landmark (in my opinion). I used to go there for a nightcap after work at the River Place (aka Tangerine Room) down the street. Especially on dead nights, we'd either go to the Rhino (RIP) or the Tavern, or sometimes the Soup Kitchen. I'll say it again: WAY TO GO, ARCHER! I agree with Charlottepaul, send the bill to Archer. |
Dbc Member Username: Dbc
Post Number: 31 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 1:04 am: | |
That sucks. That was such a cool bar with a great historic Detroit feel. I last went there to see Jerry Sprague, which should be a familiar name to any Spartans from the 90's. Rivertown was great back then, with BC's, the Rivertown Saloon, the Rhinoceros, the Soup Kitchen, and the Woodbridge. I guess GM has grand plans for the area, but it's hard to replace the character and uniqueness of places like the Woodbridge. |
Eric_w Member Username: Eric_w
Post Number: 29 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 4:43 pm: | |
sadly another piece of Detroit's legacy gone for good. Just a comment- I hate the name " Rivertown"- I liked it before when it was known as the "Warehouse District".That place had some unique character. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 4822 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 4:52 pm: | |
quote: thought Pinky's Boulevard Club, at E. Jefferson at the Belle Isle bridge, had the first license after Prohibition. The club is now a Starbucks Right about the first point. The building burned, was razed, and the Starbucks was built as new construction. Miss sitting at that piano bar sipping on a Manhatten imagining a Detroit of another era. (sigh) |