  Keeler Member Username: Keeler Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2007 |
Does anyone remember a hotel, at least I think it was, at the corner of Grandville and Grand River? Also wasn't there a Kresge store near Grand River and Southfield? | ||
Winstin_o_boogie_iii Member Username: Winstin_o_boogie_iii Post Number: 68 Registered: 02-2007 |
Welcome to DY Keeler. I grew up closer to Puritan. Yes, there was a Kresge's in the Grandland Shopping Center, a few blocks west of the Southfield, situated between Grand River to the north and Fenkell to the south. Grandland was recently discussed here, some interesting comments and recollections https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/102621.html | ||
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy Post Number: 69 Registered: 04-2007 |
What is the time frame? As far as I remember, Kregar's "Pickwick House" restaurant filled the block between Outer Drive and Grandville on the south side of the street, Dunkin' Donuts (now Elias Donuts) was on the SE corner, and the north side of Grand River is filled with storefronts. Kregar's had a parking lot on the east side of the building on the corner of Grandville, so maybe that was something else before my time. I don't know what was on the other corner before the donut shop. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 263 Registered: 05-2004 |
They also had an A & P plus a Great Scott over there off the intersection of Grand River, Fenkell and Southfield. The White Castle has been replaced by a K of C. on Southfield service drive. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 264 Registered: 05-2004 |
Kresges had store next to Montgomery Wards on Grand River and Greenfield. | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 499 Registered: 05-2007 |
My RP background does not go back far enough to know of a hotel in that area before the 70's. During the 70's, there was not a hotel in the Grandville and Grand River area. | ||
Keeler Member Username: Keeler Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2007 |
Thanks for the input. I am pretty sure it was the Kregar's "Pickwick House" restaurant I was thinking about. I remember now that it was not frequented by my family and may have been force to close. Perhaps that was just a neighborhood legend, though. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1319 Registered: 04-2006 |
Kressgee also had a store in Grandland. It became a McCrory just as dime stores were being replaced by large drug stores like Perry and Arbor. | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 430 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Cregar's site now houses a medical bldg. I don't think a hotel was ever there. You're coreect...you may be thinking of Cregar's additional ID...The Pickwick House. I believe it closed simply because of lack of diners, although there was an FBI sting there during the late 70's or early 80's but it didn't have anything to do with the ownership, simply the local politicos that frequented the place. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 3799 Registered: 10-2003 |
Cregar's, like Sanders, was a popular place decades ago, but their clients died off. One of my friends was a busboy there just before they closed, and commented that the average age of the customers, as well as the waitstaff, seemed to be 75. He remembers one poor waitress dropping dead of a heart attack, tray in hand. The FBI sting targeted Realtor Darylyn Bowers, a crony of Coleman Young who made a fortune blockbusting during the end of the NW Detroit White Flight of the 70's. She was also tied to the Vesco Oil Co. scandal, if I recall. Cregar's still maintains a catering business out of Meadowbrook Hall, I believe. |
