Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11091 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 12:04 pm: | |
Oh yeah, I'll be there. We're at the Park, right? Better get out of here, I've got work to finish up in Royal Oak...cannot believe it's NOON already. |
Plymouthres Member Username: Plymouthres
Post Number: 323 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 12:10 pm: | |
Yes we are! Seeeeeeeeyaaaaa! |
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque
Post Number: 32 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 2:30 pm: | |
It looks like, from this webcam view, that the Campus Martius Ice Rink is FULL of people...
but then, I see it was just dust on my computer monitor... |
Waymooreland Member Username: Waymooreland
Post Number: 8 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 2:56 pm: | |
Went skating at CM last Sunday with my wife and our niece and nephew. It was pretty full, but not to the point that it felt restrictive out on the ice. I and a few other patrons were hypnotized by the sight of the Lions closing in on a victory against the Cowboys on the Au Bon Pain plasma screens...until they blew it in the final minute. Skating was fun, though! |
Formerspringgardener Member Username: Formerspringgardener
Post Number: 71 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 5:21 pm: | |
7_and_kelly_kid - 14493 : between Chalmers and Celestine. Our house and a number of others in that stretch are gone too. |
Formerspringgardener Member Username: Formerspringgardener
Post Number: 72 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 5:24 pm: | |
Kid_dynamite - Have eaten at Eph's at least once a week since it opened on Woodward. Haven't been disappointed yet! |
J32885 Member Username: J32885
Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 8:33 pm: | |
Been driving by the rink lately, I don't see a lot of action during the daytime. Usually, the late afternoons and evenings are a bigger draws for people at the rink. Hopefully next month, I'll be taking my girlfriend to the rink for some ice skating. |
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield
Post Number: 1416 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 9:26 pm: | |
I don't have a clue about CM. My mom used to take me down to "rink" in front ot the Bob-Lo boat departure dock in th late 50's. Skate around and had fun. I don't think/remember if you could rent skates, nor what the "price" was to access the facility. Bit..10+ years later...and more...Midnight Madness @ Windsor Arena, Ice Follies ? Mack & Wayburn, and Gordie Howe Hockeyland on 9 Mile. Memories? |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 458 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 9:55 pm: | |
quote:Memories? None whatsoever. Campus Martius is amazing, that's all I know. |
Billk Member Username: Billk
Post Number: 188 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:06 pm: | |
During the day, most kids are in school and most adults are at work. |
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 665 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:13 pm: | |
I used to work there as a rink guard. yes, attendance is sporatic. But evenings are pretty well attended, and weekends and holidays and winterblast ALWAYS pack the house... I think the boards are a great idea. I had to help ten million kids and adults up off the ice... without the boards it would have been way worse... |
Docmo Member Username: Docmo
Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:15 pm: | |
100 people skating right now |
Steamaker Member Username: Steamaker
Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:37 pm: | |
I haven't lived in Michigan for 21 years. Forgive me for being naive. Where is CM? |
Rob_in_warren Member Username: Rob_in_warren
Post Number: 50 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 3:45 pm: | |
Skating downtown is fun, but I feel it's too small of a rink to really relax and skate. 100 people at once would be way too crowded. I wish they'd set up a big outdoor rink on Belle Isle, or near the river. You could set up some amazing hockey games on a big sheet of ice. |
Texorama Member Username: Texorama
Post Number: 118 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 4:47 pm: | |
Steamaker--everything you want and more is at: http://campusmartiuspark.org I sometimes sit and work in the Au Bon Pain window seats, looking out at the skaters. Attendance fluctuates during the day but picks up toward the end of the workday. |
Steamaker Member Username: Steamaker
Post Number: 44 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 5:10 pm: | |
Thanks Tex |
Dbc Member Username: Dbc
Post Number: 93 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 11:47 pm: | |
I thought they fixed up Flynn Pavilion and brought ice skating back to Belle Isle. Whatever happened with that? |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 6710 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 - 1:45 am: | |
Is there still a rink in Hart Plaza? I still remember skating there eons ago and remembered how between the place where one laces up to the ice surface was a strip of concrete (great for your skate edges). It was still fun though skating those circles, looking up in the night sky and seeing the Ren Cen in the background. |
Queensfinest Member Username: Queensfinest
Post Number: 139 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 - 6:51 am: | |
Billk said, "During the day, most kids are in school and most adults are at work." In Mischissippi? Right.... Where are they really at? |
Cynknight Member Username: Cynknight
Post Number: 100 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 - 11:21 am: | |
Hey, Queensfinest, spreading more love and sunshine on yet another thread, I see. Seriously, you're free to post anything you want as often as you want (following the forum rules, of course) - but I'm amazed that you seem to find it fun to spend your time trashing the Detroit area. What did Detroit do to you the two years you spent living here? Just curious. |
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 45 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 - 4:50 pm: | |
I'd like a recommendation- I'm back in Detroit visiting family, and I'd love to go ice skating downtown. What would be the best time to go, which times are the most/least crowded? Or does it just depend on the weather? |
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame
Post Number: 194 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 4:29 pm: | |
Oh, yeah, the Gordie Howe hockey rink was a neighborhood affair about once a month for us on the East Side. Somebody's mother would pile us into their station wagon and we'd spend the whole day. My ankles would tingle and ache like crazy. Fun, but had to be a completely different experience than skating like they do in NYC: outside, downtown, with the city all around. To me, it's an apples and oranges thing. Next trip home, though, I'll have to "take it outside". |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 12:25 pm: | |
If I had my way, this bump in this road called Woodward Avenue would be restored back to the way it was - a straight path to the river. I ache with pain everytime I see how Woodward Avenue is disturbed with this iceberg called called a skating rink. Please my fellow Detroiters, this is not New York's Rockefeller Center. Wake up. Also, how dare they put this suburban-style Compuware Building in the heart of downtown Detroit. That piece of land should have been saved for a real sky building -say like 40-60 stories high. Whoever plans the terrain of downtown Detroit needs to be fired immediately. |
Mdoyle Member Username: Mdoyle
Post Number: 318 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 1:46 pm: | |
/\ This oughtta be good. |
Waymooreland Member Username: Waymooreland
Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 1:57 pm: | |
This might be the first time I've ever heard someone express such distaste for the Campus Martius. Do many others share these sentiments? Personally, I really love CM. I agree that I am also partial to taller high-rises and kind of wish that Compuware had been built to make an impact on the skyline, but I still like the look of the building. Plus, shouldn't we take what we can get and not be so particular? Because I like Compuware a hell of a lot more than a vacant lot. I mean, I would be thrilled it if Quicken would unveil plans to build a 40+ story tower at the Hudson's site, but as long as that parcel is developed, I'm not going to be that picky about it. It's still progress, even if it doesn't precisely fit your individual tastes. |
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill
Post Number: 432 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 1:58 pm: | |
Im confused regarding the above comment, Campus Martius is probably the most succesful venue designed in Detroit in the last 40 years. It has turned out to be a catalyst for bringing metro Detroit together and last year nominated as one of the top ten gathering spots in a U.S city..Im glad we didnt "save" this spot for a possible undetermined, unknown and non existant 40 story highrise... We would have a area full of decay presently if we did, |
Gianni Member Username: Gianni
Post Number: 343 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:15 pm: | |
Nothing to be confused about except ignorance and someone who it seems never gets out of his car. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2272 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:26 pm: | |
Figebornu, you do realise that it is one of the best public spaces in North America, right? http://www.pps.org/info/newsle tter/december2005/us_canada_sq uares Tell me that you liked better the way that it was before: http://www.pps.org/info/newsle tter/thirtieth_anniversary/gre atest_hits_7 "Nothing to be confused about except ignorance and someone who it seems never gets out of his car." Yeah, that must be why Campus Martius bothers Figebornu so much--one driving down Woodward has to make a few slight turns in his car, something that didn't have to be done just a few years ago. The straight line to the river is disturbed!! |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 5 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:43 pm: | |
CM voted one of the best public spaces in NA? Give me a break. What voting system did they use to vote for this - the same one that they used in FL and OH during the Bush elections? Another thing....I generally do not drive. I walk, ride my bike and take the bus in this city and region that has literally destroyed itself for refusing to get together and take advantage of hundreds of millions of federal dollars to built a mass transit system. This has resulted in what a U of M professor calls "transportation apartheid" because, for instance, a young black kid cannot get from Gratiot and Mack to Pontiac, etc. unless he has a car. This segregated area called Metro Detroit has allowed the legal robbery of hundreds of thousands of both white and black people who cannot take advantage of the resources of SE Michigan. It is sinful. But beware, I am working on fixing this. Stay tuned! |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3373 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:45 pm: | |
"young black kid cannot get from Gratiot and Mack to Pontiac unless he has a car" too good to take a bus? |
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave
Post Number: 111 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:53 pm: | |
is there more than one rink downtown? i drove by some ice about a week and half ago and if what i saw was the rink, i could put a bigger sheet in my backyard and my lot isnt very big... |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:59 pm: | |
And of course I am glad that the area was developed. But it should have been done in a more permanent, distinguished style. CM looks like it may wither in a bad storm. |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 7 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 7:04 pm: | |
Lilpup asks if the black kid is "too good to take a bus?" First of all a handful of Metro Detroit communities have voted not to even let buses pick up or drop off in their communities. Secondly, the so-called bus systems in Metro Detroit are so ancient that one may die in February waiting for a bus that may or may not come. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3374 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 7:04 pm: | |
Ltdave, according to previous discussions here the rink is 64'x120'. It's also refrigerated so it can withstand a 50 degree ambient air temperature. "CM looks like it may wither in a bad storm" You're new to the area, aren't you. |
Detx Member Username: Detx
Post Number: 72 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 11:46 pm: | |
Figebornu, is that you????????? http://www.figebornu.blogspot. com/ |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4831 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:57 am: | |
I think Campus Martius is great, of ALL the things to complain about in the city, that is nowhere NEAR even the middle of the list. |
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 463 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
I like how that guy's title at the end of his blog is: "Fige Bornu, Chairman Positive African Image Institute" F*ck off. |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 18 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
To Detx: www.figebornu.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/figebornu and more |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 808 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
weird, very very weird. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2277 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 12:52 pm: | |
"Please my fellow Detroiters, this is not New York's Rockefeller Center. Wake up." Figebornu, your favorite public space was on this list too http://www.pps.org/info/newsle tter/december2005/us_canada_sq uares So you can't say this about the PPS group: "CM voted one of the best public spaces in NA? Give me a break. What voting system did they use to vote for this - the same one that they used in FL and OH during the Bush elections?" |
Detx Member Username: Detx
Post Number: 73 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 6:48 pm: | |
Not to get too off topic here, but I never knew Mad Cow disease is genetic. |