  Richie Member Username: Richie Post Number: 70 Registered: 08-2007 |
Someone needs to buy this for a buck and move it to the "D". http://ohiopreservationallianc e.homestead.com/splash4.html | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1801 Registered: 04-2006 |
It might be better to integrate it into the Mud Hens 5/3 stadium. Its not a big structure. In fact, why can't the Y keep it as a coffeshop? | ||
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 511 Registered: 09-2004 |
I'll donate the dollar if someone can get the thing up here and drop it on a recently created Downtown streetcorner parking lot. So many parking lots eating up valuable streetcorner space! Good to see they are working to make sure it's saved, though. There's a few little ones like that scattered around Detroit, too. | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 1396 Registered: 03-2008 |
We have many of these in Detroit and even more in the inner suburbs. Below is a link to the Michigan Burger Stand web site. Link: http://www.agilitynut.com/eate ries/miburger.html | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 281 Registered: 08-2006 |
Got an old "White Tower" in Hamtramck already; http://www.yelp.com/biz/campau -tower-hamtramck | ||
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 512 Registered: 09-2004 |
Good list Sean, but there are also several others. I did a photo project on several of the old burger joints for a class project in high school. Anyone have a photo of the original Powers Burgers in west Dearborn that was sadly demolished so something else could be expanded? | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 520 Registered: 08-2007 |
Whats with the White Tower on Michigan a block east of Schaefer? | ||
Rid0617 Member Username: Rid0617 Post Number: 247 Registered: 03-2008 |
Down here we have Krystal which is basically the southern White Castle. | ||
Greebomusic Member Username: Greebomusic Post Number: 2 Registered: 08-2008 |
Mmmm Bray's! Haven't had any since I was a kid. I seem to remember eating at a Tic Toc Hamburgers on 12 mile in Berkley also.... | ||
Dave70 Member Username: Dave70 Post Number: 59 Registered: 08-2007 |
I just had Telway recently, hehe. Pretty good sliders there... I don't think I can eat White Castle again now. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2868 Registered: 07-2004 |
The White Tower chain had about a dozen restaurants in Detroit in the 1940s. Even one on Woodward near Charlotte. Don't know much more about them, except that a handful survive as slider joints. That one on Michigan serves dynamite "hillbilly chili".  | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 93 Registered: 01-2008 |
The White Tower that used to exist on Jos. Campau was indeed a Temple to the Goddess of Gut Grenades. Used to stop there on occaison on the way home to my rat crib after a night of drunken debachery at Lili's. You can tell a slider's quality by the ability of it's grease to soak up on the bottom of the paper bag it comes in. Yum, artery clogging goodness! | ||
Jita1 Member Username: Jita1 Post Number: 19 Registered: 08-2008 |
"I just had Telway recently, hehe. Pretty good sliders there... I don't think I can eat White Castle again now." Telway has the best coffee in town. | ||
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd Post Number: 30 Registered: 04-2008 |
The White Tower on Jefferson and Wayburn is, and has been, the turn-around for the Jeff Ave bus. I noticed the circle around it even in 1949.  I know, big whoop. (Message edited by kennyd on August 12, 2008) | ||
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 515 Registered: 09-2004 |
I think I remember a little burger joint at Evergreen and Schoolcraft.. maybe? Anyone know which little stand that is? There's also ROYAL burgers on Wyoming and Joy(?). | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 2051 Registered: 04-2005 |
 LOC White Tower on Chene, demoed for the Poletown plant. | ||
Newport1128 Member Username: Newport1128 Post Number: 204 Registered: 05-2007 |
Kennyd, even before it was a turnaround for buses, the White Tower at Jefferson & Wayburn was a turnaround for streetcars. I went to St. Ambrose school, which was just up Wayburn from the WT. In high school, at lunchtime, we used to crowd 30 kids into that restaurant, meant to handle maybe 12. Standing room only! You could get a cheeseburger and a Coke for $.52, or, on Fridays, a grilled cheese and Coke for the same price. | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 1385 Registered: 11-2006 |
Newport1128, did you once tell me that you knew my dad Bill from the Grosse Pointe Beer Store? | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 266 Registered: 10-2007 |
The burger joint at Schoolcraft and Evergreen is still there. It was called "Sonny's", now it's called Jackson's. They close at 5pm daily. | ||
Newport1128 Member Username: Newport1128 Post Number: 205 Registered: 05-2007 |
Kathinozarks, nope that wasn't me. | ||
Dianeinaustin Member Username: Dianeinaustin Post Number: 89 Registered: 02-2008 |
My brother worked at Sonny's in 1974, I lived on Vaughn for about a year. So long ago. Good to know it is still operating. | ||
Msamslex Member Username: Msamslex Post Number: 59 Registered: 06-2007 |
Reddog289 The restaurant on Michigan just east of Schaefer is still open. Busterwmu, Royal's on Joy and Wyoming closed some years ago. Somebody bought it and renamed it Albatross on the big sign on the Wyoming side, then it was changed to Three Brothers and now the building is up for sale. The Royal crown is painted on building. I used to stop by the carry out side when I walked home from school and get a small bag of fries, cooked fresh and hot. I believe Elmer's is still open on Chicago and Oakman. They were always open 24/7. | ||
Pkbroch Member Username: Pkbroch Post Number: 79 Registered: 02-2008 |
Kathinorzarks -I remember the Village Wine Shop on Jefferson in GPP. Newport 1128 What years in St. Ambrose? | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3517 Registered: 01-2005 |
There was a string of White Tower looking places called Mott's Hamburgers back in the fifties and sixties. One at Schoolcraft and Schaefer for sure. | ||
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 245 Registered: 08-2007 |
"Newport1128"; Did you ever know someone by the name of Gagnier at St. Ambrose High School? | ||
Newport1128 Member Username: Newport1128 Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2007 |
Pkbroch, 1957-69 Stinger4me, no, I didn't know anyone named Gagnier. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 1706 Registered: 07-2007 |
TOO late: Deadline was 07/31/08. Price: $1 or Best Offer and relocation costs. Submit proposals prior to - July 31, 2008 - by mail, fax or e-mail to: | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 166 Registered: 10-2007 |
MMM Dandy Hamburgers on the corner of Greenfield and Plymouth. The big treat of the week for me as a little girl would be a hamburger or 2 on the night that we would walk to the bookmobile. I still get cravings sometimes for them, and Bates hamburgers in Livonia (5 mile and Farmington) do a pretty reasonable job in filling that craving! Yummers! | ||
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 246 Registered: 08-2007 |
9936Sussex; What year was that and where was the DPL Bookmobile? | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 167 Registered: 10-2007 |
Stinger4me: Would have been in the mid-to-late 50's. The bookmobile parked on a couple of streets west of Greenfield. Don't remember which street it was. But I lived on Sussex (pretty obvious) and we walked from Sussex down Plymouth past Dandy's to go to the Bookmobile first, and then would get burgers after. | ||
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 247 Registered: 08-2007 |
I don't recall the street either, worked on the Bookmobile in the mid 60's. I caught that run one semester while I was in college. There was another location on Brammel farther out. Do you suppose they still have a Bookmobile in Detroit? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2977 Registered: 07-2004 |
No. Reading is no longer fundamental.  | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 168 Registered: 10-2007 |
Stinger4me: Are you a librarian? (me too!) I might be mistaken, but I think the DPL cut out bookmobile service in the late 70's-80's. | ||
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 248 Registered: 08-2007 |
NO, hardly a librarian. I was a lowly page, check-out clerk on the Bookmobile while I was doing my first stint in college. Two days on the travelling library filled up most of my work schedule. I can recall some of the librarians I worked with during a couple of years at DPL. |
