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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6014
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 5:41 pm: |    |
Steps baseball and pick-up games on the vacant corner lot.
jjaba, Eagle Claws atcha. |
Eastside_man
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Username: Eastside_man
Post Number: 25
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:09 pm: | |
I think Goblue must be suffering flashbacks from the 70's. We ran all those streets in the 60's and the only bad MO-FO's we ran into hung out on Gratiot between Lappin and Statefair. So get a grip on reality. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 995
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:44 pm: | |
Lighten up Eastside_...ES61 and I were on the northeast side in the 50's & 60's...we've been jabbing each other with lighthearted digs for months...learn to laugh! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 812
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:18 am: | |
GB - What •••• You mean you weren't Serious???????? Those stories are not true? jjaba actually lived on the corner of Whitehill and Brittain? Jjaba sang in the 6th grade Guardian Angels Boys Glee Club? and that you were a caddie at Chandler Park instead of the CCof D? This is too much for me |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1004
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
ES: You go too far! I NEVER caddied at Chandler Park...howsomever I was the ball/shag boy for the club pro at CP for one season after my career at CCD...his name was Al Lopez...I'd chase down the balls hit by a student when he was giving lessons...he also taught me how to hit a short iron with back spin.
Actually, I think Jjaba might have been SH's cousin...I remember her saying something one time about Westside relatives. It seemed curious at the time but then I've learned so many things about her that have left me incredulous. She seemed to have such high standards when I knew her. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6021
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
If it's high standards, then jjaba is your guy.
jjaba would remind Denby that here in St. Brigit's Parish, hard by Ohio and Schoolcraft with Parducci freize(1950), we had but two religions on our streets; Catholics and Publics. jjaba was the latter, attending Noble School, run by DPS.
Ofcourse, the onliest difference over here is that at 3:30 pm the Jews got on buses for Hebrew School on Mon.-Thurs. on Dexter Blvd., getting home for dinner after 6pm.
jjaba assumes that this was the same in the Denby HS Catchment. So you dedicate this thread to the Publics amongst you.
jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 815
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:19 pm: | |
Jjaba "You Da Man!".......Mapleridge mob for sure - Two blocks from the famous Christopher Columbus DPS school of distinction - and we were the only family who went to Publics......No after school hebrew school though.....we waited for MYF on sunday nights at Mt Hope Methodist on 7 mile.....so the public bond continues and I am sure you will find that your true roots are on the eastern side of Woodward AVE.....Your parents got it right by sending you to CT the E'Side Tower of Education Power... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1006
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:51 pm: | |
J: SH did indeed have high standards... unfortunately I have since learned that in the years after we parted she seemed willing to accept any ne're do well who knocked on her door...most notably the CEO of Mapleridge Mob, Inc...much to the chagrin of her sweet and lovely mother, her DPD officer father...and her older sis...each family has a rebel I guess.
Fordham was about evenly divided between Catholics and Publics...We Lutherans however did have to attend two years worth of catechism study every Saturday morning 9:00-noon...and then two years worth of three times a week after school from 3:30-6:00...catching the Chalmers bus at Kercheval to ride home...the period of study concluded by age 13 however...by the time we became TARS we could begin to practice...I quickly realized that if you could go to hell for thinking about it the penalty for actually doing it could be no greater! I was wrong...that philosophy eventually led me into the disaster of SE'59. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 819
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 6:19 pm: | |
GB - So it was the Lutheran Youth group that you sold the "Safe and Sane" fireworks to........????? You also made the Temple Circuit for your westside cousins who lived on Northlawn as part of the hebrew school experience......for both celebrating Bat / Bar Mitzvah's....You lutheran guys have always stirred up things over the years. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6026
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 6:31 pm: | |
Since when does Lutheran go to Catechism?
On the Westside, that's Catholics.
No, Cass Tech. is city-wide. If it were Eastside, it would have more than 2 punks with ducktails going there, like Denby.
jjaba was recently at Cass Tech. and it was almost all-black. Is that Denby too today?
Hard to explain the white flight to today's generation. Some students probably didn't even know Detroit at one time was Black and White together at Cass Tech.
When Cass gets out, stand there and see how many take the Eastbound vs. Westbound Grand River bus.
Actually, most students either drive or get picked up, probably.
jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1008
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
J: Catechism is/was probably only for Missouri Synod Lutherans (one step removed from Catholic).
I wore my hair in a short Princeton...but I do recall that ES has his in a very greasy ducktail...he was the Eastside Fonz. The word was that he used a quart of Vitalis per month.
I think that Denby today is likely 99.9% Black...there was an area in the Denby district known as Copper Canyon near Balduck Park that was largely White...until the courts ruled that the DPD could not be required to live inside the city.
You're right...it is all but impossible to explain White flight...and Detroit of the 40's and 50's. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6027
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 9:57 pm: | |
We will never know what would it be like if Detroit had residency requirements today for city workers, DPS staff and faculty, and all the bus drivers. Having an invasive staff living in lily white suburbs and commuting to serve the city, seems like occupation to jjaba. It was a stabilizing factor in past generations.
ALC churches had catechism too. jjaba's wife went every Sat. morning for two yrs. before confirmation. She's from Urbana, Illinois.
jjaba. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1011
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 11:02 pm: | |
OHMIGAWD Jjaba...related to a noted Spartan!?! Well...every family has one such I guess! Even SH dumped ES because he became a Spartan while she is Wolverine through and through!
I think you're right about city workers and occupancy...it seemed like the city was holding together by a thin thread until that court ruling...once all of the workers fled the result was cast in stone. We'll never know what might have been. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 822
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
J - boy: I have done some Eastside research and CT was considered an EASTSIDE HS.......even when it was connected to Commerce HS.
Jjaba: Other documents about your westside experience will be revealed right here in the near future- You might want to e mail your brother who is the CEO of LETS in Arizona for advice |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6030
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:55 pm: | |
No Westside Cass Tech. students pack lunches to school. Proof enough that Cass Tech is not an Eastside school. If you have to go to the Eastside, you always pack a lunch.
jjaba, Cass Tech. Printer, 1959. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 826
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 3:01 pm: | |
Michigan STATE 78 uOFm 63 Cass Tech/Commerce 0
"Cass Tech/Commerce the Power House Eastside School once again came up short" Jjaba- Coming soon to DY will be the true story of your existence on the westside while attending the eastside HS...and printing fireworks posters for your WMU sorority sister GB. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1014
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:49 pm: | |
ES: I have no idea what the numbers mean at the top of your post.
There were no posters for my former business...word of mouth advertising...satisfied customers tell potential buyers...unfortunately one was a cop. How was I to know it was illegal...nobody ever told ME! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 828
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:15 pm: | |
It means that with about 6 minutes to play in the game all players on the MSU bench were able to get into the game......
Your denial style started when you began to sell illegal fireworks...and it has gotten worse over the years.......did LETS provide mental health benefits to their CEO???? |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1018
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:48 pm: | |
I thought ignorance of the law was a legitimate defense...that and I had a tough childhood so I shouldn't be held accountable. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 831
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:55 pm: | |
Only Harold Hammond was ignorant.......and a few of his fellow staff members.... |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6033
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:57 pm: | |
When going to the Eastside of Detroit, pack the #5 at The Esquire on Dexter Blvd.; pastrami and swiss on Kaiser with half-sour pickle and a slice of cherry steudel.
All's they got over there is Blood Sausage, Kielbasa, Rigitoni, and feather bowling.
jjaba, Proudly Westside, Proudly Cass Tech. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1019
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 7:47 pm: | |
All riiiight!! Jjaba brings the lunch...I've got the Stroh's...pastrami and swiss on a Kaiser tops blood sausage any day! Not much feather bowling though...that's at the Cadieux Cafe. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 833
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 3:08 pm: | |
Jjaba - Would you print the tour maps of the dynamic eastside adventure??????? Remember that the TC CSI group is zeroing in on your supposed WESTSIDE upbringing......No denials when the info is posted here on DYES!•••••••• There is one photo of you on Jefferson and Cadillac Blvd......remember that one????? |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6039
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 4:42 pm: | |
Cadillac is at Clark St. and Michigan Ave. and that's Westside. Sadly, now a vacant lot.
Never heard of any Cadillac Blvd. in Detroit.
jjaba, NW sider. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 838
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:21 pm: | |
Jjaba.....Quit sniffing the printers ink.....b/W photo has surfaced and it is the corner of Jefferson/ Cadillac Blvd......Google Earth might refresh your memory....this Clark , Michigan Ave, and other sad vacant lots on the westside are meaningless....GB has been a huge help in the Jjaba CSI investigations that are going on as we speak about Denby high School......You went to a Great EASTSIDE HS and hang in there ....more to follow!••• |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1032
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 7:48 pm: | |
Jjaba: Stay cool...ES is off his meds again...plus I think its from sniffing too much cow and pig manure during the 60's...I understand they have a high ammonia content! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 841
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:26 pm: | |
GB - I am so glad that you are now eligible for "medical Marijuana" and can continue your rehab. Why are you a well grounded although totally stoned eastsider telling the Dexter Bus driver to STAY COOL.....he will never be cool until he heads east....
Bulletin ! Bulletin! More information regarding the "J" boy and his Noble school experience has surfaced......so GB are you going to support the EASTERN SIDE or are you leaning towards a vacation on Northlawn with "J" boy?????? |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1038
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
ES: Eastside thru and thru...the closest I ever got to the westside was a semester at WSU...had to drive through it to get to WMU but kept the accelerator to the floor the whole time. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6042
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:24 am: | |
Goblue, didn't they teach geography at Denby?
Wayne State Univ., Cass Tech HS, Capitol Park, Tiger Stadium, The Casinos, The Fisher Bldg., and Palmer Park cannot be called Westside. They belong to all of Detroit. The Michigan State Fair ain't Eastside either.
The Westside is more like places such as Cooley HS, Mumford HS, Ford HS, Delray, Warrendale, Brightmoor, Livernois.
Goblue went to college. He knows better.
jjaba. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1039
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
J: Me bad...you're right...shame on me! |