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Post Number: 798
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 1:41 am: |    |
GB - Your Bronco cousin's history of when he left Motown is not known to me......He resides in West Bloomfield.....????? Farmington ????? He is still printing low budget pulp??? He is lost on the Dexter Bus and cannot get off????? he owns a home on Chandler Park Drive under an assumed name????? |
Goblue
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Post Number: 981
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
ES: I'm thinking that Jjaba is on the Detroit version of the MTA...the Dexter bus...if he lost his transfer ticket he may never get home. Personally, I think he lives in Grosse Point Park as part of the Westside witness protection program...is there a statue of limitations on vandalizing restaurants no matter how good the cause? Plus...I heard that he was instrumental in having a dean of men fired while he was at WMU...I was too busying studying and preparing for the future to be fully aware of such goings on. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 800
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 12:45 pm: | |
GB - The CSI group has investigated "J" and the GPP residence is confirmed.....they are working on a new set of clues that DEVILS NIGHT burning of buildings was the brain child of "J"......Those Cass Pyro Tech HS programs which existed behind Printing curriculum should have been shut down.....other rumors: "J" the wanna bee Eastsider actually drives Bus# 4306 on the Dexter line.... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 985
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:59 pm: | |
ES: Bus driver on the Dexter line...that would explain a lot of things...J had a sideline at WMU of driving attractive coeds back to D on the weekends...obviously if he used a bus the profit margin would have been significant. Didn't Valiant also make a mini-bus? |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 803
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 1:07 am: | |
So he would take the Temple Bus and tell his rabbi that it was being used for westside activities.....slip on the DSR Dexter sign and drive it to WMU.....since no WMU coed would hang with the "J"... these must have been coed's who were trying to get into Livernois University prinitng programs..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 990
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
I keep tellin' ya...it was the MSU coeds that had a real thing for us Broncos...they kept referring to some sort'a deficiency on their own campus...we figured it musta been the salt peter they put in your mash potatoes. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 807
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:08 pm: | |
I Only know one individual who went to WMU other than you and Dexter Bus Driver.....I think actually MSU coeds felt sorry for you who went to WMU and but they would never travel west to K.... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 993
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:51 pm: | |
Whatever...we were more than happy to accept their expressions of sympathy! |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 190
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 1:44 pm: | |
All: Let's return to a little nostalgia: Above is a picture of a man who always walked back and forth on Eastwood to shop on Kelly Rd. He never drove. He may have even lived on Saratoga or Morang. He usually wore a suit and was very popular with the kids on Eastwood....He always had a smile and would engage in conversation. For the life of me I can not remember his name. 7K, I know he was around during your era. He might been around during ES's era. The shot was taken in Eastwood near Redmond looking east (late 60s). |
7_and_kelly_kid
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Post Number: 62
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:00 pm: | |
yep.......didn't he live 2nd house off rex.........on your side your block? |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 191
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:55 pm: | |
7K,
Nope. He lived somewhere near Morang. I don't think it was even Eastwood but he would cut down Eastwood since it was the shortest distance to Kelly Rd. The people that lived near Rex had an Italian last name (I might just have to find my old route book to find their name....only 3-4 houses from where ES once resided) |
7_and_kelly_kid
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Post Number: 63
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 3:34 pm: | |
ES?........ |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 809
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 3:37 pm: | |
I think his first name was Eugene......???? |
Goblue
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Post Number: 997
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:50 pm: | |
Hmmmmm...funny...I thought his name was Edward...the hat is a dead giveaway! |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 814
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:26 am: | |
GB - Ok OK....You win! and I still have the tie but the hat was sent to a director of an Arizona Educational Non-Profit consulting firm. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1002
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:34 am: | |
ES: You're right...the Leadership, Evaluation and Training Services Group held a benefit dinner with a silent auction...I think our CFO told me that the hat brought in $.16...we advised the IRS of your contribution. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 817
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:27 pm: | |
GB - Is it true that one of the founders of LETS was Harold Hammond? Was the $.16 in US dollars? You will Never get the tie!•••••••• so quit begging for it.......NO!••• The tie is mine! Clip ons are difficult to come by... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1007
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:53 pm: | |
ES: HH was dead and gone by the time LETS became a Fortune 500 consulting firm with worldwide clients. Best that you keep the tie...or send it to the Smithsonian! |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 820
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| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 6:26 pm: | |
Gb - sorry to hear about the passing of a true educator Harold Hammond. I thought that he died the day before he wouldn't sign my MSU application for Spring '61..I will offer you the tie for the TC CSI reunion.....and please do not "ralph" on it as you have been known to do when your are surrounded by MSU foxes....... |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1009
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 8:56 pm: | |
ES: Surrounded by MSU and WMU foxes is part of my resume...trust me...the Eastside charm and sophistication will be present. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 821
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
GB - I can't wait to see the Fordham Master in action........and here I was wondering if they would even talk to you..... |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:47 pm: | |
ES: Flowers and some Godiva chocolates go a long way...along with a little Southern drawl acquired during the Alabama years...'n some sippin' whiskey. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 824
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:54 pm: | |
MICHIGAN STATE 72 michigan 63 Cass Tech 0 |
Goblue
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Post Number: 1016
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| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:54 pm: | |
KR, 7K, Flanders...anybody...HELP!! ES is off his meds again...he keeps writing numbers that don't make any sense...please get us back to the old man on Eastwood. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 827
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| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:11 pm: | |
What a weekend!••••••• The Eastwood Old Man was right........We Big We Bad and we be green and white....Ooooooops....CT is green and white , too.......Jjaba will like it ••••••
Keep PRINTING those scores Jjaba......72 - 63 - 00 |
7_and_kelly_kid
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Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:51 pm: | |
my dad called him "Emil the Buffalo"........"buffalo" referring to anyone of
Belgium decent |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 7:58 pm: | |
Yup...the folks who owned our neighborhood grocery store...at the corner of Eastwood and Celestine were the Briggees (sp?)...they were referred to as the Buffalos in the pre politically correct days. Mr. Briggee kept a coop of racing pigeons above their garage...one day I found one of his pigeons (identified by the leg tag) tangled in some vines in the alley behind our house...I took it back to him and he gave me a single-dip chocolate ice cream cone. I'll never forget their display case of penny candy and the time spent trying to decide how to spend three cents. They were good people who could tell me how my sister who was eight years old came running to tell them that I had been born. It is so sad that such a sense of neighborhood has been lost from our society.
I'll bet that "Emil the Buffalo" frequented the Cadieux Cafe. |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 192
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:08 am: | |
GB,
Another chapter in the far eastside book...What happened to the corner stores? The store on Macrary and Faricrest was a stopping point before delivering the News. Stores on Hayes and Saratoga, Chalmers and Mapleridge, and several others dotted the neighborhood west of Hayes and east of Chalmers. East of Hayes had fewer stores. Of course the opening of Chathams and later 7 eleven along with the mass exodus to suburbia aided in the demise of our beloved stores. Those stores were first opened when public transportation was the only way to get to a bigger store and refrigeration was relatively new. Along with the corner pharmacy and local tavern, the general stores are just a footnote in nostalgia yet, as GB suggested, gave a sense of neighborhood.
All: What was your or your families' local corner store, favorite tavern, and/or drugstore?
Mine: George's party store (Moross/Kelly) or if adventurous the 7/brock store (this was for buying pop and/or candy), Regal drug later Revco Drugs on 7/Hayes. Bar..Jay's Paper Station on 7/kelly |
Goblue
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 9:53 am: | |
The neighborhood stores, the neighborhood bars, the neighborhood pharmacies...these were the anchors of the Eastside and in truth of our society...my dad's favorite bar was Schoenherr's on the south side of 7 Mile between Gratiot and Chalmers...I remember sitting at the bar with him when I was maybe eight while he sipped a draft and I enjoyed my orange soda. I'm not certain why he preferred Schoenherr's...the Cozy Corner on 7 Mile at (the next street east of Celestine?) was closer...maybe he got a free beer for being a cop...I dunno.
There was a store at the SE corner of Hayes and (I think) Faircrest...the Unruh's owned it...their son Norman was a friend of mine...their garage had a basement...it must have been a barn or something in earlier days. They moved to Florida before we moved on to Denby.
All of these places though were social/community centers. The owners knew their customers...my folks had a credit line at the grocery store that was kept in a book behind the counter.
The first supermarket I remember was Big Bear...I think somewhere near 7 Mile just west of Gratiot. KR is right...refrigeration and the common ownership of cars after WWII made the transition possible. Before that we walked to the store...sometimes pulling my wagon...and waited for the ice delivery guy with his horse drawn wagon to come by...sometimes he'd give us a chip of ice to suck in the summer...this was all in the late 40's. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 835
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 3:13 pm: | |
Anyone remember the Green Oaks Bar on the corner of Morang and Harper at the X way????????? How many chapters do we have now Father Banana Head? |