  Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1583 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: You raise a good point...why create hope of becoming even honorary Eastsiders when in reality...no such hope exists...Westsiders are condemned to their sad, mundane, and charmless west and downriver existence...let's just hope that the Rouge River doesn't catch fire on them. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 410 Registered: 04-2007 |
Goblue: Correction, Downriver is NOT the west side. It has it own unique culture and long rich history quite separate from the west side. I live much closer to the Detroit river than on the eastside. Not sad, not mundane, and certainly oozing with charm. This is avowed vehemently from a born and raised eastsider and always an eastsider at heart | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 130 Registered: 04-2008 |
KR: I doubt GB meant that far downriver. The average Westsider can't comprehend anything past Southfield Road. And even that may be a stretch since I've broken the Jjaba rules and referenced an area outside the Detroit city limit. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 445 Registered: 04-2005 |
Unless of course, it refers to the southern most field within the Detroit city limits. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 132 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB was probably thinking of River Rouge and Ecorse, those upscale suburbs sophisticated Westsiders hope to move up to someday. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 411 Registered: 04-2007 |
Yes, there is some lovely realestate ready for developement on Zug Island. Get it before it's gone. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 134 Registered: 04-2008 |
Waterfront? I understand you don't even have to know how to swim. Just walk on the water. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 324 Registered: 04-2008 |
I want a riverside lot with a smokestack view from my family room. Ahhh, nothing like the sweet smell of sulfur in the morning, and a glowing green sky in the evening. Reminds me of the old porch sitting days near 7 and Kelly on the eastside. I spy, with my little eye, I'm looking at something that begins with "c". | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1589 Registered: 03-2007 |
KR: Mea culpa...I didn't mean to offend...certainly not a diehard Eastsider now residing "downriver". OD is exactly correct...I had in mind River Rouge...or Ecorse...or even Toledo although I admit that is a bit of a stretch. I did have to smile at your use of the term "oozing"...I am quite certain that you were not referring to the tributaries of the D River? | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 138 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Oozing was probably meant in the context of Zug Island. Charm is just one of many things oozing from it. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1599 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: I always thought that anything between Woodward Ave. and Ann Arbor oozed! | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 454 Registered: 04-2005 |
GB: I'm sure there are people in the Western subs who will take exception, especially if they took their penicillin | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1282 Registered: 07-2006 |
JC/GB/Od: As formed cast members of the Detroit Wiz....I remember seeing you all on stage singing "Ooze on Down the Road" | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 143 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB, ES, Jjaba ... Statistics on sanity say that one out of every four persons suffers from some sort of mental illness. I'm OK, so which one of you is it? | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1287 Registered: 07-2006 |
OD: You cannot figure it out??? The Westside Nutcake for sure!•• | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 147 Registered: 04-2008 |
You mean the wacko that thinks Ferndale is part of Detroit? See first post in... https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/133514.html?1207245059 I can live with that. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1290 Registered: 07-2006 |
OD: The Polls have closed.... ballots counted and the Westside clown has won again.... 68th year in a row!••• What a guy!•• | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1607 Registered: 03-2007 |
Careful now! Jjaba is a Bronco! | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1296 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: the dexter bus driver was the actual mascot at WMU? Here I thought that he was the mascot for UC-Santa Cruz .... the Banana Slugs..... Are you sure? The slow moving westside mentality once again for the old 68 year old mascot... | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1610 Registered: 03-2007 |
Naw, naw...Jjaba was the gatekeeper for mail and phone calls...it paid to be nice to him. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 169 Registered: 04-2008 |
I wouldn't cross Jjaba. I still remember him holding Princess Leia in chains in that Star Wars movie. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 510 Registered: 04-2005 |
No, that was his dad, Jaba. This is Junior Jaba, or Jjaba. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1615 Registered: 03-2007 |
The word around WMU in the early 60's was that Jjaba wore a garter belt...no one was ever able to confirm that however. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 172 Registered: 04-2008 |
JC: Oh, so he's Jjaba the mutt | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 514 Registered: 04-2005 |
I guess he could be called that, also. Or JabaII | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 175 Registered: 04-2008 |
With a name like that he could probably use a pair of stinky lucky socks. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1618 Registered: 03-2007 |
Actually...I always thought that the word confused Jjaba with Sheila F. re: the garter belt...they spent alot of time together on weekends...had to feel sorry for the poor girl...she "couldn't get no satisfaction" at MSU. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1303 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: Sheila hated older boys who lived on the westside even though she was the Mumford fox. J-boy JUST wore a garter belt and no other clothing... I know you guys in the dorm at WMU had a tough time getting dates ... I know ... I Know there was some type of nursing school located in Benton Harbor that dated one guy at WMU... Why would a clown control the phones and mail.... so he worked behind the desk in the dorm ... didn't WMU have phones in each room ... ???? ES 61 Proudly, A Columbus Rocket Basketball team member | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1621 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: As a matter of fact there were two nursing schools in Kzoo...Bronson and Borgess...the latter was affiliated in some way with Nazareth College (Catholic girls school)...the students from either school were great dates...they were worked like slaves so a movie and a six-pack after was like heaven to them. For a couple of years two buddies and I had an apartment just down the street from the Bronson nurses' dorm...those were two great years. As a matter of fact in the late 50's and early 60's the dorms did not have phones in each room...calls came into the dorm switchboard which then relayed them to a hall phone on each floor/wing...my recollection is that there were 2-3 phone booths on each floor/wing...anyone walking by the phone when it rang would answer and yell down the hall for the recipient...having a room close to the phones was both a plus and a minus. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 178 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: We were much more hi-tech at Alma. Instead of someone having to yell down the hall, we had speakers on each floor so the guy at the switchboard could just page you. That way everyone knew you were getting a call. If nobody ever got paged, he must be the dorm nerd. |
