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Post Number: 839
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:01 pm: |    |
In my days at SJS, I remember coming home in the afternoon for a nice Hawaiian punch...the good kind. Does this still come in the half-gallon cans?
Go Jets! |
Jcole
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Post Number: 2091
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:04 pm: | |
I think it's in plastic jugs now, not cans. And several flavors. I always liked the original or the grape.
Grape and Cheeto's were one of my favorite after school snacks, as well as hangover cures, later in life.
Go Jet's cheerleaders |
Zitro
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Post Number: 830
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:05 pm: | |
You mean the kind that if you didn't drink it all in a couple of days would start to rust? |
Jcole
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Post Number: 2092
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:09 pm: | |
And you get that delicious tinny taste, as well as flecks of rust |
Zitro
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Post Number: 831
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:14 pm: | |
Nothing like the good ole' days. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 832
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:17 pm: | |
Remember having fruit cellars in your basement. I loved going sown there and grabbing a jar of something that had been sitting there for months and stirring up spiders the size of a baseball.
(Message edited by zitro on June 27, 2008) |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 241
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:23 pm: | |
Still have the fruit cellar in the basement - currently spiderless - but many jars of "put-up" jams, jellies, etc., - as well as the standard crap that you can't part with because you'll definitely need it sometime! The New Era Chip Can, now THAT I'll use again sometime!
K&K - the official food of the SJS alumni slackers. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 2093
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:23 pm: | |
Our fruit cellar was originally designed to be the coal bin, where they dumped the coal for the furnace down the chute. We got a gas furnace before I was born, so they turned that into the fruit cellar. I swear, until we left there in 73, there was still coal dust filtering up out of the floor. That, and the spiders made for a fun trip downstairs to get the canned tomatoes. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 833
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:27 pm: | |
CFG: It is so decreed: K&K - The Official Food of the SJS alumni slackers |
Zitro
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Post Number: 834
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:29 pm: | |
My older brother would love to turn the lights off on me when I was on the side of the basement with that big old honking furnace. I swear that thing was alive! |
Jcole
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Post Number: 2094
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:30 pm: | |
I had a real phobia about our basement, and I can even tie it into he SJS thread. Does anyone remember the old chalk and pencil drawings of President Washington and Lincoln that hung in the grade school in the early 60's? When they decided to get rid of those, Frank the janitor gave them to my dad and he hung them downstairs. At about that time, we had a total eclipse of the sun, so it must have been 63 or 62. My older sister and her boyfriend used to sit in the basement and neck, and I would go down and bother them all the time. Finally, Bob got fed up and told me that if I kept coming down, on the day of the eclipse, Abe would come out of the frame and take me back inside with him and I would live in his eyes forever. From that day on until I was 17, I would not go into the basement unless someone went down and turned on the lights or went down with me. I had nightmares for years that one of our greatest presidents was out to get me and I literally couldn't look at his picture til I was an adult.
Thanks, sis |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 840
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 12:44 pm: | |
Rust flakes, tin cans, coal bins, fruit cellars, spiders, Frank, old honkin' furnaces, pictures of dead presidents...if this ain't SJ nostalgia, I don't know what is.
(Message edited by 7andkelly on June 27, 2008) |
Zitro
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Post Number: 835
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:20 pm: | |
Here's my creepiest basement story, not trying to one up JC because your's is a good one.
It's 3rd grade and our teacher Mrs. Huget tells us about how Fr. Marquette is entombed in the basement of St. Annes Church. She explains her husband and her asked at the rectory to go into the basement to see it.
That summer, Tom Godmire and Chuck Stepp and I decide to take little bike ride. Mrs. Huget had mentioned St. Annes was down near the Ambassador Bridge, I'd been downtown a few times with my parents and I knew kind of where the bridge was in relationship to Tiger Stadium. So we had down Gratiot on our bikes in search of St. Annes.
We end up on this railroad trestle and finally I see the bridge and eventually found our way to the church. We knock on the rectory door and I tell the priest why were there and he asks us where we're from. I tell him the NE side and he understandably is surprised.
We go into the church with the Reverend and I remember there being all of these crutches up by the altar and supposedly they were from people who were healed from praying and didn't need them anymore.
He leads us to the door that went down into this basement, he turns on the light and tells us to head on down. We get about half way down and off to the left there's this big hole the wall and I could see there were picks and shovels and dirt, just then the Good Reverend turns the lights out on us!••• PITCH blackness! It seemed he left them off for hours but it was only seconds. We turn around and he's laughing to beat hell.
Somehow he coaxed up to continue on and when we got to the bottom we turned right instead of left and the area where Fr. Marquette was entombed was all tiled in from the wall and his grave marker was on it. Nice guy huh?
We ended up going to Lafayette Coney Island and to Cobo Hall to see the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame too. All at about what were we then 8-9 years old?
I swear I didn't tell my parents about this until I was 30 and my mother almost fainted when I did. |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:28 pm: | |
Z, it's no wonder you're not a big religion booster, now is it? That was just cruel.
We did the craziest things as kids, stuff that would get any normal kid today killed. The viaduct you were on was probably that little beauty that is next to the train station where all the homeless sleep. You can see Ste. Anne's from there.
I used to get on my bike and just go to see whatever took my fancy, and apparently you did, too.
Did you ever tell Mrs. Huget about your field trip? |
Eastburn
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Post Number: 217
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:35 pm: | |
Z - that priest was a jerk. Wouldn't have wanted to be one of his altar boys.
My older sister & I used to take the bus down Gratiot then walk all the way down E. Grand Boulevard to Belle Isle to spend the day. That was OK with the folks.
Seemed we ventured out great distances on our bikes. The only caveat was to always have a dime in our pocket to call home from a pay phone if we got in trouble.
I'm not sure my grandkids are allowed to go around the block without supervision.
We were blessed to grow up in the 50s & 60s. |
7andkelly
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:35 pm: | |
Great stories! |
Zitro
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Post Number: 836
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:41 pm: | |
JC: No way! She would have ratted me out to my parents. We knew we shouldn't be doing what we did. That was a secrest kept for many a year before divulging it.
I feel emancipated! |
Zitro
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Post Number: 837
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:47 pm: | |
EB: Once you got past the Blvd on Gratiot things were kind of dicey, it's not like it was all just safe even then. |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 593
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:49 pm: | |
JC and Z; Those are both great stories. You could have been writers for Night Gallery.
Z: Gabriel Richard is entombed at St. Anne. Is Fr. Marquette also? That was an incredible adventure to St. Anne especially from north east Detroit to the foot of the Ambassador bridge, especially considering your age and mode of transportation. |
Zitro
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:54 pm: | |
KR: You're right is was Gabriel Richard not Fr. Marquette. Has anyone else ever visited his crypt? |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:54 pm: | |
I remember going to Grand Circus when I was somewhat older, probably 15, and by then it was pretty dicey. There was this old woman dressed in a white habit dancing in the fountain with her arms above her head and praising the Lord. It was wierd, but mesmerizing. |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:58 pm: | |
Also, does anyone remember that even though we did these extreme bike and bus trips all over the city without too many reprecussions, not too many of them went to the west side. It was like we hit Woodward and the great divide stopped us, unless it was Tiger stadium or the Coney's. Only school or church trips got us to Edgewater and Walled Lake.
We were such Eastsiders. |
Eastburn
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Post Number: 219
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 2:59 pm: | |
I think I was out drinking with that gal the night before you saw her.
I don't think I married that one. |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:02 pm: | |
Well, if you did, the booze washed it away, so no harm, no foul |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 594
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:14 pm: | |
JC: The west side was like another city. The downtown stuff like Coneys or even Tiger stadium I don't believe came under the umbrella of the great divide. Edgewater Park, as you pointed out, seemed to be the only reason to cross Woodward or John R. St. Mary of Redford was the only parish on the west side I heard about as a kid....that parish was similar to SJ as far as a hugh school enrollment and explosive population growth in the far corner of the city.. You're right...you could go any where with in the city. All that was needed was bus fare and transfers and a vague familiarity of bus stops. ....the DSR had buses every 10 minutes so not to worry if you missed the bus. |
Zitro
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:19 pm: | |
From my standpoint as far back as I can remember we used to go the Fireman's Field Day every year and they would have contest between the West and Eastsiders, so it was cemented in at an early age the West Side was bad. |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:21 pm: | |
We used to go to the Police field day, and there was always the tug o' war between East/West. Same deal. |
Kellyroad
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:21 pm: | |
Z: been by St. Anne several times (the mexican restaurant area). There is a plaque designating St. Anne as a historical site and detailing it as the oldest parish in Detroit (2nd oldest in the U.S.A.) and housing the tomb of GR....never been inside. |
Zitro
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:30 pm: | |
It would interesting to know if they still have the crutches and such up by the altar |
Jcole
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| | Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:40 pm: | |
Someday when I go down, I'll take a sidetrip and see if they'll let me in. The sad thing is you probably have to make an appointment.
I think I'm doing a job down there is a few weeks on Woodward and Jefferson, so we'll see. |