 
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 941
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 2:40 pm: |    |
The blacktop was my favorite for the very reason JC mentioned about behind the convent. For most of the time I was a home lunch kid so making a bee line to the black top after gulping down a soup and sandwich was real quick. It seemed the very best games of keep away and touch football happened during my 5 and 6th grades on the blacktop... least favorite was Rex..way too many kids just milling around on too small of an area..besides that's where my red rover accident happened...a bump on the forehead the size of a golf ball. |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 3433
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 2:47 pm: | |
I think another reason I liked the Convent blacktop is that is what I remember for 7th and 8th grades and we 'ruled the school'. Also, it included the Maddelein Street and the popsicle guy parked his wagon on Rex and Maddelein. I'm still a sucker for blue popsicles.
To paraphrase that dumb Tom Cruise movie' You had me at the bomb pop' |
Zitro
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Post Number: 1710
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 2:56 pm: | |
Try the lemonade ones they have now they are the bomb. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3434
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 2:58 pm: | |
I used to make those at home, as well as my own Vernor's ones. Now, Vernors popsicles are cool. They freeze the fizz.
Ever have Italian Ice? Grape is my favorite in that |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 418
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:00 pm: | |
JC, ever had the raspberry or lemon sorbet @ Moores in Marlette? |
Zitro
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Post Number: 1711
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:02 pm: | |
The Italian Ice at Fazoli's isn't bad you can have them add your own fresh fruit. Talk about a head freeze though |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3436
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:03 pm: | |
No, but I have had their Blue Moon ice cream and some other flavors. I'll have to check out the sorbets. That is if they are still open?? |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1286
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:05 pm: | |
Remember when the Good Humor truck used to carry Rootbeer Popsicles...love to have one of those right now. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 1712
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:09 pm: | |
What was the ice cream Good Humor had with the chocolate candy on the inside you had to work you way to? Kind of like a Captain Crunch bar. Or was it Captain Crunch?
(Message edited by zitro on August 26, 2008) |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3438
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:10 pm: | |
Z, A Chocolate Eclair bar. 2nd only to the Toasted Almond bar. Yum |
Zitro
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Post Number: 1713
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:12 pm: | |
Yes Chocolate Eclair!! |
Zitro
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Post Number: 1714
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:14 pm: | |
Where's Laing? |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3439
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:16 pm: | |
I think they still sell the Good Humor's mentioned above in grocery stores |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 408
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:22 pm: | |
Toasted Almond rules -
Rex first, then the Blacktop at 7 mile. My Mom was one of the lunch moms - and field trip Mom. She always wrote the nuns a note telling them how good the kids in her group behaved - that would have included you J!
Remember when we had the fire-drills and geez, the sheer mass of students exiting that building. I wonder if they ever checked if all 1000+ kids got out? |
12468_laing
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Post Number: 131
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:23 pm: | |
laing be here - working like a dog. just to give my 2 cents, the rapport club was a get together club for senior citizens. I thought st jude owned both the houses by the black top across 7 mile from the school, but at least the one on the corner for sure. was in it once for a white elephant sale - remember those?? favorite playground would be that blacktop - remember using the lines for the parking spots as out of bounds for football at lunch time. skinned many a knee out there and ripped many a knee out of the pant legs. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 409
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:36 pm: | |
THAT'S how I remember going into the Rapport club the White Elephant sale. I was wondering why in the world I would know what the inside looked like! Thanks, Laing |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3440
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:39 pm: | |
I remember taking food over there for a funeral. The Altar Society ladies always made casseroles for the 'after-party' if it was held at the church, so I'm sure that's why I got in there. |
12468_laing
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Post Number: 132
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
i remember back in 3rd grade during one of those canned food drives. someone in my class had a can of something in a brown paper bag and was swinging it, till it connected with my right eye. remember laying down outside the office off the rex courtyard waiting for my mom to take me home. gees, if that would happen now, kids would just suck it up. cfg, seems i remember your mom standing out on the blacktop. mine had that duty sometimes, too. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 410
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 4:11 pm: | |
I know the Moms enjoyed working the playground duty. Since my Mom didn't drive, she always volunteered for anything around the school since she could walk there. |
Eastburn
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Post Number: 419
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 4:13 pm: | |
JC, Moores is still open. New owners keep it open year round. Smaller servings, though. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 411
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 4:55 pm: | |
Moore's was always the ice cream break on the way up to PA. We all had our Eat Moore's t-shirts and you just "skipped a step" if you went up to PA and didn't stop! |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 250
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 7:25 pm: | |
I worked on Meals On Wheels when I was in high School with my then friend Katie at St. Raymonds. I always found it very rewarding especially seeing these people look so appreciatively at me and a feeling that they were cared for. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1287
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 11:09 pm: | |
J, I did some searching online, and someone said they have the root beer popsicles at Walmarts. Next time I'm there checking for special edition Wheaties boxes, I will definitely meander over to the frozen section. I sure hope I'm not on a wild goose chase. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3442
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 11:22 pm: | |
Those sound really good. Walmart is not my favorite place, but they carry Blue Bunny products, which I think are made in Iowa, and they have the best Bomb Pops and Pistachio Ice Cream around.
A good combo for popsicles is Root Beer and Banana |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 251
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 3:03 am: | |
The past couple of days I've had Ben And Jerry's Cinnamon Bun ice cream and Cheesecake Brownie ice cream. We have Blue Bell down here in Texas and they have a few neat flavours like Candy Shop, Cake Batter, and Cantaloupe. I loved this one place on 94 heading towards Jackson which was right off the freeway. You could see it from 94. They had the creamiest lemon ice cream. I also love frozen custard and Sanders ice cream and milk chocolate hot fudge sauce is to die for.
KR: As long as you're sending the stuff from school, send me a case of Sanders cans of hot fudge sauce.
I'm going to look for those root beer thingies at Wally World. You could probably even make them at home with some good root beer or for that matter any soda pop. Mmmmm....Faygo Redpop and Rock And Rye popsicles! How about a Cream Soda one? Dr. Pepper? Cherry Coke? Or make some really good southern sweet tea with Louisianne Tea and freeze it. And at Christmas you could make egg nog and freeze it in popsicles. Take some club soda, add in a slight couple drops of cinnamon flavouring and a bit of red food colour.
OK.....I'm now stepping away from the recipe box.  |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1288
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 9:05 am: | |
I'll take an extra large Baskin Robbin's root beer float with Rocky Road ice cream. I wonder if that store is still open on Morang, near Cadieux. Do you know, Laing? You must have ridden your bike over there a thousand times or more back in the day. |
12468_laing
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Post Number: 133
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 9:39 am: | |
am not sure about that baskin robbins. i used to go there a lot back in my arthur junior high days. loved the rocky road. haven't been to detroit since 2004, but think it was closed by then. i also remember another place on a corner by St. Brendans. a friend worked there, and they had one of those old soda shop set ups - ice cream was much better. down here in tn, baskin robbins are opening with a dunkin donut place in the same building. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1289
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 9:55 am: | |
We have one of those. When they first opened they had the Rocky Road but no root beer. Now they carry root beer, but it's under the counter in bottles, I think just for me. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 1717
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 10:27 am: | |
Talk about a belly buster. BR & DD in the same building! You gain 5 lbs just walking in the door without eating anything. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 412
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 10:41 am: | |
There used to be an A&W on Morang near Cadieux. It may have been almost across from Pecars and Kavans? Maybe not that far down. I used to work at Indian Village Cleaners, next to the Pagoda restaurant - never got tired of Chinese food. 16 yrs. old and they gave me the keys to close the place and set the alarm! |