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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:29 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ALL: Where was the "air raid" or "bomb shelter" located. THe hatch door has been correctly identified. Where was it located?
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:32 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I took a guess already, I guess it was wrong?
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:36 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The only other place I knew an air raid shelter existed was under the steps in the basement but this door looks like it's outside due to the corrosion of the metal.
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:42 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Cfg!
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

CFG: Does St. Jude keep all their valuables locked up? I hope so, because it looks like it's just a matter of time before the thieves go after the goods. Holy Trinity just got wiped out. Bet that stuff is already melted down. What a crying shame.
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Z; I thought the very same thing. A tabernacle (with consecrated hosts for the home bound), brass bell, chalices....What a crying shame indeed!http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=2008809100310
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hint on air raid hatch door location: Say your rosary
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That would suggest to me the Maddelein courtyard.
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12468_laing
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

bet it is in the aisle from the maddelein courtyard behind the gym.
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Laing: not behind the gym.
Where is the Maddelein courtyard?
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The area in front of the convent in between the church and the school.
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12468_laing
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

there was an outside passage way between the rear of the gym and the wall of rm 129.
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

LAING: That's not it, but close

Z: If you're referring to the back of the convent as the front of the convent then, which is what I think you think I think, then the front of the convent is the back of the convent unless you think the front of the convent is the back of the convent...."AFLAC"...Where's Yogi Berra when you need him?

BTW, correct guess, I think
Now on to the final pic
remember identify all 7 with locations
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded."
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Jcole
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Z, are you talking about the Maddelein blacktop between the church and the eighth grade classrooms?
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes, it's confirmed that where the air raid shelter is on the front backside of the convent on the north end.
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Jcole
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Where?? In the convent, or in the gym, or in the school, or just underground?
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Okay, the last one. The upside down address of where I grew up
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

KR; You've milked this one out for so long I can't remember what we've ID'd already.
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 2:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The one clue we had is that TS lived the closest so I'm going to guess it's the address to Calcaterra's
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 2:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Did he ever say if the pictures were current or not?
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Zitro
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 2:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't remember it was so long ago.
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12468_laing
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 2:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ok folks, i tried and tried. the address 15909 shows up on e 7 mile between Rex and Redmond. Found the addresses for the school and church, so 15909 is east of the church. Is it the number on the rectory? Kellyroad said it is back home, so it must be on the parish campus.
So, here are my choices: #1 is the safe, #2 is the cross on top of the steeple, #3 is a spike on Ty Cobb's foot, #4 is the entrance way to the air raid shelter by the convent, #5 is the drivers training garage at Denby, #6 is Joe Louis' fist downtown, amd #7 is the address of 15909 - the rectory.
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Jcole
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 3:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The parish office 15889 e 7 Mile. I'm guessing that's the rectory.

(Message edited by jcole on September 10, 2008)

(Message edited by jcole on September 10, 2008)
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 4:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

RE: ADDRESS
A SMILE IS A FROWN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
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12468_laing
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 4:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

and that means.......
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Jcole
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 4:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think he means the numbers are upside down.
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12468_laing
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 4:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ah, guess i've done too much slacking today.
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 6:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

JC, alias TS, the intuitive one, also knows it's not next to her old abode. Bring it on home everyone. The numbers and what they represent have been discussed before many times.
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Kellyroad
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Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 6:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Not the rectory