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Post Number: 486
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 12:33 pm: |    |
7&K & KR, was it "trick or treat" or "help the poor" for Halloween on Eastwood? |
Jcole
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Post Number: 3995
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 12:38 pm: | |
It was definitely 'Help the Poor'. Only nerds said 'Trick or Treat' |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2147
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 1:14 pm: | |
Unless you said "Trick or Treat , smell my feet, give me something good to eat" |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 1102
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 1:24 pm: | |
Help the Poor (my pants are tor(n), give me some money to buy some more). OK Easburn, now that JC set you up, what was the halloween mantra in your neck of the woods during your era? |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1520
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 2:30 pm: | |
On Eastwood, if you were out trick or treating, and were old enough to be considered a nerd for saying "trick or treat", the case may have already been made. That said, the older kids got the most loot...perhaps because they cut across lawns and generally ran faster, and possibly partly because the adults were just sucking up so you wouldn't come back later and wax their windows or egg their house. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2149
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 3:43 pm: | |
The older kids would cheat and cut across lawns. The big bullies. Good point on the sucking up, nothing made me more mad than an apple, back when you didn't have to worry about razors. |
Eastburn
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Post Number: 487
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 4:30 pm: | |
No one ever said anything other than "Help the poor!". I think that's a uniquely Detroit thing. We only heard "trick or treat" on TV & in movies.
Our 2 favorite Halloween tricks were to put a few pebbles in a beer/pop can & toss it on someone's roof. Made a pretty good racket when it rolled down. Then there was the piece de resistance - the flaming bag of dog poop on the front porch. That was saved for particularly onerous neighbors. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2150
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 4:36 pm: | |
A classic scene from Billy Madison |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1523
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 7:01 pm: | |
Of course, there was always the hit and run doorbell ring for those less odorous neighbors. |
Chitaku
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Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 2168
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 - 8:22 pm: | |
anyone remember Mr. Bass and his favorite saying? "get off my grass?" |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1526
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 12:07 am: | |
Kitty corner across Eastwood and the Kelly alley from Colonial Savings Bank...I remember the Bass family...nice people...was in their house a few times. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 1105
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 2:25 am: | |
Let's see the Bass family: Paul and Mr. Bass both very active in the SJ choir for years. Cathy graduated from SJS around 1969. The triangular lot they had off the Kelly alley was nicely kept up with hedges, shade trees, and beautiful lawn. I could see why "get off the grass" was frequently repeated |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2159
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 9:01 am: | |
I thought everyone spouted the term "Keep off the Grass" in the 60's. |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 489
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 9:24 am: | |
Yea, and a couple of years later everyone was smoking it. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4017
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 9:38 am: | |
Charlie Chaplin's son, Michael, wrote a book called'I couldn't smoke the grass on my father's lawn'
That's the ultimate 'Keep off the Grass' |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1529
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:38 pm: | |
Years ago I spent a few weekends helping a guy build a house out in the sticks in western Wayne. It was just an acre lot full of weeds to start. So this guy plowed it all down, poured his foundation and built his house.
Well late the following spring this group of 20 or so motorcycle riders pulled up to the corner and they're like "what happened to our shit, dude"? |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 490
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:50 pm: | |
And we're still are waiting for the answer. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2163
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:53 pm: | |
Sensi? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4023
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:56 pm: | |
Must have been |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2164
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 1:59 pm: | |
Good shit.
So I've heard |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4024
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 2:34 pm: | |
Yeah, I've heard that too. Don't really know. Just heard |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1531
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 7:29 am: | |
Getting back to Bass's grass, they did have a nice lawn on one of those primo lots off the alley servicing the Kelly duplexes.
I wonder why the east-west alleys within "the triangle" were mostly closed off giving the home owners more usable property, while the alleys off Morang and Kelly remained open.
Maybe more of those garages opened up to the alley instead of the busy street. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 1107
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 9:09 am: | |
7: true...access to houses on Morang and Kelly mostly had garage entrances in the back. The 7 mile duplexes had garage openings in front. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1535
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 8:05 pm: | |
Too bad soooo many trees died from dutch elm disease. It was a blast raking their leaves into a pile, jumping into them for awhile, and then burning them at the curb.
I also remember people burning stuff in their backyard or alley in what looked like a standard metal garbage can, but with holes and rusty looking. I'm guessing that was garbage burning in those cans, and not leaves. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4121
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 8:28 pm: | |
I loved raking and burning leaves. We always did it in the evening after dark, and there'd be piles of leaves up and down the street, glowing red in the dark autumn evening, with the rakers standing in the street, leaning on their rakes, talking and laughing with each other until the embers burnt downs to white ashes, and it was time to go in and do homework |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 499
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 11:07 pm: | |
We'd wrap apples in tin foil & bury them in the burning leaf pile. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1539
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
EB, was this to create a pleasing aroma, or was there a mischievous intent to this? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4132
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:47 am: | |
My guess is that the intent was to eat a baked apple. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1541
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 9:17 pm: | |
I didn't rule out a good intention. It just wouldn't surprise me if the apple was supposed to boil up in there, and explode in someone's face when they poked it with a metal rake. |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 501
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:25 pm: | |
7, I'm hurt that you'd think I'd hold such evil intent. Just wanted a baked apple. |