  Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1111 Registered: 04-2007 |
 Eastwood Avenue north side between Rex and Redmond looking east (June 08) | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1543 Registered: 04-2008 |
Looks like Sipost's and Shephard's bungalows, and the Aubrey's colonial, KR. I can probably still name most of the families on both sides of Eastwood from Morang to Kelly from the 60s and 70s. Is the glider still there on their extra large porch? Rode over there on my bike many a time, that's for sure. The awnings are still intact, I see. Notice the indent in the sidewalk. No doubt a wide trunked elm tree was there, and just as sure those are replacement slabs. Nice to see the replacement trees providing significant shade. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1544 Registered: 04-2008 |
Sorry EB, but baked apples were beyond my level of priviledge growing up south of Seven Mile. Raking / burning leaves was a job, and after that we had other jobs waiting. Us boys weren't afforded much time for the culinary arts, although I do remember getting to slop the bar-b-que sauce on the rotating chicken on Sundays. Besides, why would you bury the apple in the leaves when it would get hotter sitting on top of the pile? | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2171 Registered: 04-2008 |
quote: I believe there was an infamous burro scandal that may have lead to this conclusion | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 505 Registered: 03-2008 |
I wasn't there. I don't know anything about it. It never happened. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 506 Registered: 03-2008 |
Besides the mission (which never happened) involved a sombrero. No burros were harmed (or involved) in the execution of this mission. (Which never happened.) | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2172 Registered: 04-2008 |
I'm glad you clarified that kinda, sorta. You wouldn't want the PETA fanatics on your case anyway. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1117 Registered: 04-2007 |
7: Good job on remembering the neighbors who lived on that block in the 60s. That section is still very well maintained. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1118 Registered: 04-2007 |
Speaking of the Aubreys, does anyone from the SJ class of 70 remember the Aubreys? Joyce 1969, Steve either 1970 or 1971 | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1545 Registered: 04-2008 |
I agree, Z...especially Mr. Pita...I like that place. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1546 Registered: 04-2008 |
Remember the house on Eastwood across the alley from Colonial. It was a nice wide, oddly shaped lot. I can't quite recall the name, but I would probably recognize it if I heard it. Next door were the Carions. There were two distinctive features in the front. One was a lantern on a pole in the front lawn, and another was one of those statues of a guy holding a ring for you to tie up your horse. Lawn lanterns were rare in our neighborhood, but I don't remember seeing too many more of those lawn ornaments. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 507 Registered: 03-2008 |
7, the apples were buried in the embers of the burning leaves so as to bake. Now, as to the harsh circumstances of your childhood. I'm looking at the beautiful (even today) brick homes owned by the the affluent south-siders on Eastwood. Take a stroll among the asbestos-sided bungalows inhabited by us poor folks on Eastburn to see what a sustenance level childhood was like :>) | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1120 Registered: 04-2007 |
7: I think they were the Veenstras. Nice folks..they ran an insurance business in their basement. They had a professional office set up...thought it was really neat. They were the "guards" for the Colonial bank after hours. Although many of the Eastwood kids would still climb to the bank roof even though the Veenstras (or Basses from across the street) kept an eye on the place. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1547 Registered: 04-2008 |
EB, again, so sorry to have given even the mere appearance of thinking ill of you. I look forward to trying out your baked apple recipe some day. As for the homes north of Seven, I'm sure a photographer of KR's caliber and quality lenses could shoot up some equally attractive photos of homes up there. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1548 Registered: 04-2008 |
The "Veenstra's". Your memory is astounding KR. And yes they did guard the bank. I'm pretty sure I even got yelled at for making skid marks on Colonial's black top parking lot. | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 225 Registered: 07-2008 |
Steve Aubrey was in the class of 71, Joyce was in 69 - also knew their mother who was a "playground mother". real nice family | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2181 Registered: 04-2008 |
7-Was there a Mike Veenstra? I seem to remember playing ball with a guy by that name. It's amazing how some people have decided to return to these threads now that we've rid them of all the pervs and commies. The Eastside is Trully a safe place once again. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1552 Registered: 04-2008 |
Laing, you're right...Mrs. Aubrey was a Duty Lady. Z, I don't recall a Mike Veenstra living there. Was he older? Mark Carion (MGRHDS) lived next door. I'm sure you remember him. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2183 Registered: 04-2008 |
I think Mike was a year older than me. I may have the last name confused with someone else, I'll have to go through the official WE baseball program. I used to work with Mark in HS. We worked for a company that washed walls. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1560 Registered: 04-2008 |
Nice job cleaning up Heilmann Park, Z. It is indeed, once again, "the dawn of a new day. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1139 Registered: 04-2007 |
Don't recall any Veenstra kids around our age. The whole Carion family (next door to Veenstras) were top drawer. Since this is a Eastwood memories post it would be remiss not to mention Mark. His death in his early twenties due to a diving accident was as I recall the first real tragedy on that street. If you knew Mark you knew his friendly, outgoing, and dynamic personality. He had just graduated from U of D business school and had the world by the tail. There were several young men that lived on that block (between Redmond and Kelly) and attended St. Jude School.....Mark and Brian Carion, Mark and Alan Garavaglia (and older brothers) Paul Bass, Ron Karl(and older brothers) . Occasionally, Mark Carion would head west toward the Redmond intersection and join the rest of the Eastwoodians and the Saratoga/Faricrest groups for touch football. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1568 Registered: 04-2008 |
Sad to read about the death of Tom Tresh, a former Tiger and native Detroiter. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/ne ws?slug=ap-obit-tresh&prov=ap& type=lgns | ||
Eastwood__rex Member Username: Eastwood__rex Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2008 |
Then there were the football games on Eastwood and Rex for those of us that lived west of Rex. Or the touch football at the yellow church that was on Morang at the south end of the triangle. We used to play there right after a good rain. Turned into mud football. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1163 Registered: 04-2007 |
I think your're referring to the St. James Presbyterian church on Morang and Mapleridge...the place where everyone in the triangle went to vote (I wish I could remember the precinct number) | ||
Eastwood__rex Member Username: Eastwood__rex Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yep, That's the place. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1586 Registered: 04-2008 |
I wonder if the house on the NE corner of Saratoga and Redmond still has the cherry tree in the backyard. Sure was rewarding climbing that one. Anyone remember the Sind's (Bill and Catherine) plum tree? That tree bore so much fruit, they had bushels of extra plums which they so kindly bagged up and gave to neighbors and friends up and down Eastwood, Fordham and likely beyond. And there was a couple or more houses with grape vines...one was Mr. Gatow's(sp?) on Fordham in the middle of the block across from the blacktop. There were so many vegetable gardens...easily accessible through alley gates...cucumbers fresh off the vine, bright red tomatoes, onions, chives, raspberries, currants... Plus the free to a smiley, appreciative child extra large sugar cookies from the bakery at 7andkelly. A kid could hardly go hungry in the 60s in the triangle...that's for sure! Not to mention food you would get at your own house. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1166 Registered: 04-2007 |
7: no wonder people in the triangle got guard dogs. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1167 Registered: 04-2007 |
7 and Kelly: regarding the Sinds plum tree...for many years Yours truly ended up being the delivery boy to the neighbors on the block especially between Redmond and Rex. ... never realized how many plumbs a plumb tree could yield until that job. Of course, our family received the mother lode of of the crop in return for the delivery service. They were juicy and sweet. Yes,the cherry tree on Saratoga and Rex yielded an abundance of sweet cherries. During the early to mid 60s many of the alleys were closed. Some of the neighbors took advantage of the extra land with vegetable gardens. With the right amount of fertilizer and proper composting some of those well planted gardens gave the Polla's and Chathams's produce section some competition during the summer months. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1587 Registered: 04-2008 |
KR, guard dogs? I called them my good friends. The only true guard dog I remember from that era area in that area was on the SW corner of Fordham and Redmond (Mr. Shutey's old house?)...Brit, Mr. Bell's German Shepherd. Tragically, Mr. Bell died young, and Brit went soon after. I think Mr. Bell was a Detroit police officer. In addition to his grieving wife, he left a young son named Scotty, and possibly there was an older sister. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1168 Registered: 04-2007 |
7: You rekindled an interesting memory regarding Mr. Shutey(sp?). For anyone living in the triangle in the 50s and early 60s. The Shutey's home of Fordham was known for its garden....actually a minifarm. There wasn't an addition or garage at the time and every square foot of the backyard was used for planting...including corn. Mr Shutey wore overalls and a straw hat. He was the epitome of a farmer. At the time I thought it was a little odd and eccentric but in retrospect he was ahead of his time. Regarding the Bell family, the name Linda rings a _____(*__* sorry) |
