  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5336 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.92.83 |
Here is today's P.D.J. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 321 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Fascinating viewing; radically different from the finished product. Your findings never fail to amaze me, Aiw. Good job. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3173 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 192.220.139.2 |
Although jjaba has never been within miles of Eastland, this is some mighty fine scholarship. AIW comes over the border and tells us more than we'll ever imagine ourselves, eh. Thank you very much. jjaba, on his bike to Northland, 1954. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1024 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225 |
Good old Eastland!! I just came back from a whirlwind trip there---Marshall Fields for a couple of bottles of Chateau Michelle red wine, (good price), over to Sears to check out a closeout on last years power mowers, and onto Lowes for a propane tank refill and some weather stripping. Sure beats driving out to the Macomb Mall on Gratiot and a lot closer too. I wonder who that guy was I saw in the lower level of Marshall Field's wearing sunglasses and checking out neckties. He was wearing a Cass Tech letter sweater,mumbling something about having 3,000 posts on the Forum,and therefore thought he was entitled to a better price,and asking the sales person where he could catch the Dexter bus home....I wonder.....no, it just couldn't be..... Looked familiar though..... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3176 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 192.220.139.2 |
Rock, that was jjaba. What, no Dexter bus over there in Grosse Pointe? Or am I in Harper Woods? You get jjaba East of Woodward, and it is another world over there. Does Eastland have a special fish fly eradication program? jjaba didn't see any. Glad The Rock has his convenient place to do his one-stop shopping. He forgot to tell us that he fast walks there at 8 am before the stores close with the pink Polo shirt, white shorts and his Sperry Docksiders without socks, even in dead of winter. jjaba, Westsider, we love ya Rock. Thanks again for the nice 3,000 post book gift. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 322 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Jjaba, on the east side buying at retail? Nope, I don't think so. Ray1936, soon to move from Las Vegas to Henderson.... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3178 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Ray1936, not to threadjack on Eastland, but Henderson is really barren, eh. You must really love the hot. How's the newsboy service out there? (jjaba asks as if there's a newspaper in Henderson, NV., population 525 on a good day with more jackrabbits than people.) But don't kid yourself, there have always been Jewish merchants at Eastland and all over the Eastside. jjaba dated Gail Karp, daughter of Karp Drugs on Gratiot. jjaba, never buy at retail. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 324 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Henderson is currently the third largest city in Nevada, behind Las Vegas and Reno. Of course, it's part of the Vegas metro area. The house we're having built is so far south of the center of town that we're not even on any maps of the area I can find. Sort of like leaving Detroit for Trenton.  | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2425 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105 |
Eastland was to be built first, before Northland, but shortages of steel due to the Korean War postponed the project, and it was ultimately redesigned in the fashion of Northland. I think the consensus is that the orignal design would have been a disaster. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5339 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.92.83 |
Had it been built as planned, it would have been quite unique. It also would have presented major problems for the later enclosure. So even if it had been built, it probably would have been demolished by now. The plans I posted were publsihed in 1951, so they were pretty much completed at that time. I didn't even think about Korea as the reason why it took 6 more years to be built... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3180 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
MikeM reminds us that history must be viewed in context. Thanks. jjaba. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1025 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225 |
Where is "context"? Is that the fourth largest city in Nevada? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3188 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Shortages of steel is why Eastland got built after Northland. That's the context of Detroit, Westside trumping Eastside. Somes The Rock acts the donkey. Don't act the donkey Rock. AIW gives us serious research and you act the donkey. jjaba, LOL. | ||
Jdmdetroit Member Username: Jdmdetroit Post Number: 146 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 170.20.11.116 |
Very cool. Thanks! | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1026 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225 |
Goodness.... Mr. up-tight Westsider. So, the "context" is Westside vs. Eastside? I doubt it. If that is what you get out of AIW's research, you have missed the mark. Better read Mikem's post again. I thought a little chochmeh wouldn't hurt. A Sof! A Sof! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3189 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 192.220.139.2 |
The Rock with his chochmehs. That Yiddische word is a family favorite. We have in common Northland and Eastland. Both have seen their share of the Detroit angst. Miles and miles apart, but still that same Detroit ruins angst. Novi or Grosse Pointe Rosa Parks Rib Joint, Mack to Cadillac Woodward to Mackinac, We got them low-down around the DEtroit town blues. jjaba, Westside Dexter Ave. Bluesman |
