Easydoesit Member Username: Easydoesit
Post Number: 11 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 69.246.122.172
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:29 am: | |
http://www.frezza.cz28.com/det roit/ (pic in the 2nd row, 3rd column labeled pic00012) excuse me if I may sound ignorant, and I know the pic says "times square" and I know its in Detroit, but WHERE is "times sqare" detroit located? Is it a particular building? Is it a section of downtown? Please help me because I'm so confused. Again, excuse me if I sound ignorant. |
Andyguard73 Member Username: Andyguard73
Post Number: 10 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 64.25.200.14
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:39 am: | |
Times Square is a road connecting Grand River and Cass Ave. There's a little triangular park along side of it. |
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 559 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:48 am: | |
The Detroit Times building used to be there - one of the old now defunct newspapers. Jjaba knows more... |
Easydoesit Member Username: Easydoesit
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 69.246.122.172
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 2:31 am: | |
ohhh!!! thanks alot you guys. i thought you all were going to attack me. |
Gumby Member Username: Gumby
Post Number: 934 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 3:23 am: | |
well if it makes you feel better. YOU IDIOT |
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo
Post Number: 544 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 194.138.39.56
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 4:18 am: | |
Times Square is where the Detroit Times (the former Detroit news paper) was located. |
Cafe Member Username: Cafe
Post Number: 1213 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 84.162.41.239
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 5:54 am: | |
There is a people mover stop there too. |
Ilovedetroit Member Username: Ilovedetroit
Post Number: 2124 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.246.57.75
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 8:44 am: | |
Times Square use to be a famous back in the early 90s for having a VERY hip gay bar there called "Times Square"...it was (at one time) a very cool place to be seen by gay and straight. But it went out in the late 90s I believe. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 927 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.168
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 12:02 pm: | |
wsu |
Jsmyers Member Username: Jsmyers
Post Number: 1483 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 209.131.7.68
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 12:43 pm: | |
That is a great building! I'm a huge fan of transit, but I'm really irritated at the design of the new transit center, that will take out streets and cover up a park created by the 1805/6 Woodward plan, but LEAVE the surface parking lot located where that building used to stand. BTW - Did the park used to be called Times Square? I think it has a different official name now. |
Jsmyers Member Username: Jsmyers
Post Number: 1484 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 209.131.7.68
| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 12:47 pm: | |
BTW2 - How much things have changed since those pictures where taken. Especially his computer! |
Rayraydetroit Member Username: Rayraydetroit
Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 67.72.98.45
| Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 12:26 pm: | |
Times Square Park is currently Robert L. Hurt Memorial Park. Hurt was an early African American exec with Michigan Bell who died a few years ago. Interestingly, his son Robert is a noted jazz bass player who has played with Geri Allen (nee Detroit Cass Tech) et al. At the north end of the park is a big boulder and a tree, "Wish Tree" planted by Yoko Ono in 2000. She is a friend of Gil Silverman who owns that beautifully restored brick building (400 Grand River). He was featured last week in Crain's Detroit Business as a major art collector and real estate investor. He has a sizable collection on the top floor of that building. |
Ventura67 Member Username: Ventura67
Post Number: 9 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.245.93.12
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 6:53 pm: | |
Did anyone else notice the size of those cars in that photo! HUGE I say. Every last one of them with Detroit origins, at a time when Detroit used to know how to build a CAR! |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 148 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 129.9.163.234
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7:00 pm: | |
Yeah, and there was no poverty, crime, abandoned buildings, scrapping, or scab labor! |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3466 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7:19 pm: | |
56packman musta forgotten the skid row on W. Michigan Avenue, the cheesey hotels on Cass Avenue, and open prostitution up and down John R. and Brush Sts. Detroit still knows how to make a car, the onliest problem, nobody wants to buy them. jjaba. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 2999 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.236.182.95
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
Close but no cigar.
quote:Times Square Park is currently Robert L. Hurt Memorial Park
Robert L. Hurt Memorial Park is the park shown in the photo across the street from Times Square. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 149 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 24.208.234.52
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 8:13 pm: | |
Jjaba, Packman was making joke. i.e. "rose colored asses" |
Ventura67 Member Username: Ventura67
Post Number: 10 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.245.93.12
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 9:46 pm: | |
Hey Jjaba, Sure, Detroit may know how to MAKE a car, but they certainly don't know how to BUILD a car anymore. I'm not talking SUVs, minivans, Hummers, sportscars, etc. I'm talking CARS, like those big, honkin' 4,000 lb. sedans and two door hardtops like in that picture (and nearly all with a V8). There is nothing safer or more boldly designed than an acre and a half of hood that kids can play baseball on! I mean, GM or Chrysler don't even make real "cars" anymore and Ford's is anemic. Don't the suburban cops look pretty silly in Explorers and Impalas? |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3472 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 1:38 am: | |
Ventura67 tells it like it tis. Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day... (with a nod to Mary Hopkins) jjaba, Proudly Westside. (on the hood of daddy's '51 Pontiac, forest green for-door.) |