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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 5:30 pm: |    |
What used to be at the NE corner of Outer Dr. and Southfield (I am sure it is the NE corner) Currently this is where the old farmer jack was which is still a grocery store and the Henry Ford / Wayne State Building. Looking at old aerial photos it looks like a unique building with some kind of garden. Does anyone know what was here before the shopping center or have any photos of the corner before today? |
Gistok
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 5:33 pm: | |
Wasn't that the location of a Catholic High School, across the freeway from Mercy College? |
Rustic
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 5:39 pm: | |
Are you talking about the Bertha Fisher site? |
Gary
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Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 5:51 pm: | |
Gistok...the Catholic high school across from Mercy College was Benedictine High. The school closed several years ago, but the building is still there. It's now a charter school. |
Naturalsister
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 6:18 pm: | |
The Northeast corner was definitely the Bertha Fisher Home. It was for retired nuns, I believe. This is near my old neighborhood (Winship Community) which is down Outer Drive closer to Hubbel.
later - naturalsister |
65memories
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 6:57 pm: | |
Northeast corner...Bertha Fisher Home for Nuns
Northwest corner...Mercy College (merged with U. of D., soon to become a WCCC campus)
Southwest corner...St. Scholastic Church and school
Southeast corner...Benedictine High
The intersection was often referred to as "Catholic Corners" |
Neilr
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 8:31 pm: | |
When the Bertha Fisher Home was torn down for the Farmer Jack Supermarket, a small brick gatehouse-like structure was saved and incorporated into the entrance of Farmer Jack's parking lot. It was a nice touch. |
Rfban
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 8:40 pm: | |
When I think about the NE corner of Southfield and Outer Drive I clearly see the old Veterans Hospital. |
Viziondetroit
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 8:44 pm: | |
Rfban, you are thinking about down in Dearborn. |
Charlottepaul
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 8:54 pm: | |
I guess there would be two intersections of Southfield and Outer Drive. Both of them don't by chance happen to have a Farmer Jack on their NE corners, do they?
(Message edited by charlottepaul on December 20, 2006) |
Viziondetroit
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 8:55 pm: | |
There are... |
Naturalsister
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 9:59 pm: | |
Charlottepaul,
The Northeast corner of O/D and S'field in Detroit HAD a Farmer Jack on that corner. The poster of this thread is correct. There is some other grocer there now.
later - naturalsister |
Viziondetroit
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 10:03 pm: | |
Glory Foods |
Detroitplanner
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Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 10:13 pm: | |
Neither have a Farmer Jacks |
Viziondetroit
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Post Number: 993
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 11:21 pm: | |
The one at S-field and O Drive had a Farmer Jack PRIOR to Food Basics which closed and Glory Foods opened. |
Pamequus
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Post Number: 94
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 10:18 am: | |
Well, this will be dating myself, but I went to Mercy High School at that corner, for two years, before they built the "new" school in Farmington. That corner and all it's buildings is a part of my memory of the day President Kennedy was killed. I was at school. They sent us all home and I recall walking along Southfield thinking things just didn't look or feel the same. I believe I was 14. |
Danny
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| | Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 5:43 pm: | |
Next to the where the old Bertha Fisher building for the retired Catholic Nuns is the 3 neighborhood blocks of College Park/Brightmooresque ranch homes and wood frame bungalows. After it went downhill since the late 1970s, the congregation from Fellowship Chapel bought the first 3 to the three city blocks north of 6 Mile Rd. to build their church. The rest of the blocks further north on Outer Drive Ave. were still blighted until the develop came to propose a new single family housing. |
Fareastsider
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Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 8:55 pm: | |
Thanks for all the info. Just yesterday When I was pulling into that plaza i was looking at that original structure described earlier. I thought there is no way a developer put that in when this was built it was to nice. That is what made me wonder if it was there before the stores were built |