  Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 193 Registered: 01-2007 |
 Does anyone know what stadium this is? Although it looks similar to Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, I don't think it is. For a larger version of the photo, please click here Ookpik | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2007 |
I was thinking Keyworth too. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3270 Registered: 10-2003 |
Typical small town, WPA-built stadium. Could be anywhere. Pontiac? Port Huron? Ypsilanti? Background looks too rural to be anywhere in Detroit. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 63 Registered: 11-2006 |
No I believe Keyworth is much larger | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 445 Registered: 03-2006 |
It looks a little like Wisner Stadium in Pontiac. Though its been years since I have been their. | ||
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias Post Number: 452 Registered: 02-2005 |
i would suggest wisner stadium as well, but i too haven't been there in years. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 841 Registered: 07-2004 |
Those rails in the ground suggest the photo dates from before 1957. Actually, what stadia were that near a streetcar line, with that slope to the land? | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1355 Registered: 01-2005 |
Those are not rails. That is a wall with parallel decorative indentations. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 842 Registered: 07-2004 |
D'oh! Now I have to find my parallel decorative indentation wall guide. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 817 Registered: 10-2003 |
Looks like an orchard behind the one end zone. Note that the goal posts are not the single support kind (and look like they might be on the goal line) so I'm guessing that it's pre (about) 1965. Whatever it is, it can't be too proud of itself. No "Home Of The...." on the press box. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 194 Registered: 01-2007 |
The photo is from the late 1930's or early 1940's. Ookpik | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1835 Registered: 04-2005 |
I really like the Keep Off sign, stunk in the a sewer grate.  | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 845 Registered: 07-2004 |
Is that Mr. Bill hiding out in the orchard? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 848 Registered: 07-2004 |
I dunno. Could be Sluggo. So this photo couldn't be any earlier than 1977.  | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1215 Registered: 04-2006 |
I think thats a wall, not a streetcar track | ||
Swede1934 Member Username: Swede1934 Post Number: 9 Registered: 04-2007 |
Does anyone have a photo of the old (pre-1960) football stadium at the University of Detroit at McNichols and Livernois? | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 14 Registered: 03-2007 |
I'm thinking the photo is of Wisner in Pontiac. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1358 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'm thinking that Ookpik has finally stumped us. | ||
Redvetred Member Username: Redvetred Post Number: 7 Registered: 04-2007 |
Could be the Port Huron Memorial Stadium but looks a lot like Wisner Stadium in Pontiac. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 818 Registered: 10-2003 |
If the photo was from the '30's or early '40's, that would rule out Port Huron Memorial which was built in '48. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1849 Registered: 04-2005 |
I do not believe it is Wisner.  Google Earth | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 819 Registered: 10-2003 |
There's an interesting article about old Michigan schoolboy stadiums here: www.mhsaa.com/services/library /stadiums.pdf It looks a bit like the Fordson stadium pictured in the article..... | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1850 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think you nailed it Douglasm! notice the left shadow of the turret. The rest of the photo shows houses to the left, but the original could be from way before they were built. From the 1949 DTE photomap  CULMA WSU | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1851 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oops! nope, not it!. there are 4 entryways on the Fordson Stadium and 6 on Ookpik's pic.  Thanks Mikem (Message edited by PSIP on April 24, 2007) | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 196 Registered: 01-2007 |
I found that article too. It appears to reiterate what MikeM said - a lot of little towns seem to have/had a WPA built football stadium. All of them appear to be made from cement and look very similar. I feel the stadium in question is not Wisner Stadium or Fordson Stadium. I base this on the location and number of entrance/exit points among the seats. The stadium in question has six while Wisner appears to have 1 and Fordson stadium has 4. Also, the entrance/exit points seem to be in the middle of the stadium and not at the bottom like Wisner/Fordson.   Ookpik | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 197 Registered: 01-2007 |
Man, I have to use less words! Psip said in one sentence what it took me a paragraph and two pix to say! Ookpik | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1852 Registered: 04-2005 |
 The battle cry of todays industry, "More with Less" I don't know. I have checked EMU, Atwood in Flint, WSU and Hamtramac. Nothing looks like it. Its a bigger stadium then Fordson leading me to believe it is in a larger population area. What school were really big in the '30s | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 820 Registered: 10-2003 |
Psip..... .....keep in mind when WPA stadiums were built, there wasn't much to do in small towns and high school football was THE thing, so the whole town and surounding area would turn out for the game. Now, having said that, could the field in question be someone's small college stadium, maybe like Alma or Albion or Hillsdale? | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 119 Registered: 03-2006 |
I thought that these pictures were supposed to be from Detroit or surrounding suburbs. Otherwise, we might as well check surrounding states too! : ) |
