 
Dave70
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Username: Dave70
Post Number: 34
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 8:02 am: |    |
"I'll repeat it here. Is there one person, family, or household that you know of that has been in the northeast Detroit area (along the Morang strip) since its inception in the 40s-50s?"
My grandfather had a house built on Riad in the 40s I think. I remember an old photo of the house and down the block it looked like fields, dirt road etc.
When my mom got married they lived in that house and I grew up there. Lived there until 1993 when I married and we got a house by Balduck park.
Those early 90s are when I really noticed the acceleration of the neighborhood declining, like the good ol' businesses closing, many houses for sale, and crime. Besides the burglars and car thefts I could hear the gunshots night after night in the distance and if I were standing on Morang and Riad it sounded like they were coming somewhere from Denby to 7 and Hayes area.
One of my sisters however is still in the area, she lives on Laing between Moross and Casino. |
Stinger4me
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Username: Stinger4me
Post Number: 174
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 9:35 am: | |
Gibran; Was Ken Hissong part of the Hissong's you mentioned? |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6282
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 11:31 am: | |
Dave70... I had friends on Riad in the 1980's between Morang and where the street dead ended at the park by Denby... Ben & June Zaglanyczny. |
Gibran
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Username: Gibran
Post Number: 1742
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 12:04 pm: | |
absolutely....I remember his family very well...he had a great wife and cool children....I worked on his campaign as a younger kid...passed out fliers... |
7_and_kelly_kid
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Username: 7_and_kelly_kid
Post Number: 79
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:00 pm: | |
KR...for what it's worth..........my first memory of Eastwood.......walking out my side door and seeing Rick V. and Tom Gallas (God rest his soul too...sigh)leaning against the biggest Elm tree on the block at the the end of my driveway. I think the stump is still there........... |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 211
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:44 pm: | |
7K,
If my memory serves me correctly that elm tree served as the "not it" tree when playing tag. |
Dave70
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Username: Dave70
Post Number: 35
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 4:08 pm: | |
Gistok,
I didn't know Ben and June... the only time I hung out on the dead end there was to watch the fireworks every July 4th when I was a kid and oh yeah, when I still attended Carleton Elementary ('76-'81) I played with a kid who lived over there every once and a while, forget his name but I remember his brother who was very overweight was named Tony. |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6286
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 9:48 pm: | |
Dave70... I remember that overweight kid to... Tony sounds right. They lived on the Kelly side of Riad I believe. |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1141
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 9:59 pm: | |
KR: The Fordham Gang was indeed a very mild group...we specialized in walking little ol' ladies across the street. The Mapleridge Mob however, was a group to avoid at almost all costs...they were noted for snow face washes...stealing from neighborhood apple trees, and later for def_____ing any number of sweet young things on the NEside...they were a really reprehensible collection of nere-do-wells!
Grumpy: She would have graduated from Denby about '61...but might you have known a family in the Carleton area by the name of Jensen? Sally was my prom date in '59...have wondered what became of her. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 904
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 10:35 pm: | |
GB - right after the prom Sally J lived at various houses on Mapleridge between Brock and Morang with some of the MMob boys.......kind of a sharing plan....she cried uncontrolled for over a month and kept mumbling something about a white FORD convert and "He had a princeton....he had a princeton and a barracuda jacket" .she later became a nun and is living in Traverse City. |
Dave70
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Username: Dave70
Post Number: 36
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 4:20 am: | |
Gistok, you're right they did live on the Kelly side. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 913
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 10:47 pm: | |
FAther Bananahead it has come to the CSI investigators that SJ did stay on Mapleridge after the 59 prom as stated above..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1147
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 10:17 am: | |
Naw......she had waaaaaaay too much class for Mapleridge! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 916
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:44 am: | |
GB - Stylin' clothing needs to be a chapter in the Book...... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1154
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 2:13 pm: | |
Are you back to the peg pants for the Sharks games? |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 918
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:21 pm: | |
GB - khaki's loafers v neck sweater white button down shirt and the FAMOUS barracuda jacket with the plaid lining......and YOU!••• |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1155
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:37 pm: | |
I'd forgotten about the barracuda jacket of the 60's-80's...God that was a cool jacket...plaid lining and all. Your apparel sounds so very...so very...well...what can I say...so Grosse Pointeish...I thought you lived in hip San Jose! Please tell us that you're not attending the game sans socks and with penny loafers! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 928
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 12:10 pm: | |
Crocks - shorts - and an MSU tee shirt.......and a JC game Jersey..... |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 6303
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 12:29 pm: | |
Mikem, very interesting factoid about Morang being called 7 Mile when Moross was not a completed street in the 30's.
We used to occasionally tell strangers (unfamiliar with the east side) that Morang and by connection, Cadieux Rd. were an extension of "6 Mile", since they followed pretty closely the continuation of Seymour Ave., the street that 6 Mile (McNichols) turns into east of Gratiot.
My first job (1969-74) was as a bagger and later cashier at the Morang & Kelly Chatham Store (#8). My first manager was Mike Summers, and our head cashier was Helen Mazzola, who's son Chris Mazzola has been mentioned on other east side threads as belonging to an east side rock band.
I can't remember the name of that red bricked drive thru car wash that was on Morang, but it had the best floral landscaping of any car wash I've ever seen! That owner really took pride in keeping that place nicely landscaped with a lot of flowers and bushes. |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 403
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:30 pm: | |
Als car wash? |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 933
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
First one to acquire a Barracuda jacket with an official plaid lining gets all the booze at the TC Eastside CSI convention covered with no questions asked.....Back to E-bay..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1171
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 10:29 am: | |
I think my Barracuda jacket (with plaid lining) is in the bottom of my mother's cedar chest...along with my Nehru jacket and TAR letter sweater. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 934
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 11:12 am: | |
Stylin' The "CUDA" was worn even if the temp was 15 degrees below zero.........This means that we need another chapter on Eastside HS clothing........ |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1178
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 10:13 am: | |
That would be a good chapter...I'll write about the Cuda jacket and Izod shirts with chinos...you can write about your pegged pants with padded shoulder jacket and greasy ducktail...KR & 7K can write about rolled up jeans and white shirts with ties. We need a woman from the era to write about kilts and saddle shoes. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 943
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
GB - way to go and take charge!•••• You greasy guys came first and then the socialite / College bound focus students of my era came next......at least you had a mellow white ford.... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1184
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:14 pm: | |
ES: My class INVENTED the collegiate look...princeton haircut, Barracuda jacket, chino pants, Izod shirt...or a button down madras long sleeve shirt...plus loafers with tassels! Everyone knew that the Mapleridge crowd was a bunch of Elvis wannabes...except for the one's who thought they were hip in Nehru jackets and bell bottom pants! |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 951
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 11:07 pm: | |
GB - I think that you have been smokin' "cloud 9" stuff again....The 61 class was the totally collegiate class - the 59 class i do remember had 14 guys out of the 3000 who attended DHS who did get their princeton haircut, Cuda jacket and loafers........I hated the rock salt that ruined my loafers over the years in Motown......were you number 15 or 2985....I can't remember..... |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1190
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 11:21 am: | |
ES: If there was ANYONE in '61 who had gone collegiate it was PURELY due to the influence of those of us who had gone before...paving the way...showing how it was to be done...selling elevator passes, etc. |
Eastside61
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Username: Eastside61
Post Number: 953
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 11:33 am: | |
Sorry Oh Great Fordham Father of the Cuda.......I always envied you and SR walking down the hallways at DHS hand in hand.......I never had the skills to talk to girls like you did..............and I remember you always talking to Coach Rice in the lockerroom...what was that all about????? |
Goblue
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Username: Goblue
Post Number: 1192
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 12:41 pm: | |
ES: JR always demanded a percentage of the sales of hall passes...generally I was able to negotiate him down to 10% but then he upped the price of a signed package of the passes...the guy was a real racketeer...again, here I was...a private business man trying to earn a living and having to deal with the bureaucracy.
SR....ah, yas...sweet SR. |