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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 412
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 9:53 am: |    |
One of Detroit's best and oldest schools; a list of famous alumni that rivals Cass Tech.
NW Colt athletic teams consistently ranked among the toughest in Michigan.
Please share your memories!
(Message edited by chuckjav on March 04, 2008) |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2814
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 12:10 pm: | |
Never went there. But I used to park next to the power house when I went to Red Wings games at the Olympia. Spooky, but I feared no evil. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 415
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:15 pm: | |
Ray1936....What I remember most about NWHS, was the wide open spaces and athletic fields surrounding the school.
Wasn't there a WWII-era anti-aircraft machine gun on the property? |
Goldensunshine
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Username: Goldensunshine
Post Number: 77
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:50 pm: | |
My Mama went to Northwestern - Class of 1967 |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2817
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 5:47 pm: | |
It was a World War I gun with the breech removed. During the turbulent riot years of the late sixties, the students painted it red, green, and black. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 133
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 9:30 pm: | |
I attended the Big N.O. later in the 80's, but I remember as a kid when the Old Building was on the corner of Grand River and West Grand Blvd(now stands a 3.5 million dollar Church)....The school was like a small campus(I believe a long time ago, the school use to be a college of some sort.) It had 4 different buildings plus Mc Michael Middle School...the Mar building,(Math,and Business), the C Building(General Studies), the B building,(Physical Education and Music) and the A building(Science,Sex Ed. and Auto Mechanics, Wood-shop etc.)
There was a time when students had to walk through a tunnel (if one was brave enough)...most students, for safety, walked around the perimeter to the A and B buildings. The tunnel connected the C building to the A and B Building on the Corner of the Blvd and Lawton. There was often a negative story which added to the legacy of the notorious Northwestern 'tunnel'. I can remember my brother many times telling me about a stick-up or gang-fight in the notorious 'tunnel'.
Northwestern, the Mighty C-O-L-T-S, was/is known for a brilliant English Department, Music Department, Sports teams...particularly Basketball, Volley ball, and Swimming
blksoul-atcha! |
Reddog289
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Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 243
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 11:48 pm: | |
both my dads went to northwestern, neither did graduate, i never heard a whole lot about place cept that the"GUN" was pointed at southwestern. my step dad said it was tough in the 40,s and even tougher when my father went there later. |
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