 
Taj920
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Username: Taj920
Post Number: 285
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 - 6:07 pm: |    |
Anyone grow up in the East Warren/Alter Rd. area in the 60s and 70s???? How about going to Corrigan Park and the Fire Station? |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 362
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 6:38 am: | |
no, but i used to work at Van Lerberghe Funeral home, on E.Warren |
Harpernottingham
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Username: Harpernottingham
Post Number: 337
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 9:59 am: | |
My parents were married at St. John Berchman's in 1967.
I don't think I've ever set foot in the place.
My folks are both gone now.
Tell me more about SJB. |
Gpcharles
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Username: Gpcharles
Post Number: 8
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 10:49 am: | |
Anyone remember Bernie's Bar across the street from Van Leberghe Funeral Home? Great Friday night fish fry - full of Catholic families during Lent. |
Mcwalbucksnfitch
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Username: Mcwalbucksnfitch
Post Number: 75
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 12:02 pm: | |
My mom graduated from Servite in 1972 and went to SJB through 8th grade. Grew up on the corner of Lakeview and Canfield..I'll see if she has anything to say and get back... |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 366
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 12:09 pm: | |
my oldest sister went to Servite back in the 60's |
1953
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Username: 1953
Post Number: 1536
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 12:25 pm: | |
I believe my grandparents were married at St. John Berchman's in 1946. Grandpa grew up on Knottingham and Grandma on Wayburn. |
Carptrash
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Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1577
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 4:08 pm: | |
Here is my entry from "Shadowing Parducci." I have no idea how it will format here.
St. John Berchman Ch. G F Diehl Detroit 1942 MI 9801 Chalmers (4820 Longview ?) lecturn & sedelia
St. John Berchman Ch altars G F Diehl Detroit 1942 MI 9801 Chalmers (4820 Longview ?) altars
St. John Berchman Ch. G F Diehl Detroit 1943 MI 9801 Chalmers (4820 Longview ?) *flagpole base
St. John Berchman Ch. G F Diehl Detroit 1943 MI 9801 Chalmers (4820 Longview ?) pedestal |
Mccarch
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Username: Mccarch
Post Number: 157
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 6:36 pm: | |
Carpster - I think your source is incorrect. SJB is pure VanLeyenSchilling&Keough through and through. Per those addresses, I think you're citing work at St. Juliana on Chalmers, which was run by the same religious order (the Servite fathers). Could St. Juliana early in its days have been a mission of SJB? |
Carptrash
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Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1581
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 8:33 pm: | |
Thanks MacC;
My reading of that data is that D&D came in after the church was constructed by VanL & Co, maybe decades later, and just did a few mop up sorts of things, looks like mostly interior stuff. But I will check - - ---- where ever one goes to check this sort of thing. Most of my address came out of a 1960s RC church directory, and so matching the right Saint with the right building did not always happen. I want to get as much of this stuff right before I try to rally present anything to the world at large. You know, as opposed to the random assortment of . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... types found here. eeeeeeeeek |
Carptrash
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Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1582
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 8:56 pm: | |
MacC: Let me know if you see this 'cause . . I switched over from scanning negatives to something else just for you. Anyway, I hope this works. (It seems that I need to do it as two scans . . .. so here we go) ((again)) eeeeek
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Mccarch
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Username: Mccarch
Post Number: 158
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 10:16 pm: | |
I'm impressed - do you have those records in your possession?
I'm pretty sure that the flagpole base is at St. Juliana (I've seen it there, but never studied it carefully); I've never seen a flagpole at St. John Berchman, though I'll look the next time. |
Caldogven
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Username: Caldogven
Post Number: 155
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 10:58 pm: | |
We lived on Drexel,and were married at St. John's in ninety sixty |
Carptrash
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Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1583
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 11:16 pm: | |
Yes, some of them, and they are filled with little "ooopses" that I try to fix when possible, and I appreciate what ever help I can get. eeek |
Eastsiderules
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Username: Eastsiderules
Post Number: 25
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 11:17 pm: | |
Servite/St.John's is closer to Connor than Alter |
Eastsiderules
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Username: Eastsiderules
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 11:19 pm: | |
Think Parkside projects/Chandler Park |
Taj920
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Username: Taj920
Post Number: 286
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 1:08 am: | |
St John Berchmans was an extremely large school back in the 60s and 70s. I remember having 40 kids in the class for first grade.It wasnt unusual for some families to have over 8 kids, and if you came from a family with only 2 kids your family was small. The school used Corrigan park for their athletic field and not only the sjb kids went there, but all the kids in the neighborhood. The firestation was across the street and would always let the kids get a tour and slide down the pole. Also in the summer they would open the fire hydrant and let the neighborhood kids run through it. |
Whithorn11446
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Username: Whithorn11446
Post Number: 195
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 12:37 pm: | |
"Servite/St.John's is closer to Connor than Alter"
How does around Warren & Dickerson sound ? Although I want to say it the street was actually Lakeview
Anybody bowl at the old Parkside lanes on Warren & Dickerson ? |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 379
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 8:11 pm: | |
Town Tap ? Dickerson and Canfield. |
Swiburn
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Username: Swiburn
Post Number: 225
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 7:46 am: | |
For Whithorn: St. Margaret Mary was at E. Warren and Lemay
St. Philip Neri: Dickerson and Charlevoix.
I don't know how close these were to St. John Berchmans.
St. John Berchmans was a Flemish parish. |
Wkl
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Username: Wkl
Post Number: 123
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 8:33 am: | |
My mother was a teacher at St John Berchmans up until it closed. |
Servite76
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Username: Servite76
Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 11:28 am: | |
Hello forum, I stumbled across this board this morning and it certainly brought a smile to my face. Many of the schools, streets, dealerships, corner bars, movie houses etc. were a big part of my growing up on the eastside. It seems like yesterday walking home from St John Berchmans down E. Canfield. Walking past Oscars candy store, Twightlight Lounge, The Town Tap. I attended St. John Berchmans 1st through 8th, and then graduating from Servite in 1976. I lived on E. Canfield and Algonquin until 1974. I look forward to reading more great stories from the eastside. Wki...your mother was a teacher at SJB? Would she have been there in the 60's and early 70's? |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 389
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 11:52 am: | |
Servite76-WELCOME TO THE FORUM* |
Wkl
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Username: Wkl
Post Number: 124
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:01 pm: | |
Servite76 - she was there in the 70s and taught in the 7th and 8th grade. She went back to teaching after we kids where old enough to look after ourselves. She ended up a Guardian Angel after SJB closed. |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6547
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 1:09 pm: | |
Carpy, didn't Parducci do some work at Guardian Angel? |
Taj920
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Username: Taj920
Post Number: 287
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 5:22 pm: | |
I went to school ,- Servite after SJB . Anyone remember the volleyball games- 8th grade boys against the teachers? How about the pep rallies in high school there? |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6548
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 8:37 pm: | |
Here's a few photos:
Parducci's work can be seen in the entraceway. |
Pgn421
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Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 394
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 8:44 pm: | |
wasnt there a veladrome at SJB or Servite? i can remember it vaguely , i was about 5 years old! veladome or veladrome? |
Whithorn11446
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Username: Whithorn11446
Post Number: 198
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 8:48 pm: | |
"For Whithorn: St. Margaret Mary was at E. Warren and Lemay
St. Philip Neri: Dickerson and Charlevoix.
I don't know how close these were to St. John Berchmans.
St. John Berchmans was a Flemish parish."
Swiburn,
Those parishes were close to each other and the boundaries probably bordered. |
Russell
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Username: Russell
Post Number: 48
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:39 am: | |
Bernie (from Bernie's bar) was my husband's uncle. My father-in-law was the bartender there. I have some fabulous old pictures from probably the 50's taken of people from inside the bar. |