  Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2357 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.81.202 |
I was driving down Lakeshore Dr. in Grosse Pte. Shores on Sunday, and noticed that quaint little Bus Shelter at Lakeshore & Oxford Rd. It was made of brick with a shingle roof, sort of like in the Arts & Crafts style. That got me to thinking about old Detroit bus shelters. I remember that large old bus shelter at East Grand Blvd. & Jefferson for Belle Isle. That one was destroyed along with the East Grand Blvd. underpass back about 15 years ago. Are there any other old Detroit bus shelters remaining, besides those on Belle Isle? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 281 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.55.51 |
Gistok, I think you are confusing Detroit bus shelters with plexiglas encased public urinals. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 625 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 209.69.221.253 |
Or masturbation stations ... | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 538 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
I use to take the Chene Coach from its starting point at Jos Campau and Davison all the way to its terminus at Cadillac Square. They had great bus shelters downtown! They even had a restroom that was down one floor below the ground with huge floor to chest urinals you could take a bath in and toilets that even had doors for privacy. And, the best part was that you could go there to use the lavatory, do you remember that word, and not get accosted by a crack head, pervert or thug because they were patrolled by the transit police. Once, I got there I use to beat a path down Woodward Ave. South to a little tobacco shop called LaFond that sold cigarettes from all over the world. I was just a young punk and I thought it was cool to smoke cigarettes from Russia, Turkey and France. Unfortunately, it took me 30 years to quit that filthy habit! Livedog2  | ||
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 64.7.187.125 |
hey, wanna buy a watch? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2359 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.81.248 |
Thanks Livedog2.... but it looks like some of the youngin's can't remember a time before plexiglass... when bus stations were architecturally attractive... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4006 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Probably a famous one was the Log Cabin at the end of the Woodward PCC street car line. Is it stil there? jjaba. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 550 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
What does PCC mean?
Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4010 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Woodward street car pictured was a PCC car. Made in St. Louis, Presidential Car Commission. Detroit's PCC cars were sold to Mexico City. There are several good street car threads on this Forum for addl. info. jjaba. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 552 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Ever the consumate educator, thanks for the clarification, Jjaba! Might this be one of the actual Fenkell DSR BUS' Jjaba traveled on???  Livedog2 | ||
Mrkick Member Username: Mrkick Post Number: 5 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.220.225.86 |
Wow the Fenkell bus went to Middlebelt!! | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 554 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Belle Isle, Bus Station & Shelter, 1932.  Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4016 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Livedog is right. jjaba was inside the bus waiting for the politicians to fucking get out the way. jjaba mama be in the front window of the coach getting change for farebox. It looks like the bus is aside the Larned St. Greyhound Station. What does jjaba win? jjaba, on the Fenkell-Middlebelt. (Reading new comic book.) | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 559 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Jjaba wins a "free" transfer from the Fenkell Bus to the Evergreen Coach!  Livedog2 | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1806 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 71.144.119.173 |
Gistok, it is a relic from the days when people cared about their surroundings, and designed things and places which would have and create dignity. There is an interesting wooden bus stop at Moross before Kercheval, but nothing like this one. Gistok, have you read the book 'the Geography of Nowhere?' You would enjoy it, especially in how it deplores modern attempts at placemaking and architecture. It also discusses transit in depth, and has a long, frustratingly harsh, and now kinda out of date, discussion on Detroit. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4020 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Thanks Livedog2. I gave the transfer to Shaquana and Kareem. Oh, dog, don't get into no pissing match with jjaba. Does Livedog2 need jjaba to bust a move to defend your ass over there? jjaba, ready. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1098 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70 |
Double it please | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 565 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Livedog2 | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1269 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 206.148.168.254 |
Behold! The Cadillac Square bus station in all of its midwinter glory.  | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 570 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Magnificent, Hornwrecker! Livedog2 | ||
Paulj Member Username: Paulj Post Number: 418 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 68.249.241.80 |
ooOOooooo pre cheese-grater Bank One/Chase Building. I'm impressed. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 571 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
From the opposite direction.  Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4024 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
How about the old Capitol Park transit center? All the different Grand River feeder bus started there. jjaba, Former Dispatcher with the white gloves and topcat. Ok, empty to Cass Tech. Hold to 3:35. Ok, loaded to The Olympia. hold, drop line. Restart when Elvis gets out and bus loaded, to Southfield turnaround. Ok, express to Temple Baptist, then local to Telegraph. Nobody ahead of you. Sending a local in ten. He's gonna be a Lahser. | ||
Aarne_frobom Member Username: Aarne_frobom Post Number: 28 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 162.108.2.222 |
Slight correction: PCC stood for Presidents' Conference Committee, an organization of trolley-system executives formed in the 1930's to devise a modern trolley car that would cut operating costs and be faster and more comfortable than existing 1920's streetcars. The development of the PCC car is a fascinating bit of history, too long to detail here, but it was heavily dependent on Michigan persons and firms. As I recall, the chairman of the committee that oversaw the design was from Detroit Edison. Clark Equipment of, I think, Kalamazoo did much of the design of the lightweight, high-power, automotive-style power truck. PCC-car technology went into thousands of street and transit cars worldwide in the 1940's. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4028 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Thanks Aarne. Tell us more. Sorry about the faux pas by jjaba. jjaba, on the Woodward Log Cabin. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2372 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.90.142 |
Thanks for the pics folks.... That Belle Isle Bus Station was a nice classic building. Too bad it was torn down about 20 years ago. At the same time the East Grand Blvd. underpass under Jefferson was filled in. One can imagine a thousand years from now some future archeologists unearthing that underpass... "one of the finest surviving examples of early 20th century road work engineering..." | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4034 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
No, by that time, Jefferson Avenue will become I-694 with huge exit ramps directly over to Belle Isle. Any evidence of the old tunnel will be obliterated except for one shovel left by a WPA worker ("leaning on the shovel") and a rusted old Model T hub cap. jjaba. |
