  Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2777 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.36 |
Since the topic of preservation comes up so much here, what threads do you think should be preserved in the Detroit Memories Forum once they run their course [including those in the archives]. Detroit Memories is sort of a hall of fame - maybe its name will be changed to that. For example, and obviously, Old Car Factories is destined for the hall. Toss out your suggestions for threads that you find are of quality and have enlightened and or entertained you. No guarantee that all will be graduated but your suggestions will be valued. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1296 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.75.63 |
Detroit Streetcar Memories (DSR) thread Detroit's Moviehouses (Theatres?, or whatever that 3 pager was called) thread I've looked for it a few times, anything but that thread shows up on searches. Plus I'd like to be able to add that thread in the future. Maybe the Waterworks Park thread, the Detroit Expressway Planning circa 1945 thread, and the usual suspects: OCF, D2TT. Maybe the Continental Plant on Jefferson thread should be added to the OCF index as it was the thread that begot the behemoth. I blame Mackinaw for starting it all. (Message edited by Hornwrecker on July 08, 2006) | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6295 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
It's probably wrong to suggest this thread, because I started it, but it always one of my favorites. And the mystery never got solved: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/36206/44026.html | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1858 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 70.141.182.220 |
haha HW, that was one of my first posts, back when I was inquisitive. | ||
Alsodave Member Username: Alsodave Post Number: 736 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.215.242.108 |
I vote for Zulu Warrior's Kwanzaa thread(s). I look forward to those posts during the holiday season. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1297 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.75.63 |
Mackinaw, and now we know better, don't we. I think I only started one thread that had some legs, Windsor Tunnel birthday, or something like that. | ||
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 274 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.14.101.116 |
Mayoral Super Thread with Ilovedetroit's incoherent ramblings. | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 983 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 68.21.40.65 |
I agree with your thread, itsJeff | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1162 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 198.111.56.128 |
Can't remember what it was called, but I enjoyed the thread where we went through all the local radio and tv jingles from the past. I think newcomers would like reading that. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 158 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.199.98.217 |
Those threads at the end of the year with the DetroitYes stats. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 817 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.242.215.8 |
The "Are we going to war with Livonia?" thread. One of the funniest things I have ever read. | ||
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce Post Number: 655 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252 |
The Steve Wilson thread | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2405 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.72.29 |
The eastside threads that always end up talking about the far east side, bus routes, Belgians and pigeons...  | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 620 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.186 |
Discuss Detroit » Archives - Beginning January 2006 » Forum Archives, January 10, 1806 - started by Itsjeff Too funny (I don't know how to post links to archived threads, sorry) | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 621 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.186 |
Oh yeah, and the thread about the Madison-Lenox coming down. Rarely have I seen so much outrage expressed like in that one. | ||
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 116 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 68.40.195.233 |
how about something about the cheesecake factory? i can't wait 'til they open their new restaurant downtown by the hard rock cafe, jimmy johns, ben & jerry's, and the forthcoming ESPN zone. - andy | ||
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 330 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.173.240 |
I've been educated, entertained and enlightened by the historic reminiscences + images on these 2005-06 classics: * Detroit's 2nd Train Terminal - 1 Posts on this Page: 125 Last Activity: 01-Oct-2005 * Detroit's 2nd Train Terminal - 2 Posts on this Page: 90 Last Activity: 01-Dec-2005 * Detroit's 2nd Train Terminal - 3 Posts on this Page: 138 Last Activity: 03-Jul-2006 Thanks for asking, Lowell. . . and especially for doing this community service. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 3420 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44 |
As long as it's not the "Detroit Sold for Scrap" rehash again & again... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4082 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.171.136.201 |
Photos du jure by Andrew in Windsor AKA AIW. They are always good, and always very educational. This guy knows more about Detroit, Michigan than da Mare, eh. BTW, Billy Strayhorn wrote a song made famous by Duke Ellington, during their Canada period, "Take The Train, EH". jjaba, many thanks. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 860 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.24.93 |
any post discussing graffiti...... | ||
Pdtpuck Member Username: Pdtpuck Post Number: 111 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 208.251.168.194 |
jews in detroit is an informative & enlightening one... | ||
Hkytwn Member Username: Hkytwn Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 72.38.228.101 |
What ever happened to the thread with the pictures of a family and children in front of an apartment buiding along with other pics of the area and buildings in that location ...there was a gas station and other recognizable buildings. It was I beleive late 30's and the pics were of someones relatives. I'm curious to see if the location was ever solved. I know Jaba work hard on that case but i'm not sure of the outcome. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2648 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/65778.html | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1651 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.10.21.159 |
My pics are the ones where someone posts a pic of their relative's childhood home from the 1940s or earlier and the folks on this board, especially MikeM, pull out the maps and their knowledge of neighborhood architecture, local stores, etc. and crack the case. That has never ceased to amaze me. I don't know that the board has failed at figuring out a pic yet. | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1652 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.10.21.159 |
Another one just came to mind: There was a thread a few years ago where folks discussed Grand River near the Sfld, Greenfield, Lahser area. We discussed Rosedale Park, Grandmont, Old Redford, Grand/Green, etc. There were several old pics posted, buildings identified, etc. Rutic, myself and a few others were heavily involved. I can't seem to find it when I search the archives. That is what really got me hooked and sold on DetroitYES. | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 106 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.41.191.58 |
Detroit steetcar memories was a good thread. The thread where everyone tried to find the apartment building that was in a old photograph was good too. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2663 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Lowell, I second BOTH of BVos' suggestions. Re the GR fenkell threads, there were a few in 2004 ... IMO THIS one is the best (from July 2004): Grand River /Fenkell / Greenfield Pics https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/23585/24296.html It starts off with a little too much of me blathering on like an idiot savant but after that really hits it's stride and then meanders off into other interesting territory. Great thread on IMO one of the most important parts of residential Detroit for the last 50 years. Antoher one on the same topic is Feb 2004's Grand River/Fenkell Shopping https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/18968/19996.html?1077427 547 but imo it isn't nearly as good as the first one I mentioned. Also BEFORE all of this (maybe ~2002) there was a great thread about GR Greenfield shopping. It disappeared in a server crash and no longer appears to be archived, but it was AIR a terrific thread. Perhaps Mr Lowell can use his necromancy skills to bring it back ... | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2664 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Mr. Lowell, here is another suggestion. Now it is probably waaay too political on too hot of a topic to want to draw attention to, but it is a terrific example of the best sorta conversations we have on this forum on hotbutton topics. From Jan 2004: Brush Park https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/18968/19686.html A whole lotta Detroit in that thread. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1322 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.21.37 |
Any progress on making a decision, or are you just toying with us? (bumping this up top) | ||
Marcnbyr Member Username: Marcnbyr Post Number: 660 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.218.58.242 |
Ghettoman's Greatest Hits.....hillarious Whatever thread had ItsJeff's "downtown photos" as a lure for Mauser to come back.... those are my favorites at least... | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2785 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.36 |
Mystery construction site 1932-1934 DSR Streetcar memories Waterworks Park Continental Plant on Jefferson 2005 DetroitYES Stats Are we going to war with Livonia? Forum Archives, January 10, 1806 Jews in Detroit... Where is this? Grand River /Fenkell / Greenfield Pics Brush Park Have been added to the new rename "Hall of Fame Threads" forum. Only Detroit-based topics, serious or humorous, will be added there. So What Else? | ||
Zulu_warrior Member Username: Zulu_warrior Post Number: 2921 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
While I advocate for a Detroit Sports Forum, I think some of the best dialogue has gone on around the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, and any UM/MSU football. Particularly the Pistons Championship runs, Fire Millen threads. Perhaps they could be included... | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2787 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.36 |
Please help me out with links to the archived threads or specific names. Creme de la creme please. :::Detroit City Council Election Super Thread:::... ::::::Detroit Mayoral Election Super Thread:::... :: Rosa Parks Super Thread :: Have also been added... | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1694 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.10.21.159 |
Thanks to Rustic for finding that thread from Grand River. You've got to teach me some day how to get the search results that you do. I can never find what I'm looking for using the search function. And thanks to Lowell for adding it to the Hall. Now I don't have to wonder what happened to it anymore. Thanks also for adding the War with Livonia. That has to take the top prize of all time in the humor category! If you look through many of these posts, there is one name that comes up over and over again, Mikem. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the guy is the Most Valuable Poster on the board. He should work at the Burton Collection if he doesn't already. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1324 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 216.203.223.103 |
Thanks Lowell, here's the link to the old theatre thread. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/61205.html | ||
Merchantgander Member Username: Merchantgander Post Number: 2029 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 150.198.150.244 |
I agree Lowell that thread should be saved forever. That way no one will ever forget Ilovedetroit’s stupidity and idiocy. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2698 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Lowell, good choices. One more suggestion but it does NOT show up in the forum archives. There was a thread about Grayhaven and the Gar Wood Mansion where =sc=, rasputin(?), citylover(?), and a few others (sailorrick and jams too maybe?) shared some inside dope on carousing there PRIOR to and durring the bikers trashing the place. These recollections were interspersed with other choice historical and anecdotal tidbits. NOTE it is NOT any of the later threads that popup occasionally on the subject. =sc= in particular was in rare form. there is a refernce to the thread by mike m in this thread calling it " SC's Gar Wood History" https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/7836/8406.html#POST90951 but the link doesn't work. IF you could find this thread in the ether it is absolutely HOF material. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1325 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 216.203.223.103 |
I can't find the "Detroit Expressway Planning circa 1945" thread with a search. I've got it on my HD so I have it handy for reference, along with the OCF and D2T2 in case you ever need backup. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1677 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 208.44.117.10 |
There is none funnier than Itsjeff's real classic: Typhoon Langwang! Absolutely the best. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 8631 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.54.70.86 |
Definitely the factory thread. The B-C deal (the first thread) with Skulker and Brian and Rasputin going at it with facts on one side and innuendo on the other. | ||
Sarge Member Username: Sarge Post Number: 244 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 204.57.109.226 |
The Detroit slogan thread where someone culled all of Ras' insults from previous posts and posted them as new slogans for the D................... | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2452 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.81.150 |
Thanks Hornwrecker for the link to the old Theatre thread. I just read thru the entire thread again.... great pics and fond memories.... PSIP.... if you read this.... I finally came across the name of the famous organist who did a concert at the Fox Theatre in 1985. It was GAYLORD CARTER, who was the personal favorite organist for Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford. He was organist for many Los Angeles movie palaces in the 1920's. He was born in 1905, and died in 2000 at the age of 95. When he came to the Fox, he was 80. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2791 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.36 |
New additions now include: Help! Lost Cat in Downtown Detroit!!! The London Chop House Lee plaza Lions Books About Detroit Old Detroit Moviehouses Garwood's mansion Detroit Expressway Planning circa 1945 A Super Thread called "On the Lighter Side" will be added to consolidated the funny stuff. C'mon Goat, hunt down that BC thread for me. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2700 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
Lowell, if ya really wanna open up the snakes nest of BC threads here is a summary I compiled (at DRMs request) in early 2004. There have SINCE been another cluster of a half dozen or so that are ALSO noteworthy. IMO the BC threads are NOT HOF worthy ... TOO much rancor and too much unplesantness re a bigtime project whose outcome is still unclear. (But then I'm the same guy who didn't think Ozzie smith belonged in baseball's hof any more than Trammell and Whittaker so ... caveat emptor) these threads are circa 2003-2004 the ~dates and titles are given below: july8 Any update on the current status of the BOOK CADILLAC july11-15 Book-Cadillac Restoration!!! july17-aug4 Book-Cadilac lives while the Statler dies nov11 Book Cadillac nov11-13 BOOK CADILLAC RESTORATION nov19-21 Book Cadillac update Dec18-23 Book Cadillac work to resume Jan. 5 Dec18-25 Statler To be Demolished Dec23 Walbridge, Brinker to be Book Cadillac contractors Jan14-16 Developer pulls out of Book Cadillac project superlong but there is some BC stuff in it: June27-Jan27 Taxes: Incentives, Breaks and Perks Jan23 Book Hotel Developer Emerges ... Yay Detroit! WARNING: scrolling through them you might be suprised at who was posting inuendo and who wasn't tho ... Yay Detroit! NOTE again there are another dozen or so AFTER these that are really compelling too esp when the schism between some vocal FoBCs and vocal FoSkulker happened. Too much nasty stuff tho for the HoF, keep it out, keep the HoF for ancient realestate shennigans, not stuff that's still plastic. Peace! (Message edited by rustic on July 17, 2006) | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 2775 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.202.227.12 |
How about the Livonia War thread? that was a classic | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 623 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.186 |
Lowell, I'm tellin ya, The Madison-Lenox is coming down thread was a big one! It had people from all over the country chiming in. And on the funny side - Itsjeff's January 1806 thread. | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 624 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.186 |
Never mind - you already listened to me | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1326 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.18.178 |
If you scroll down to the bottom of the HOF page, their is a link to the On the Lighter Side, which has both the 1806 and Livonia threads listed, or use this link. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/6790/77235.html?11531643 37 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4101 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.193.193.49 |
Old Factory Tours Old Movie Houses Jews in Detroit Old DRS pictures. Briggs Stadium threads. jjaba's rants about Grosse Pointers and Canadians. jjaba's rants about the Eastside. Gistok on theatre history. jjaba. | ||
Ghetto_butterfly Member Username: Ghetto_butterfly Post Number: 625 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 68.60.139.186 |
I know I'm getting annoying but I REALLY want the Madison-Lenox Coming Down thread on the HOF section: it was breaking news, it was a Super thread, it caught national attention, it expressed the outrage of so many preservationists (including me) Btw, I'm still boycotting the Illitches, haven't had a Hot'n Ready since | ||
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister Post Number: 760 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 70.8.58.223 |
I vote for: DSR War with Livonia and any thread about Quicken Loans moving downtown. Very entertaining how folks claim to know the inside scoop and try to hold us all hostage with their "I can't tell" posts. later - naturalsister | ||
Swingline Member Username: Swingline Post Number: 535 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 4.229.60.13 |
One memorable thread, while perhaps more suitable for an HOS rather than a HOF, is the one started after a fatal police officer shooting a couple of years ago that produced the famous "I didn't lose schitt" comment from one long-time poster. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2464 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.81.172 |
LOL.... thanks for the laugh Naturalsister on the "inside scoop" comments.... but now I have to clean my keyboard.... cuz I was eating breakfast when I burst out laughing.... | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 719 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
I vote for the "Does Anyone Remember" thread about the mystery of the reclusive Emma Schuknecht and her fortune that everyone helped solve after 54 years. Livedog2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4104 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.193.193.49 |
Anything Eastside since it is so remove. You might as well be on ClevelandYes.com. jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4105 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.193.193.49 |
So "remote." Sorry. (Freudian slip.) jjaba. | ||
Frank_c Member Username: Frank_c Post Number: 649 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Better find a thread about a race issue; as many people say "Why does it always have to be about race" How many times have you heard that! | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 166 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.88.89.94 |
The Downtown Hudson's thread. Great before demo pixs. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/75147.html?1151951795 | ||
Pdtpuck Member Username: Pdtpuck Post Number: 129 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 208.251.168.194 |
I was gonna vote for the "Daily Hate" thread to end up in the HOS, but would anybody actually go read it (them)?!?!? (Can you believe that one is almost 500 posts?!?) | ||
Dfd Member Username: Dfd Post Number: 60 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 216.68.225.2 |
The thread with pictures of Brush Park was a good one. | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1067 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 71.227.67.110 |
Ghettoman's Greatest Hits. No other thread has ever had me laughing so hard. Speaking of that, what ever happened to that guy? Get laughed off the forum? Man that stuff had me laughing out loud.... | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1437 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.236.37 |
Bumping to the top for more suggestions, and bringing up the Last Dime Store thread for possible inclusion. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/69049.html | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1846 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.228.57.79 |
Here's a thread that's destined for the HOF. It just got started so there's a lot of life and discussion left in her, but it's shaping up to be one of the greats. Give it a few months and, provided it doesn't become a factory thread, will be in the Hall: Firehouses https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/78802.html?1155861379 | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2859 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.213 |
Good suggestions. Dime store is now in the HOF, Firehouses on deck. Bright blue arrow by thread title indicates future HOF status. |
