Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2941 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.81.50.7
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:51 am: | |
Where is Gramma? [Gramma returns! This is a restored post. I think the original poster, Tokennojokin, may have deleted the the original post after a forumer took some disrespectful liberties with the above photo. [Apologies to the poster; we could not zap them quickly enough, but they have since removed]. Fortunately this image was still in my browser cache and I have been able to recover it and repost it as this thread's entire context is based on this wonderful picture.] |
Janesback Member Username: Janesback
Post Number: 58 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 69.153.7.127
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:03 pm: | |
which one is Grandma? Love the 2 tone shoes, they're back in style.........Love, Jane |
Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 6 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 68.40.218.37
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:20 pm: | |
the one on the left. |
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister
Post Number: 803 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.73.198.214
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:26 pm: | |
Give it a minute. We have many experts that will have your answer shortly. Please stand by. later - naturalsister |
Miketoronto Member Username: Miketoronto
Post Number: 298 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 65.92.73.214
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:27 pm: | |
I have no idea where it is. But can I comment on how great the style was back then. My mom has similar photos of my grandparents, etc, and I am always amazed how well presented people were back then. They cared about looking nice when being in public, etc. Not like today with no class at all. Funny thing is they made less money then, but where much better presented. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1146 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:39 pm: | |
The building on the Left, with the angle front door, looks like the old Wayne County Morgue |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1147 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:49 pm: | |
So, if my hunch is correct, they would have been on Brush, just north of Lafayette next to the D.M. Ferry building. |
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026
Post Number: 1247 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 35.11.212.197
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:55 pm: | |
that looks like the DM Ferry.... i think u got it Psip! |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1148 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:56 pm: | |
This may be the building they are standing next to;\ notice the slight arched windows on the first floor. |
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026
Post Number: 1248 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 35.11.212.197
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:58 pm: | |
and the low windows on the bottom.... good job |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2799 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 9:49 pm: | |
Psip is correct. It is the old coroner's court building (morgue) in the background, southeast corner of Brush & E Lafayette: That would place them on the west side of Brush, north of Lafayette, where the Ferry-Morse Seed Co filled the entire block. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1149 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 9:56 pm: | |
It looks like they are standing in front of a fire hydrant on Brush. My guess is that there is still a fire hydrant there. You could go to the exact location of the picture. There is a large parking structure (what else) where Ferry Seed Co. once stood. Thanks Mikem. |
Neilr Member Username: Neilr
Post Number: 335 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 68.60.139.212
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 10:09 pm: | |
Thank you, Mikem for the great picture of the Wayne County Morgue. To me, the old Wayne County Morgue was always Detroit’s best example of “form follows function.” It was in the Egyptian Style and its function was to deal with bodies after death. |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2800 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 10:11 pm: | |
The reference to the southwest corner of Brush and Lafayette is a misprint. A check of an old aerial photo confirms the correct location: Arrow points to morgue; Morse Seed Co outlined. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1550 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 11:45 pm: | |
So it appears that the location on which they are standing would be just across the street from the Atheneum Hotel entrance on the Brush St. side of the Atheneum Hotel Parking Garage. The building seen to the south of the Morgue, which today is a parking lot, is the old Cigar Factory. What company was it? |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2806 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 11:54 pm: | |
The address I have for that building south of the morgue is 407-409 E Fort, aka the Globe Building, with six floors occupied [in 1935] by several tennants. On the top floor was the Globe Tabacco Co. |
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker
Post Number: 724 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 75.10.1.205
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:03 am: | |
you all are amazzing |
Erikd Member Username: Erikd
Post Number: 713 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.242.214.106
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:40 am: | |
Kathleen is dead on... They are standing on the sidewalk along the side of Sweet Georgia Brown, near the spot where the overhead pedestrian walkway connects the 400 Monroe building with the parking garage. If you look at the background of this picture, you can also see the hazy outline of the DuMouchelle Gallery building with the water tower on top. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1151 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:52 am: | |
This was an easy one... bring on the hard stuff |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 434 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.141.198
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 7:17 am: | |
You guys figured out where they were but now I am wondering why they were there. What else would have been on that corner that would have interested two nicely dressed young ladies? |
Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 7 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 68.40.218.37
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 7:32 am: | |
Thanks I knew someone could figure it out. But when you mentioned a seed company I know she use to work for one. She had lupus and could only remember the past and she always talked about working at a seed company. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1551 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 8:26 am: | |
As stated above, it appears that they are standing along the Ferry Seed Company building. Tokennojokin notes that his grandmother worked at a seed company. Maybe she and her friend had just gotten off work and were heading out for the evening and got their photo taken to remember the event? |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1197 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.251.28
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 8:44 am: | |
No, they're standing alongside a building that once occupied the present site of the Greektown Casino parking garage, right across Brush Street from the entrance to today's Atheneaum Hotel. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1552 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57
| Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 9:14 am: | |
Yes, we know, and there was some confusion, on my part, about whose parking garage that is. So it is the Greektown Casino Parking Garage....across from the Atheneum Hotel. The Ferry Seed Company stood on that site. And, I believe, Ferry Seed Co. also owned the building on the site of today's International Center/ Atheneum Hotel/Fishbones. The question is: when did the Ferry Seed Co. building bounded by Brush, Monroe, Randolph, and Lafayette get razed? |
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave
Post Number: 93 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 63.77.247.130
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 2:46 pm: | |
Seems like some of the Ferry Seed Warehouse was still standing when I first started working downtown in 1979. It was behind the last "version" of Sam's Dept. Store which was located on the southeast corner of Broadway and Monroe, where the Greektown Casino garage now is. The earlier Sam's was located in the old Detroit Opera House building on Campus Martius. |
Dougw Member Username: Dougw
Post Number: 1309 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 136.1.1.101
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | |
Am I the only one who can't see "Grama" at all? |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 84 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 3:21 pm: | |
Dougw, You're not alone. Interesting reading the site IDs but no clue without the picture. |
Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch
Post Number: 324 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 71.65.11.152
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 3:30 pm: | |
The pictures were deleted. The location was figured out, and I guess considered case closed. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 2755 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.140
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 3:34 pm: | |
Yup, Grandma (and the rest of the family) is gone... No Pic! And didn't that earlier Ferry-Morse seed warehouse (in PSIP's pic) burn down? |
Janesback Member Username: Janesback
Post Number: 64 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 69.152.232.139
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 3:37 pm: | |
DougW, I saw Grandma when her photo was first posted, and she was quite cute. I just loved her two toned shoes and loved the outfits. You dont see that in todays women, the 2 women shown were both poised and dressed to the hilt. She was in great shape as well, her weight was in proportion to her height. I wished the poster would enlighten us more, and show more of Grandma and her friend or at least tell us a few facts about her. I bet she cut a mean rug in her day. Love to all, Jane |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 85 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 68.43.29.171
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 5:12 pm: | |
The Shoes! I want to see the Shoes!! Not that I'm that fond of shoes but I do like the tailored fashions of yesteryear. Guess that's why I still wear suits, pumps, and sometimes even hats while all around me are in tanks, t's, shorts, and sandals (with hairy toes!) |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 437 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.45.117
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 7:15 pm: | |
We could all post pics of our Grandmas and turn it into a general Grandma thread. |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5833 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 9:20 pm: | |
Great idea Pam! Here's my Grandma (with my Grandpa) in Front of the Great Pyramid in Egypt (I don't need the forums help identifying that location!) c. 1942.
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Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch
Post Number: 327 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 71.65.11.152
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 9:29 pm: | |
Aiw - you gotta be wrong. I am almost positive that is the Luxor, in Las Vegas. (Message edited by thnk2mch on September 05, 2006) |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2935 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.211.42
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:24 pm: | |
Pyramid stage at Hart Plaza? |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6777 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133
| Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 11:49 pm: | |
Itsnana, far left, taken 1910 in Pontiac, with her mother and sister.
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Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 8 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 66.178.220.86
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 6:23 am: | |
Ask itsjeff why the pic was taken off he can tell you. |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 973 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:18 am: | |
My Grandparents wedding at St. John Berchman Church in Detroit (1946): The afterparty at grandma's house on Wayburn:
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Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 9 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 66.178.220.86
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:32 am: | |
Nice Pics |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 974 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:18 am: | |
Thanks! I have one of my great grand parents on their wedding day in Detroit in 1915, but I can't seem to locate the digital copy right now... |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 88 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 3:19 pm: | |
1953, I assumed that your monicker referred to the year of your birth but, if your grandparents were married in 1946, that would have required quite a miracle for your parents - age 7 in 1953?!?!?! |
Jasoncw Member Username: Jasoncw
Post Number: 216 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 164.76.189.121
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 3:28 pm: | |
yeah, I thought that was your birth year too. Lies and deception!!! |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 978 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 4:18 pm: | |
Haha. Nope. Its the year Detroit's population peaked and the year my mother was born. But, I'm glad I've been mistaken for an old person.It shows my maturity. Good catch on that one guys! |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 784 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.96.231.230
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 4:48 pm: | |
Good Thread. Here's grandma Pearl Redfield Downing, 1878-1966, photo at age 19 in 1897. She raised her family in the 20s and 30s at 1301 Virginia Park. Went by there on my last trip to Detroit; house hasn't changed much although the neighborhood looks kind of nasty any more. (Message edited by Ray1936 on September 06, 2006) |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 440 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.141.42
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 6:55 pm: | |
Darn this newfangled technology, I can't post my G-ma pic. I resized it and still got an error message. Anyone want to help me out? I can email it to someone who knows what they are doing and doesn't mind posting it. |
Nedab3 Member Username: Nedab3
Post Number: 96 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 216.96.58.127
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 7:14 pm: | |
Hey 1953 Where on Wayburn did your gparents live? I was there in 1946. 4798 Wayburn. It was always a battle between the Catholics and Lutherans. |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6784 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 7:22 pm: | |
<---- Pam, click here. |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6785 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:13 pm: | |
From Pam:
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Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 785 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.96.231.230
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:19 pm: | |
Pam, gramma was a real flapper! Great photo! |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 979 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 65.54.155.55
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:55 pm: | |
5517 Wayburn Nedab3. The Hess Family, Charles and Clara. My grandma is Ruth. I think they were Catholics. |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 980 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 65.54.155.55
| Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 9:55 pm: | |
Did you know them? |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 441 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.45.199
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 6:30 am: | |
Thanks Jeff for the post assist. That was taken at a photo studio somewhere in Detroit, don't know where. I don't know if I would say she was a flapper since she was already married with kids by this time but I guess she wanted to get decked out for the pic. I thought Jane and Mtm would like the outfit. (by the way, the hand in the pic belongs to her first hub, who was not my grandpa so I cropped him out!) |
Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 66.178.220.86
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 12:16 pm: | |
Not a problem with reposting my grandmothers pic |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 89 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 12:29 pm: | |
Pam, Loved the outfit! Must admit, though, that the big mystery hand beside her was somewhat creepy until you you explained it. Funny that our parents seemed so scandalized about divorce and remarriages (especially when former Catholic daughters married divorces) when their parent's generation often had multiple marriages. One Busia was divorced at a very young age (20s?) and the other widowed, under unusual circumstances, when she was quite young also (30s?) Both eventually remarried, of course. Lowell BIG THANKS for restoring the original pic. that started this thread. I DO often miss the classier days when people cared what they look like. *sigh* (Message edited by mtm on September 07, 2006) |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2942 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.81.50.7
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 12:37 pm: | |
[ItsJeff makes amends^^ after nun cracks his knuckles with ruler. ] What a great pic Pam - pure flapper era. I am curious as to the composition of her legware. Are those some sort of spats? |
Janesback Member Username: Janesback
Post Number: 69 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 69.152.236.153
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:11 pm: | |
Pam, yes you are right, I love yours as well. What an outfit, huh? Shes precious. Thanks again for the post.Love it.......Jane |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 442 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 67.107.47.65
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:12 pm: | |
quote:I am curious as to the composition of her legware. Are those some sort of spats?
No, I think she must be wearing white stockings and black and white shoes. The black part of the shoe is blending in with the shadows and it is making her white foot look odd. I can't ask her though since she passed away many years ago. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1559 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.24.61
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:14 pm: | |
After going through about 30 lbs of old photos, I like this one of a toddler Hornwrecker and his maternal grandmother, taken around 1961. The car is a 56 Buick Special, two-tone green.
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Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6793 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:19 pm: | |
Grandma Hornwrecker looked like a tough cookie. Awesome car. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 443 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 67.107.47.65
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:31 pm: | |
Aww for 'lil Hornwrecker. Cute. |
Mtm Member Username: Mtm
Post Number: 91 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 134.67.6.11
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 1:36 pm: | |
Okay, Heeeeerrrrrreeee's Babczi (circa est. 1922). Note the hairnet, though she didn't work in the food industry, and the spiffy pointed shoes. This was before she would roll her stockings to just below her knees... at least I don't think her stockings were rolled because there are no lumps. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2945 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.81.50.7
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 2:15 pm: | |
Why isn't little Hornwrecker honking that horn? On second thought, I wouldn't cross gramma. And who is the guy lurking behind Gramma? Gramps? |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1560 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.18.77
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 4:28 pm: | |
I don't ever recall her being angry; very kind, gentle woman, but she could pick up a fifty pound sack of potatoes like it was nothing. Perhaps that is why we all behaved around her. We always watched the hockey games together (she liked the fights), and the Three Stooges on tv, much to my mother's consternation. Lowell, I do have a similar photo of me and my grandfather, but that would be for a different thread. |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 985 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 65.54.154.117
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 10:18 pm: | |
I just love old photos. Here are some more of mine. First we have Great-Grandma and Grandpa Hess on their wedding day in Detroit in 1915: And here they are again, some years later, posing in the basement of their Wayburn Street home with the in-laws, my Great-Grandma and Grandpa Reblin (of Nottingham Street):
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Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5835 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 10:47 pm: | |
Here's another: This is my wife's grandmother. The photo is a surpries bridal shower at work. She worked at Detroit Edison. I belive this was the Washington Blvd. Office. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1171 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 10:57 pm: | |
Found a pix of both Grand Mothers along with my Mother and a freshly minted PSIP
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Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1172 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:11 pm: | |
This is from Easter 1964 and shows Hornwrecker's and PSIP's other Grandmother.
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Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria
Post Number: 1291 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137
| Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:17 pm: | |
Great photos and stories ... |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6835 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133
| Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 11:10 pm: | |
Hornwrecker and Psip are related? |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5839 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12
| Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 11:34 pm: | |
Yeah, like brothers... Where have you been? |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1572 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.24.42
| Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 11:50 pm: | |
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit today, is it Itsjeff? Speaking of suits, what the hell ever possessed my parents to put me in a red jacket? It must have been a hand me down. (Message edited by Hornwrecker on September 08, 2006) |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1173 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.60.45.70
| Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 12:56 am: | |
you look like a minature Guy Lombardo. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 448 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 4.229.81.107
| Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 6:47 am: | |
quote:Speaking of suits, what the hell ever possessed my parents to put me in a red jacket?
It sort of matches the Easter basket. I have another pic, can anybody help me post it? (Message edited by Pam on September 09, 2006) |
Sarge Member Username: Sarge
Post Number: 309 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.28.88.45
| Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 8:18 am: | |
Grandpa and Grandma Gornbein in front of Scott Fountain on Belle Isle in June 1938:
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Nedab3 Member Username: Nedab3
Post Number: 97 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 216.96.58.127
| Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 2:44 pm: | |
Attn 1953: no I don't recognize name. They lived a few blocks away from 4798 Wayburn. Probably saw them at Big Bear Market on E. Warren. LOL |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 990 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 1:40 pm: | |
Haha! Probably. P.S. Grandma Gornbein was a hottie! |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 470 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 67.107.47.65
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 12:08 pm: | |
Bump Too many depressing threads, we need more Grandmas! |
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 116 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.217.173.137
| Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 11:25 pm: | |
There's something humbling about historic human photos of Detroit whenever I look at them. Thanks for sharing these. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2978 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 4:17 pm: | |
Gramma returns! I spotted these two look alike beauties coming out of the Greektown Casino Garage. :0 BTW, while doing the magnification for this I notice they both had headwear, like a nurse would wear... |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2979 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 4:21 pm: | |
As I suspected the watertower was the one on Dumouchelles Art Auction House at Jefferson. |
Psip
Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1184 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 4:38 pm: | |
Nice work Lowell, to bad the parking gargage didn't use the same style exterior as the Ferry building. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 483 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 7:27 pm: | |
I'd still like to post a pic of my other grandma. Can anyone help me? |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2984 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 12:56 am: | |
Pam, shoot me an email. Click the Email Lowell link at the left. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4343 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 1:12 am: | |
Nice work on the twin pictures. Thanks. Very excellent locators. jjaba. |
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck
Post Number: 364 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 7:52 am: | |
Thanks to all who've shared treasured keepsakes! This is so heartwarming . . . . . . and motivates me to open a frame and fire up the scanner. (Stay tuned.) Tip o' the hat to Rocket City for putting it aptly: quote:There's something humbling about historic human photos
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Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 14 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 8:10 am: | |
Another one of my Grama who started the post. Sitting on the fountain on the left.
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Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 6876 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 9:42 am: | |
Pam, I gotcher back. Send me the other pics. |
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck
Post Number: 368 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 11:59 am: | |
Hear, hear Tokennojokin! Thanks VERY MUCH for inspiring us to weave this uplifting thread. Next time anyone suggests we're all about whines, insults, trivialities and negativity, I've got 2 words: Grama's pics. I've also got 2 grandmas' pics . . . Reality Check next to Omi (Grandma) Anna, with my brother on lap (Washington Hts/NYC, 1954) Maternal grandparents Alice + Siegmund Kobner, whom I never met due to terrorism in Germany (Bresslau, late 1930s) It's not even noon Saturday, and this feels like the most meaningful thing I'll do online this weekend. So thanks also to Lowell for incubating a community where this blossoms. (Message edited by RealityCheck on September 16, 2006) |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 484 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 5:35 pm: | |
Jeff: Lowell offered first so I sent it to him, thanks anyway. Aww for 'lil Realitycheck and bro. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 488 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 6:36 pm: | |
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Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 489 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 6:40 pm: | |
Thanks to Lowell for resizing and making the pic look nicer. Grandma is second from the left. Other ladies are her sisters-in-law and a cousin-in-law. I think this is at my great grandparents' house on the eastside. (Message edited by Pam on September 17, 2006) |
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck
Post Number: 369 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 8:59 pm: | |
Shoo-whee, Pam - - You sure have a fine-lookin' set of ancestors, stylin' with major attitude in their perms and tailored jackets! And whassup with Our Gang on the steps? Those dapper lads in fedoras and jackets look like they're trying to shake down the lil' guy for his marbles, his cap or his overdue vig on the bubble gum money they fronted. Definitely an Easter Sunday classic -- thanks for sharing. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 490 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 7:11 am: | |
quote:And whassup with Our Gang on the steps? Those dapper lads in fedoras and jackets look like they're trying to shake down the lil' guy for his marbles, his cap or his overdue vig on the bubble gum money they fronted.
Those are my uncle and cousins. I think they all got along so probably no shake down in progress. |
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck
Post Number: 371 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 7:49 am: | |
quote:Those are my uncles and cousins.
Which one is Spanky? It truly is a delightful scene, Pam . . . a moment of postwar Americana we all can savor. Just 8 months earlier, Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered. No wonder your quintet is all smiles, overflowing with sass and jaunty confidence. And one of your family archivists had the good sense to mark the photo's date . . . . . . never imagining strangers would admire it 60 years later on a Buck Rogers-like invention. Pretty cool, this community family album. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 491 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 7:55 am: | |
quote:And one of your family archivists had the good sense to mark the photo's date
That would be Grandma herself. |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 156 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 11:01 am: | |
One thing I noticed. Why did everyone dress up formal almost all the time before the 1970s, then it slowly faded away and gave to the casual jeans and t-shirts? |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2987 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 11:37 am: | |
That sunny picture evoked the same notions RealityCheck, the first spring without war, the soldiers back home, Detroit flush with money from the war manufacturing boom. A triumphant springtime of hope, Detroit at its pinnacle of wealth, population and power. Pam, do you know the address of that house? |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 157 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 11:40 am: | |
TY Lowell. I've been wondering about that for a while. Too bad we can't go back to those days. |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 158 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 11:47 am: | |
Lowell I have another question. Its about a forum page. Could I create a forum that involves all the famous and long missed restaurants in Detroit. I wanted to be something like the sports designated forum on here. |
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck
Post Number: 372 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 11:59 am: | |
Our founder and hero paints with words as well as with acrylic and pixels: quote:A triumphant springtime of hope, Detroit at its pinnacle of wealth, population and power.
Vivid image in just 14 words shows Lowell's 'micropointilism' extends beyond canvases. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2989 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 12:03 pm: | |
Dtown1, a thread like that is not created on the spot. It evolves by need and circumstance. I suggest that you start the thread, ala Firehouses or Old Car Factories. If it takes wings we can refine and tweak it as we need. If it fades below the pruning line and is of good quality, it will be moved to the Hall of Fame where posting can continue. |
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1
Post Number: 160 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 12:19 pm: | |
ok ty Lowell. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 492 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 12:31 pm: | |
quote:Pam, do you know the address of that house?
I checked with my Mom, she says it was 3177 E. Hancock. |