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Lowell
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gramma
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.]
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Janesback
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which one is Grandma? Love the 2 tone shoes, they're back in style.........Love, Jane
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Tokennojokin
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the one on the left.
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Naturalsister
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Give it a minute. We have many experts that will have your answer shortly.

Please stand by.

later - naturalsister
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Miketoronto
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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.
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Psip
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The building on the Left, with the angle front door, looks like the old Wayne County Morgue
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Psip
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So, if my hunch is correct, they would have been on Brush, just north of Lafayette next to the D.M. Ferry building.
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Motorcitymayor2026
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that looks like the DM Ferry.... i think u got it Psip!
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Psip
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This may be the building they are standing next to;\
Ferry
notice the slight arched windows on the first floor.
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Motorcitymayor2026
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and the low windows on the bottom....

good job
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Mikem
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Psip is correct. It is the old coroner's court building (morgue) in the background, southeast corner of Brush & E Lafayette:

 Wayne Co Morgue 1923

That would place them on the west side of Brush, north of Lafayette, where the Ferry-Morse Seed Co filled the entire block.
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Psip
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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.
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Neilr
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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.
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Mikem
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Morgue history

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.
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Kathleen
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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?
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Mikem
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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.
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Steelworker
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you all are amazzing
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Erikd
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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.
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Psip
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This was an easy one... bring on the hard stuff :-)
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Pam
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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?
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Tokennojokin
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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.
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Kathleen
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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?
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Fury13
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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.
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Kathleen
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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?
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Downtown_dave
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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.
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Dougw
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Am I the only one who can't see "Grama" at all?
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Mtm
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Dougw,

You're not alone. Interesting reading the site IDs but no clue without the picture.
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Thnk2mch
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The pictures were deleted. The location was figured out, and I guess considered case closed.
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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?
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Janesback
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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
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Mtm
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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!)
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Pam
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We could all post pics of our Grandmas and turn it into a general Grandma thread. :-)
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Aiw
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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
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Aiw - you gotta be wrong.

I am almost positive that is the Luxor,
in Las Vegas.

(Message edited by thnk2mch on September 05, 2006)
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Lowell
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Pyramid stage at Hart Plaza?
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Itsjeff
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Itsnana, far left, taken 1910 in Pontiac, with her mother and sister.

oldpic
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Tokennojokin
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Ask itsjeff why the pic was taken off he can tell you.
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1953
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My Grandparents wedding at St. John Berchman Church in Detroit (1946):


The afterparty at grandma's house on Wayburn:
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Tokennojokin
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Nice Pics
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1953
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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...
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Mtm
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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?!?!?! shock
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Jasoncw
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yeah, I thought that was your birth year too.

Lies and deception!!!
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1953
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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!
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Ray1936
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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.
ma

(Message edited by Ray1936 on September 06, 2006)
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Pam
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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.
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Nedab3
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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.
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<----

Pam, click here.
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Itsjeff
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From Pam:
baba
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Ray1936
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Pam, gramma was a real flapper! Great photo!
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1953
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5517 Wayburn Nedab3. The Hess Family, Charles and Clara. My grandma is Ruth. I think they were Catholics.
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1953
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Did you know them?
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Pam
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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!)
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Not a problem with reposting my grandmothers pic
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Mtm
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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)
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Lowell
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[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?
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Pam, yes you are right, I love yours as well. What an outfit, huh? Shes precious. Thanks again for the post.Love it.......Jane
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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.
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Hornwrecker
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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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Grandma Hornwrecker looked like a tough cookie. Awesome car.
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Pam
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Aww for 'lil Hornwrecker. Cute.
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Mtm
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Okay, Heeeeerrrrrreeee's Babczi (circa est. 1922).
babczi
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.
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Lowell
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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?
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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.
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1953
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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
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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.
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Psip
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Found a pix of both Grand Mothers along with my Mother and a freshly minted PSIP

Grand Mas
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This is from Easter 1964 and shows Hornwrecker's and PSIP's other Grandmother.
Easter
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Hysteria
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Great photos and stories ...
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Itsjeff
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Hornwrecker and Psip are related?
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Aiw
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Yeah, like brothers... Where have you been?
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Hornwrecker
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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)
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Psip
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you look like a minature Guy Lombardo.
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Pam
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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)
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Grandpa and Grandma Gornbein in front of Scott Fountain on Belle Isle in June 1938:

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Nedab3
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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
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1953
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Haha! Probably.

P.S. Grandma Gornbein was a hottie!
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Pam
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Bump
Too many depressing threads, we need more Grandmas!
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There's something humbling about historic human photos of Detroit whenever I look at them. Thanks for sharing these.
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Gramma returns! I spotted these two look alike beauties coming out of the Greektown Casino Garage. :0
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BTW, while doing the magnification for this I notice they both had headwear, like a nurse would wear...
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As I suspected the watertower was the one on Dumouchelles Art Auction House at Jefferson.
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Psip
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Nice work Lowell, to bad the parking gargage didn't use the same style exterior as the Ferry building.
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Pam
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I'd still like to post a pic of my other grandma. Can anyone help me?
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Pam, shoot me an email. Click the Email Lowell link at the left.
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Nice work on the twin pictures.
Thanks. Very excellent locators.
jjaba.
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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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Another one of my Grama who started the post. Sitting on the fountain on the left.

Muir Fountain
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Itsjeff
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Pam, I gotcher back. Send me the other pics.
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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 . . .
1
Reality Check next to
Omi (Grandma) Anna,

with my brother on lap
(Washington Hts/NYC, 1954)
2
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)
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Jeff: Lowell offered first so I sent it to him, thanks anyway.

Aww for 'lil Realitycheck and bro.
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1946
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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)
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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.
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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. :-)
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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.
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quote:

And one of your family archivists had the good sense to mark the photo's date




That would be Grandma herself.
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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?
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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?
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TY Lowell. I've been wondering about that for a while. Too bad we can't go back to those days.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ok ty Lowell.
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quote:

Pam, do you know the address of that house?




I checked with my Mom, she says it was 3177 E. Hancock.

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