Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5958 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 6:37 am: | |
Here is today's P.D.J. |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1070 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:12 am: | |
Where will the girlies dance now? |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 5148 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:14 am: | |
Good riddance to bad porno rubbish! The Widsorites don't need a ghetto bar in their city. |
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub
Post Number: 106 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:51 am: | |
RIP: The Chappell House The Chappell House, aka The Lido, aka Rumrunners/The President's Club was a very popular roadhouse during Prohibition, 1919-1931. Built within a few feet of Sandwich Street, it had a sign over the entrance that read "At All Hours." Accompanying posters on its railings advertised frog legs, chicken and fish dinners. from "Postcards from the Past, Volume 1: Windsor and the Border Cities" http://walkerville.com/postcards/index.html |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 2890 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 10:13 am: | |
nice stuff ... An all hours roadhouse "speak" from back in the olden tymes (I'll bet it predated prohibition as an easy house) reborn as a late century nude dancing bar gets razed in the 21st century. On the Detroit side of things most of those places were smaller and nondescript, In the area around the CBD very few survived the riverfront urban renewal projects from the 50s-70s, let alone the slash and burn of the 80's and 90s. IMO Detroit's history as a sleazy bordertown (predating prohibition, btw) runs deep in Detroit's culture. |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5959 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 12:25 pm: | |
True Rustic. This place was waaaay west. If you drove straight across the river from this place, you'd end up in Delray. The reason for the location is kind of strange. Back in the 1870's some investors were drilling for oil out that way, when they hit a sulphur spring... Quackery being what it was back then, quickly established a healthy Mineral Spring. A canal was dreged out to the river, and ferries brought people by the boatloads. Hotels were quickly built to house all the visitors. The spring dried up and the fad passed, however the Chapel Hotel was very popular. So popular in fact that a second hotel was built to replace the first one around 1904. That second building, was the one that was demolished this week. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4447 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 2:19 pm: | |
Sitting Shiva saying Kaddish for the Tigers and Rum Runners. Love from Bugsy Seigel, Purples. |