Discuss Detroit » Archives - Connections II » Downriver Roll Call « Previous Next »
Top of pageBottom of page

Mickeymac
Member
Username: Mickeymac

Post Number: 51
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 6:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Didnt see this here so I thought I would start it.


Who here is from or grew up in the Downriver area?

I lived there for about three months five years ago.

Woodhaven represent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Top of pageBottom of page

Downriviera
Member
Username: Downriviera

Post Number: 1028
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 8:47 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Check'in in from Allen Park, home of the Big Tire.
Top of pageBottom of page

Girlygirl
Member
Username: Girlygirl

Post Number: 8
Registered: 06-2007
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 1:13 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Currently residing in Trenton.
Top of pageBottom of page

Alley
Member
Username: Alley

Post Number: 775
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 2:09 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

married to a South Rockwood...
...er?
...ite?
...inian?
...iod?
Top of pageBottom of page

D_mcc
Member
Username: D_mcc

Post Number: 1603
Registered: 12-2007
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:00 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Went to HS in the AP...
Top of pageBottom of page

Tammypio
Member
Username: Tammypio

Post Number: 186
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 12:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Livin' in Lincoln Park and lovin' it! Grew up in Hamtramck (as did my husband) and work in the D!
Top of pageBottom of page

Ray1936
Member
Username: Ray1936

Post Number: 3866
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wife was from Allen Park, right on the border line of Lincoln Park on Southfield just north of Dix (Sears shopping center). Southfield and Roger, actually, NE corner house. Her uncle still lives on Reeck Road in AP.

But she worked in East Dearborn, in the days before you needed to speak Arabic.
Top of pageBottom of page

Alley
Member
Username: Alley

Post Number: 782
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've always wanted to live on Champagne and Dix
:P
Top of pageBottom of page

D_mcc
Member
Username: D_mcc

Post Number: 1607
Registered: 12-2007
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I know someone who lives at Champagne and Brest
Top of pageBottom of page

Lpg
Member
Username: Lpg

Post Number: 94
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 8:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Lincoln Park. Family here goes back to 1914 when it was part of Ecorse Township. Also my wife is from LP. Both LPHS grads.
Top of pageBottom of page

Downriviera
Member
Username: Downriviera

Post Number: 1031
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Alley,

LMAO. Thats a classic downriver joke thats been told for many years. Hey, maybe you should be a dancer at Chixx on Dix?
Top of pageBottom of page

Mickeymac
Member
Username: Mickeymac

Post Number: 53
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 2:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

When I lived in the Downriver area I lived in Willamsburg Square apartments in Woodhaven. My ex gf's parents lived in a trailor park in Lincoln Park. Cant think of the name of it now.
Top of pageBottom of page

Ray1936
Member
Username: Ray1936

Post Number: 3873
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 7:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

By the way, have y'all read in the paper about the major construction job slated for Southfield between I-94 and I-75 in Lincoln/Allen Parks for next year? Gonna mess up traffic there pretty bad.
Top of pageBottom of page

Alley
Member
Username: Alley

Post Number: 787
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 6:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)






Downriviera, is it really the "Finest Female Adult Entertainment"?
Top of pageBottom of page

D_mcc
Member
Username: D_mcc

Post Number: 1625
Registered: 12-2007
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 5:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's almost as good as Atlantis...
Top of pageBottom of page

Lpg
Member
Username: Lpg

Post Number: 95
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 7:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Or Henry VIII's in Southgate. Or for the old timers Starvin' Marvins.
Top of pageBottom of page

Alley
Member
Username: Alley

Post Number: 789
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 7:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Atlantis is where that 17 year old girl died. Her first night stripping there (illegally underage), some guy offered her $5000 to make a porno. She agreed, he gave her cocaine, and she died. Her parents didn't even know she was dancing until the police showed up at their door to tell them she'd died :-(
That place sounds like a hidden gem...
Top of pageBottom of page

Jams
Member
Username: Jams

Post Number: 9663
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

LP again, after running screaming 20 years ago to West Village, after 20 years leaving AP for the East Coast.

Once a Downriver Rat, always...

(Message edited by jams on November 17, 2008)
Top of pageBottom of page

Downriviera
Member
Username: Downriviera

Post Number: 1033
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Atlantis was the home of the original Rambo Wet Panty night where they gave squirt guns to the patrons so you could shoot the girls. They announced many times that you could not shoot the girls in the face, so naturally thats the first thing I did and was promptly thrown out.
Top of pageBottom of page

Lpg
Member
Username: Lpg

Post Number: 96
Registered: 02-2008
Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 9:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Remember "Little Martini" at Sygo's in Southgate in the early 70's ?

Add Your Message Here
Posting is currently disabled in this topic. Contact your discussion moderator for more information.