Mickeymac Member Username: Mickeymac
Post Number: 51 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 6:00 pm: | |
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera
Post Number: 1028 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 8:47 pm: | |
Check'in in from Allen Park, home of the Big Tire. |
Girlygirl Member Username: Girlygirl
Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 1:13 am: | |
Currently residing in Trenton. |
Alley Member Username: Alley
Post Number: 775 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 2:09 am: | |
married to a South Rockwood... ...er? ...ite? ...inian? ...iod? |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1603 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:00 am: | |
Went to HS in the AP... |
Tammypio Member Username: Tammypio
Post Number: 186 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 12:56 pm: | |
Livin' in Lincoln Park and lovin' it! Grew up in Hamtramck (as did my husband) and work in the D! |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3866 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:12 pm: | |
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. |
Alley Member Username: Alley
Post Number: 782 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:32 pm: | |
I've always wanted to live on Champagne and Dix :P |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1607 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:51 pm: | |
I know someone who lives at Champagne and Brest |
Lpg Member Username: Lpg
Post Number: 94 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 8:10 pm: | |
Lincoln Park. Family here goes back to 1914 when it was part of Ecorse Township. Also my wife is from LP. Both LPHS grads. |
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera
Post Number: 1031 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:34 pm: | |
Alley, LMAO. Thats a classic downriver joke thats been told for many years. Hey, maybe you should be a dancer at Chixx on Dix? |
Mickeymac Member Username: Mickeymac
Post Number: 53 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 2:35 pm: | |
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. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3873 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 7:14 pm: | |
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. |
Alley Member Username: Alley
Post Number: 787 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 6:52 pm: | |
Downriviera, is it really the "Finest Female Adult Entertainment"? |
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1625 Registered: 12-2007
| Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 5:28 pm: | |
It's almost as good as Atlantis... |
Lpg Member Username: Lpg
Post Number: 95 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 7:41 pm: | |
Or Henry VIII's in Southgate. Or for the old timers Starvin' Marvins. |
Alley Member Username: Alley
Post Number: 789 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 7:58 pm: | |
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... |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 9663 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:01 pm: | |
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) |
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera
Post Number: 1033 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 8:53 pm: | |
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. |
Lpg Member Username: Lpg
Post Number: 96 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 9:55 am: | |
Remember "Little Martini" at Sygo's in Southgate in the early 70's ? |