  Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2005 |
I have been putting reviews about Detroit on yelp.com, which I got into because of my NYC brother. It is a cool way to let people know about places that are worth going to that may not be in the papers. There is a function where you can make lists, and it got me thinking. Could I make a list of places that have moved twice to get further and further from Detroit? I can think of two offhand- Brightmoor Tabernacle---Detroit to Southfield to Novi Catholic Central---- Detroit to Redford to Novi Can anyone think of any others? | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 163 Registered: 09-2006 |
Detroit Pistons: Detroit to Pontiac to Auburn Hills | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 164 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rooms, I checked out yelp.com. Can we merge this thread with the Craigslist one? Detroit is not on the main menu of cities and I feel slighted. In fact, Detroit's not even listed under Michigan cities -- only East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Muskegon there. I am going to write such an email to those people. By the way, what's going on in your yelp photo, Rooms? Are you flashing a gang signal? | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 277 Registered: 06-2005 |
University of Michigan, 1837 Michigan State Capitol, 1847 | ||
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 24 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yeah, they have some kind of elite thing you can get if you do a lot of good reviews, and it seems only the "cool cities" can join that. Still, being able to put up things like Rono's that don't have much of an internet presence (except 1 Metro Times review) or Tires R Us which has none at all, is pretty cool....Let us know if yelp responds at all.... Merge away if you'd like....After all, its just the internet.... (Message edited by rooms222 on August 31, 2007) | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1988 Registered: 06-2006 |
lol... what exactly is the point of making such a list? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1568 Registered: 10-2006 |
Interesting fact is that even the University of Detroit Mercy moved from downtown out to what was then in the 1920s rural area at McNichols and Livernois. The Jesuits owning some property out in Clarkston then almost moved the university out there as recently as a decade ago. Fortunately for the City of Detroit, UDM chose to redefine its mission to embrace the urban community! | ||
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2005 |
I guess part of it is to bring some Detroit style to yelp..... It is a little too demographically and geographically based for those considered to be in the upscale category for both (like maybe the downtowners here in the D that DO have way over $30 to blow on groceries, lol.. they are the select group yelp is appealing to, at least in the beginning...just like myspace before it became popular with the young and foolish). People have lists on yelp like: when I come home to the D, I go to so and so....or bakeries across america I love....This attempt to make a list could be interpreted as places where fear reigned supreme not once, but twice....Also, I'd like to see of there is a pattern...Is this only a westward progression to Novi or did people do Detroit-Warren- Sterling Heights??????? Oh yeah, about the pic, I could claim that the picture is being unposed or "edgy." It seems people on there on take posed pictures only if a giant prop is also in the frame and the subject is off to one side, to not be too conventional....:-) (Message edited by rooms222 on August 31, 2007) | ||
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 26 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wow, you are right, we might have another Cheesecake Factory scenario here. Yelp has 21 cities that appear on the main page as index cities where you can type www.yelp.com/cityname and get a main page. I looked up the list of Census metro areas on wikipedia (Detroit is 9th, which does includes ON, which they do not cover currently). I then looked at the yelp index cities. Fourteen of the first fifteen have an index page....all but Detroit!!! Only one city listed from 16-20 has an index page. The question is, did they use another metric, or is Detroit being left out....again? P.S. Also looked by Census Combined Statistical Area, where areas are merged together (e.g. San Francisco-San Jose). Detroit is #12 here. Again 13 of the first 14 have a listing, just not Detroit. Minneapolis, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Orlando are the 15-20's that do not have listings. Because of the mergers, this list has no # 11,13,16, and 20. (Message edited by rooms222 on August 31, 2007) | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1517 Registered: 04-2006 |
Yeah, I couldn't even find it when I went directly to yelp.com. I had to do a search query... | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 165 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gather up your gang buddies Rooms. Let's go put a beatdown on yelp until they ... well, yelp. We'll get Detroit on that index yet. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1573 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, it looked like Ohio only had one city index and Charlotte, NC was not on their either, so don't get too hot and bothered. http://www.yelp.com/locations | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2167 Registered: 10-2003 |
My Grandparents: Moms side: Detroit to Livonia to Walled Lake Dads side: Detroit to Redford to Novi My Parents: Novi to West Bloomfield to White Lake Me: West Bloomfield to Farmington to Ferndale to... hey, am I going the wrong way? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1575 Registered: 10-2006 |
K Mart--downtown to Troy to Hoffman Estates, Ill. or something like that. | ||
Daf Member Username: Daf Post Number: 17 Registered: 02-2007 |
Musicians Union - DFM Local 5? Where were they before 7 & Schaefer? They're in Southfield now. | ||
Daf Member Username: Daf Post Number: 18 Registered: 02-2007 |
Comerica - downtown to Auburn Hills to B. F. Tejas... | ||
Quozl Member Username: Quozl Post Number: 1367 Registered: 07-2005 |
My Grandparents: Maternal: Detroit to Southfield to Detroit to Farmington Hills to Southfield (Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery) Paternal: Detroit to Dearborn to Southfield (Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery) My Parents: Mom: Detroit to Livonia to Houghton Lake Dad: Detroit to Melvindale to Dearborn to Tecumseh Me: Detroit until I was 18 then to Chicago, IL to Key West, FL to Jacksonville, FL to Gainesville, FL to Auburn, AL to Tallahassee, FL to Sarasota, FL to Mount Dora, FL to Lake Mary, FL to Kuwait City, Kuwait to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Winter Park, FL to Lincoln, MA to The Woodlands, TX to Sugar Land, TX to Detroit, MI. (Message edited by quozl on August 31, 2007) | ||
Shirlselects Member Username: Shirlselects Post Number: 4 Registered: 08-2007 |
Me: it wasn't to get away, it just worked out that way. Detroit to Livonia, To Detroit, To Livonia, to Florida. I still have lots of good memories of Detroit and if I ever win the lottery I'm going to buy something in the 48202 zip code, (my old neighborhood) when it was only Detroit 2. I'm so glad for this forum to bring back pleasant memories. Oh, Providence Hospital on West Grand Blvd, where I was born to somewhere in the suburbs | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6422 Registered: 02-2004 |
My sister, Detroit to Lansing, MI. to Seattle Wa. My cousin, David: Detroit to Chicago, Ill. to Plainfield, Ill. to Chicago My Uncle Donald: Detroit to Rochester Hills, MI to West Bloomfield MI. My cousin Kimberly: Detroit to Dearborn, MI. My cousin Tiffany: Detroit to Dearborn Heights, MI. My cousin Mike: Detroit to Los Angeles, CA to Atlanta, GA. My cousin Irene: Detroit to New York City , NY. to Connecticut back to NYC, NY. My Dad: Detroit to Talahassee, FL, to Atlanta, GA. back to Detroit to Seattle WA. My mom: Detroit to Westland, MI. My cousin Wendy: Detroit to Waco, TX. to Dallas TX. my cousin Bruce: Detroit to Virginia Beach, VA. to Okinawa Japan, to Bellevue, NEB. back to Okinawa, Japan. My Aunt Shirley, Detroit to Bellevue, NEB. My uncle Marvin: Detroit to Pontiac, MI. | ||
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer Post Number: 361 Registered: 08-2004 |
Second City Detroit-Novi | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2189 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroit to Pontiac?! Out of the frying pan and into the fryer, eh? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2190 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Second City Detroit-Novi" You should have seen their shows after that move was made. They were clearly NOT pleased with being moved to Novi. Lots of songs about parking lots. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 184 Registered: 02-2004 |
^ JL I never thought that was a good move--I haven't been there since. You are preaching to the choir though, Detroit is misrepresented. | ||
Cmubryan Member Username: Cmubryan Post Number: 453 Registered: 11-2003 |
Me: Southfield to West Bloomfield to Detroit The rest of my family (parents, uncle, etc.): Detroit to Southfield/Oak Park to West Bloomfield | ||
Homer Member Username: Homer Post Number: 227 Registered: 08-2004 |
JL Hudsons Detroit to every suburb including Traverse City to oblivion... Me: Detroit to Pinkney to Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti then back to Detroit. QOZL are you on the run from the law? | ||
Monahan568 Member Username: Monahan568 Post Number: 184 Registered: 04-2004 |
Motown Records - Detroit to L.A. ('72) to New York (bought by MCA, '88) Uniroyal - Detroit to Akron, Ohio(Goodrich merger, '88) to Greenville, SC (acquired by Michelin,'90) Vernors- Detroit to Livonia (bought by A&W Concentrate Co.,'87 ) to Farmington Hills (A&W HQ move, '97) general population- away from here | ||
Missnmich Member Username: Missnmich Post Number: 611 Registered: 11-2004 |
Vlasic Detroit Lathrup Village West Bloomfield Bought up by multinational | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1522 Registered: 04-2006 |
Comerica was HQ'd in Auburn Hills? | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6431 Registered: 02-2004 |
WOW! talk about economic flight. When industry flight from Detroit to the burbs, the people went also. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 69 Registered: 07-2007 |
Quozl - now i know who you are....  | ||
Young_detroiter Member Username: Young_detroiter Post Number: 213 Registered: 08-2004 |
Personal Relocations: Detroit (18 yrs) > East Lansing (1 yr) > Monterrey, Mexico (1 yr) > East Lansing (-present) WORLD OF FAITH Christian Center Detroit > Redford > Southfield (possibly a couple more locations in-between) | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 254 Registered: 08-2007 |
Me: Detroit--Southfield---Brimley- --Southfield Chrysler HQ: Detroit--Highland Park--Auburn Hills | ||
Ahartz Member Username: Ahartz Post Number: 7 Registered: 04-2007 |
chrysler from highland park to Auburn Hills GM---from the New Center to the RenCen Little Caesars Pizza-farmington to Downtown... | ||
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy Post Number: 111 Registered: 04-2007 |
Temple Baptist Church-- North End to Grand River to West Chicago near Telegraph to Plymouth Twp. (Northridge Church-- even changed their name...) | ||
Ericdetfan Member Username: Ericdetfan Post Number: 152 Registered: 02-2007 |
funny thing is that Temple baptist (northridge) was in the same building that Word of faith was in when they were in Redford. Both have since moved further out...The building in Redford is now owned by Detroit World Outreach, which moved from a much smaller building in Dearborn Heights. |
