  Eastside_man Member Username: Eastside_man Post Number: 5 Registered: 09-2007 |
use to be at 8 mile an Schoener.Was tore down to build an Arlands. | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1183 Registered: 12-2005 |
View old Motor City Speedway Information and photos here. | ||
Eastside_man Member Username: Eastside_man Post Number: 6 Registered: 09-2007 |
Does anyone remmember Jupiters I think it was at Gratiot just befor 10 mile. Drive thru there in my 65 Chevelle many a times. | ||
Kville Member Username: Kville Post Number: 80 Registered: 04-2007 |
We discussed this in another thread, but Jupiter's was the successor to a drive-in called Kozy Korner that had been on the west side of Harper between 7 & 8 Mile Rd and had been torn down when the expressway came through. Kozy Korner (along with the Rainbow Drive-In next door to it) advertised its foot-long hot dogs on its sign. When Jupiter's first opened, it said "Formerly Kozy Korner" at the bottom of its sign. My family ate there fairly regularly for a while until one time when my mom had some kind of insect inside the bun of her burger. She didn't know it until she bit into it and it sprayed something in her mouth. I remember that her tongue was all green afterwards. The waitresses were really upset and everyone apologized all over the place, noting that they should have toasted the buns. It offered little consolation to my mom and we never went back (obviously). | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 119 Registered: 12-2003 |
Very sad that this track is gone. I loved all of the old photos. Anyone have any idea where you could find some of the old advertising posters? Is it just me or can you see the remnant of the northern short chute in the modern Google map photo. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl =en&t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=42.451362,- 82.98301&spn=0.005304,0.010042 &z=17&om=1 | ||
Eastside_man Member Username: Eastside_man Post Number: 8 Registered: 09-2007 |
Excuse me Kville I am speaking of the Jupiters that was on Gratiot between 9 and 10 mile. | ||
Kville Member Username: Kville Post Number: 81 Registered: 04-2007 |
Eastside_man - that's what I was talking about too. When Kozy Korner was torn down because of the expressway, it relocated to Gratiot out in East Detroit as Jupiter's. | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 83 Registered: 06-2007 |
"Is it just me or can you see the remnant of the northern short chute in the modern Google map photo." I noticed that a couple of months ago. You can compare it to the DTE maps and match it up! I am no where comp. savvy enough to post the pics, maybe some one can. I keep meaning to go there and check it out. The "local.live.com" shows it better. (Message edited by karl jr. on September 21, 2007) | ||
Hornist9 Member Username: Hornist9 Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can remember as a small child being able to watch some of the races on TV. I think the announcer was Fred Wolf and they were broadcast on WXYZ. We lived in Center Line, and on quiet nights, we could the racing. Too bad the track went belly up for a shopping center and a now gone Movie House (The Warren Cinema). | ||
Goirish1966 Member Username: Goirish1966 Post Number: 27 Registered: 02-2007 |
andy barto, the motor city speedway promoter, also tried his hand in promoting professional wrestling there in the summer of 1949. the jupiter drive-in was located on the east side of gratiot, in the first block south of stephens (9 1/2 mile road). the old building was recently torn down, but my mind is blank as to what is there now. |
