  Crow_t_robot Member Username: Crow_t_robot Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2007 |
Can anyone tell me where the old CF Smith store were located in Detroit? Are any of the old buildings still standing or have they been torn down? | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3009 Registered: 10-2003 |
1940:    1946:  | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1104 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mikem amazes me once more. | ||
Drbob7133 Member Username: Drbob7133 Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2007 |
my first job as a teenager was at a cf smith store in royal oak, michigan.it was located on 11 mile road. just a short distance east of woodward. it was a very small store compared to todays stores. that was over 62 years ago. oh yes this is also my first post on this site. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 1476 Registered: 12-2005 |
Welcome, Drbob7133! | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1106 Registered: 01-2005 |
Welcome, Drbob.....methinks maybe someone older than me has joined up. My birth year is in my user name. | ||
Drbob7133 Member Username: Drbob7133 Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2007 |
ray i have you beat by three years | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3643 Registered: 10-2003 |
Welcome to the forum Crow and Drbob. You might enjoy this sad past thread... | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4826 Registered: 11-2003 |
14019 Wyoming is my CF Smiths. Remember it well. Just South was an A&P. Both are on Eastside of Wyoming, N. and S. of Schoolcraft, Detroit 04. Guys had pinchers to bring down cans of corn. You carried wire baskets with your items. Large hand-painted paper signs were in front windows advertising the specials. jjaba, Westsider. Welcome drbob7133. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1546 Registered: 11-2003 |
Birmingham had a C F Smith Grocery in the 40's. It was on Maple, down by the Wabeek building. You went in there, told the clerk what you wanted, and often times he would get the items for you while you just stood there at the counter. The grocer had those long wooden poles with a gadget at the end that he would use to clamp the item off the upper shelves that he could not otherwise reach. Can you picture this being done today? Talk about personal service. | ||
Chuckles Member Username: Chuckles Post Number: 5 Registered: 02-2007 |
CF Smith Joy Rd and Greenview, zone 28,across the street and down 2 blocks from B&D Drugs... been gone for many, many years. Dry cleaners there now with bars on all the windows and the door. chuckles | ||
Caldogven Member Username: Caldogven Post Number: 17 Registered: 05-2006 |
I remember getting a wagon full of packaged coal from the store on Forest near Cadillac, enough to keep us going til we had enough money to buy a ton or so of the real thing. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4833 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Rock knows CF Smiths. Exactly. If you sit near old timers at ballgames, and a guy hits a lazy flyball to center fielder, the fan yells, "Can o' corn, can o' corn." Now reread The Rock's explanation. jjaba, Big The Rock Fan. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1552 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba---truly the Man of Analogy. the_rock ( still shaking his head in amazement) |
