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Username: Terryh
Post Number: 139
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:32 pm: |    |
Is anyone old enough to remember the areas of the city where street prostitution, after hours gambling, street lottery (numbers)took place in the 50s 60s and 70s? Have locations changed over the years? Was certain types of gambling more predominant in select ethnic enclaves? |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:35 pm: | |
I remember there used to be a lot more porn stuff on Woodward. I think it was around the late 80s, early 90s. |
Ordinary
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Username: Ordinary
Post Number: 121
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:38 pm: | |
I remember the Willis Show Bar. Also Beaver's Topless Shoe Shine! I don't think they really shined any shoes in there. |
Terryh
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Username: Terryh
Post Number: 141
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:43 pm: | |
The wood six girlie show and sassy cat theatre were on woodward. |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 374
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 10:40 pm: | |
I remember Sign of the Beefcarver on 8 mile and Evergreen. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 8275
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 11:18 pm: | |
Only thing I know is around the old Crim on Woodward and Six Mile...the laggards of vice are very amusing.
The theater was turned into a church, the Revival Tabernacle, and for over a year we'd get people wandering in off the street for some distraction from the cares of life...only to get the shock of theirs when they realized their old porno palace was a wee different.
So, yeah, the laggards of vice can be quite amusing. AND that should be the name of a rock group. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 976
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 11:22 pm: | |
Columbia street just east of Woodward had a couple of old houses back in '75-'80, it looked like you could get what ever kind of trouble you wanted there. The girls would approach the cars and discuss terms. Very exciting stuff for us teens to watch happen. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 637
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 11:33 pm: | |
Celebrity House strip joint on Woodward. Quite a place, in the late seventies. (I was young enough that I really shouldn't have been hanging around in a place like that, in a location like that.) Not a grimy, seedy place, either. Total nudity, back then. And those girls were in SHAPE, boy... Not very far from Club Manchester, outside of which the Asian-American Vincent Chin was beaten to death by some drunk assholes who blamed "his people" for all of the layoffs in the auto industry. Gee. Sometimes the Good Ole Days weren't so good. |
Ptero
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Username: Ptero
Post Number: 84
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 12:18 am: | |
Anderson's Gardens on third around the corner from the historic block of Canfield. Lived on Canfield and went in Anderson's once just to see it. The hookers were not happy we were just playing shuffleboard and not interested.
A cop was shot in there once and the whole area was crawling with cops on foot, in cars and helicopters with searchlights looking for the perp.
Story was the Canfield association somehow made the city close Anderson's before they went for the condo's off the end of the street. Think it had to do with getting a zoning change through. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 84
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 12:22 am: | |
"I remember Sign of the Beefcarver on 8 mile and Evergreen."
What exactly went down at Sign of the Beefcarver besides the serving of luke warm cheap buffet food? |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 179
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 1:57 am: | |
got to love warm (not hot) cheap buffet food |
Jman
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Username: Jman
Post Number: 19
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 8:36 am: | |
Hastings street in the 50's. |
Rjk
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Username: Rjk
Post Number: 607
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 8:48 am: | |
Didn't Leon Spinks get worked over at 6 Mile and Woodward many year ago?
I vaguely remember reading something about him waking up in a cheap motel with just about everything missing including his teeth and clothes. |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 376
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 9:07 am: | |
#1 it was a cafeteria not buffet
#2 their roast beef was and still is extremely tasteful
#3 it was and still is a good value |
Matt_the_deuce
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Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 699
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:18 am: | |
Leon Spinks - wasn't it outside the Last Chance Bar at 8 & Woodward? |
Queensfinest
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Username: Queensfinest
Post Number: 27
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:42 am: | |
There's a place called La Chambre (spelling might be wrong) on Telegraph Rd, Redford/Detroit border, where some acquaintances have noted that you can still get pretty much anything you might imagine, if you know what I mean... |
Thnk2mch
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Username: Thnk2mch
Post Number: 731
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:46 am: | |
Have you tried putting an ad in the personal classifieds? |
Professorscott
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Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 168
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:58 am: | |
La Chambre - weird place. I've never been in it but I'm aware of it; it's in a small, linear shopping center at the corner of I-96 and Telegraph.
I said "small, linear shopping center" because "strip mall" would be a horrible pun right about now. |
Jdkeepsmiling
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Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 184
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 12:47 pm: | |
you realize that by explaining you avoidance of "Strip Mall" you essentially negate any reason for avoiding its use in the first place? |
Professorscott
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Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 170
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 12:51 pm: | |
Timing, my boy, timing. Learned it at the William Shatner Acting School  |
Matt_the_deuce
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Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 700
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 2:15 pm: | |
Also on Telegraph just a bit North is the Chapeau Vert.
Don't know if it's operating but combined with La Chambre we should change the name of Telegraph to Le Boulevard Rochechouart. |
Ed_golick
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Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 535
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 5:42 pm: | |
"What exactly went down at Sign of the Beefcarver besides the serving of luke warm cheap buffet food?"
Ever hear of beef curtains? |
Emu_steve
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Username: Emu_steve
Post Number: 132
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 8:44 am: | |
lot of these threads bring back my days at Wayne.
I remember Anderson's Gardens. Barely remember the Willis Show Bar also.
I remember Dick Purtan on the radio having all kinds of fun with the Gardens.
I also remember the Detroit riots and a state policeman telling me to get the hell out of there. I can't remember where I was but it wasn't in Anderson's Gardens. ;-)
But I also remember the '68 World Series and what a good time that was. I lived "on campus" (in quotes - progress was tearing down the apt. building and making it a parking lot) and after the series winning game everyone flocked downtown and had a tremendously fun celebration.
Those days us youngees just kind of like let it hang out that night.
(Message edited by emu_steve on February 10, 2007) |
Michmeister
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Username: Michmeister
Post Number: 99
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 4:42 pm: | |
Wasn`t Hermans Gardens the big trouble spot for prostitution in the seventies? |