Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 210 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 6:27 pm: | |
Does anyone on the site know about the history of this shopping center. If so, could you please inform me on it? |
Harpernottingham Member Username: Harpernottingham
Post Number: 149 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 6:33 pm: | |
Yeah ... steer clear of it. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 211 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 6:41 pm: | |
Well I already know that, it's loiter central. |
Caldogven Member Username: Caldogven
Post Number: 21 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 7:28 pm: | |
In the early 50's it was just an overgrown empty lot. Every year a carnival would set up there for about a week. When they developed it the main store was Sam's, which later became Federal,s. |
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey
Post Number: 61 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:07 pm: | |
There's a Forman Mills there now. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 221 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:13 pm: | |
I know that too Maxcarey. Msybe I'm not being clear. I want to know the background of the shopping center, how the shopping environment has changed, and if you can, what retail tenants did they have. |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1095 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 10:06 pm: | |
Wasn't it home to one of the original Kmart Stores at one time? |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1126 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 11:58 pm: | |
The shopping center was developed on what was an empty field next to the Briggs manufacturing plant that Chrysler bought as part of their purchase of Briggs in December of 1953. in aerial photos from the 40's the field is empty. In a 1954 photo(the latest I have) the first store, a Kroger supermarket is in place and open and there are visible footings being poured for the sections of the center to the south of the Kroger. What is now the big and tall shop on the north end was built sometime later.
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Margarite Member Username: Margarite
Post Number: 53 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 11:01 am: | |
Husband and I and another couple spent many evenings at Francel's, a bar that was located in the shopping center. That would have been sometime during the early to mid 60's. |
Waxx Member Username: Waxx
Post Number: 88 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 1:09 am: | |
Growing up in the early 80s I remember going to Kroger on the Conner side of the mall, Kingsway on the Warren side of the mall, Kinney shoes, S.S. Kresge's in between as well as the original Francel's. There was a Firestone on the other side of that intersection-it's a miniature mall now-it looks good but being a longtime resident of the outskirts of that area, I very seldom shop there. It may look good, but it doesn't have the same flair that it once did in the 80s and before. So 'loiter central' as urbanize would call it, steer clear of it to quote harpernottingham. If you don't go there much, don't go now. You really ain't missin' much. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1132 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:38 am: | |
Warren and Conner, before anything was there
The shopping center sign, with the projects across the street
from WSU virtual Motor City |
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary
Post Number: 158 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:49 am: | |
I had a friend who worked at an A&P store that used to be there. He said he regularly found packages that had been opened, partially eaten, and then reclosed. I think I saw another post where they called that grazing. He also said that there were a few times when he found human poo in the aisles. |
Waxx Member Username: Waxx
Post Number: 90 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 10:48 am: | |
56Packman, I love the pix. Hey Ordinary, I forgot about the A&P that was on Mack and Conner. |
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 118 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:03 pm: | |
Here are a few shots as it looks today: http://farm1.static.flickr.com /171/428527254_e9fde0539d_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /168/428527269_78371aebdd_b.jp g http://farm1.static.flickr.com /147/428527240_8f4b217f74_b.jp g |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 272 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:07 pm: | |
Would of been nicer if they'd showed the other end of the Plaza and the new extension they made. |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1449 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:27 pm: | |
"Would of been nicer..." Would of? |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 273 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:44 pm: | |
Could of. Thank you for correcting me Fury13. |
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2144 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:52 pm: | |
I think fury was leaning towards: "would've" or "would have". |
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican
Post Number: 23 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:53 pm: | |
Federal's Department Store was there. Cupids Drive-In was on the other side of Conner at Warren. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 275 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:49 pm: | |
I do want to bleed in this thread a bit. What about 7 Days? I'm aware they burned down and moved to their location on H-W and Kelly. Anyway, I remember that retro sign they had before they changed sometime around '01 or '02. Anyone have thh history behind it? |
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421
Post Number: 56 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 6:53 pm: | |
It is the first strip mall, that was born in the U.S. |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1461 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:31 am: | |
I think fury was leaning towards: "would've" or "would have". Exactamundo. Would've, would have, could've, could have. You're trying to creating a past-tense contraction there (or maybe you're just trying to be irritating by employing incorrect usage). It's NEVER "would of" or "could of" (unless you delight in sounding uneducated or "street"). Yeah, it sounds like "would of" (or "could of") when you verbalize it, but it's incorrect to write it that way. It's a pet peeve of mine, I guess. Now, I'm sure that more folks will start doing it... just to piss me off. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 307 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:42 am: | |
"Now, I'm sure that more folks will start doing it... just to piss me off." You're right Fury. Not trying to be rude, but this is a public discussion site where that no one really pays attention to in terms of "head officials" on the internet, not the deemer of your life. Also, it's not proper English to say "folks either. That is an improper country word for people, you know, like that word we call "aint'" |
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 273 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:08 pm: | |
We folks ain't sure you two would of hijacked this thread with you're discussion on English. |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1463 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:28 pm: | |
Like I said, Urbanize: "...unless you delight in sounding uneducated or 'street.'" "Folks" is perfectly proper. "Peeps" isn't. Look it up. There is no correlation between "folks" and "ain't." It amazes me how many people ("people," not "ppl") think good spelling and halfway decent grammar are no longer important. That attitude is probably ("probably," not "prolly") a by-product of the casual writing style so prevalent on the Internet. There are misspelled signs in public view everywhere too; you never would have ("would have," not "would of") seen that 15 or 20 years ago. We're becoming a nation of dummies. |
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield
Post Number: 631 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:56 pm: | |
Wha' happen to the thread? Skip it momentarily. Ok...Ok... we're talking Warren & Conner. A few miles away was Manz Field. Dimensions larger than Tiger Stadium. Under the lights. Any memories? I played ball there. |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1468 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 4:02 pm: | |
OK... hey, I remember the Big Bear supermarket on Warren near Conner. I had relatives on Gray St., just south of Warren. I recall the Warren-Conner shopping center as very popular in the early to mid '60s. It drew people from far beyond that immediate neighborhood. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 310 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 8:30 pm: | |
I'm sure Grosse Pointers and Morningsiders made a trip there too. |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 644 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 12:11 pm: | |
bump |