You Know You're From Detroit If... Visitor Comments

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Jo Adams Highland MI

Northern 1942

Comments: Very nostalgic.

Robert W Anderson Petoskey MI

Cousino 1965

Comments: Your site was very interesting, and brought back a lot

of memories of when Detroit was a better place.

Gary Antieau Lighthouse Point FL

Garden City 1959

Comments: Very pleased to see you have taken the time to develop and interesting retrospect on our home city.

Bob Appelle Washington Twp MI

Finney 1967

Comments: Cruising Chandler Park Dr, hanging out at Daley's on Harper near Cadieux, cruising Lakeshore Dr., going to Detroit and Motor City Dragway on Sunnnnnnnday. Model car contests at Lopos and Vaughns hobby shops. Earls bike shop on Harper and Whittier. Slot racing at VJ's accross from the Harper show. The Civic, Vouge and Alger shows. Blazos at Mack & Morross. Alinosis ice cream on Warren and Outer Dr, Harper and Wayburn, 6 mile and Waltham. Oliver's Night Club on Harper near Whittier, the Red Carpet on East Warren, East Warren and Maple Lanes and Parkside bowling alleys. Chandler Park. 31 years with Ma Bell (aka Michigan Bell aka Ameritech aka SBC). Thanks. Great site.

Cyma & Jerry Aronow Los Angeles CA

Central 1951

Comments: It was fun to reminisce, although we moved away in 1954!

Did you mention Sanders hot fudge?

I can still taste it.

Jeff Asselin Las Vegas NV

Harper Woods 1970

Comments: Great stuff, brings back sooooo many memories, thanks so much for your effort.

Vince Asta Canton MI

St. David 1968

Comments: Great memories from a much more simple and innocent time! What I will always remember are the new car introductions in September. The night sky would be lit up with beams of light from WWW-II type search lights that were on the new car dealerships to attract potential buyers to come on down and view the "NEW" cars of the 1950s! When you got to the new car dealerships, the windows of the showrooms would be covered with paper/advertisments/banners to announce what was new!

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Watching Johnny Slagle and his partner, a tall blonde whose name escapes me, after school. They had an aquarium and watching the fish was part of the show! I think they were at WXYZ. Also I remember the name

Todd Purse. I know he was at WXYZ. Don't remember if he was a news anchor or what, but he was very cute.

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One of the shows I remember watching was "Auntie Dee."

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Harry Heilman broadcast the Detroit Tigers games and Tom Clay was the hot new DJ at night and Joe Van and Toby David spun the records in the morning.

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Nancy M. Baggott Warrenton VA

Franklin HS

Comments: What a great walk down memory lane. Thank you for the laughs.

Pat Bailey St.Clair Shores, MI

Lakeshore 1971

Comments: Plum Street (the Haight Ashbury of Detroit) near Michigan Ave. Lots of shops, singing on the streets. A very innocent time (until the riots of '67 sent the National Guard there).

Bob Bandyk Henderson NV

Dearborn 1961

Comments: Great website.

Anita Bickel Baldwin Charleston SC

Henry Ford 1962

Comments: Sure brought back a lot of memories.

Eric "Soyboy" Bartell Traverse City MI

Harper Woods 1970

Comments: I remember going to Eastown Theatre when it was a 25 cent Saturday show with two movies and two cartoons... then to the Eastown when it housed music like Alice Cooper, The Doors, Bob Seger etc..

Sheila Beaubien Wyandotte MI

Trenton 1960

Comments: Wonderful to see that there are other people out there who are as nostalgic about "Old Detroit" as I am.

Kathy Bembas Rochester Hills MI

Dominican 1965

Comments: This is awesome! Only trouble is, I remember almost everything!! Does that mean I am getting old? And I grew up near a Trombly...northeast side?

Art Bejma Sterling Heights MI

Pershing 1957

Comments: Thanks for this !!! :-)

Love this Site! Sure remember having "Lunch with Soupy & White Fang" :-) Grew up in the Hamtramck Projects,

on Dequindre & Carpenter. Big thing was "cruising" Dixie's on Dequindre &

8 Mile. Then drag racing on Woodward Ave. all the way to Ted's Drive Inn, then back to 8 Mile again! Sunday rides to Kent Lake (renamed Kensington Metro Park). Trips to Ann Arbor by train to watch Michigan football with Mr. Potchynok and the other kids from the Hamtramck Projects ! :-) Loved Hamtramck life, sure do remember a little Polish Lady with a pail of hot soapy water, scrubbing the sidewalk in front of her house! Those days are long gone! :-( Do you have anything else on Hamtramck?

Eileen: Since I print what's sent to me, how about it, readers, any memories of Hamtramck life?

Kathleen Beurer Allen Park MI

Fordson 1977

Comments: Boy, this site sure took me down memory lane :) I miss Winkleman's! I miss watching the Wings play at Olympia. My favorite memory was taking the bus from Dearborn to Hudson's downtown almost every Saturday with my Mom. That store was the best!

Marge Speck Blankenship

Anchorage AK

Redford 1961

Comments: I was looking [on the internet] for George Pierrot's World Adventure Series. Mom and I use to go to watch it at the Detroit Institue of Arts and then rush home to see it repeated on TV. Thanks for the memories.

Joseph B. Blinstrub Cheboygan MI

Comments: I have delightful memories of all these places: Northland Inn, Adrian Cotter's restaurant, Sheenies, horse water fountains, Jam Handy, Detroit streetcar rides: children 6 cents, through the early 1950s.

Joyce Williams Bokor Seminole FL

Redford 1954

Comments: My sister Maureen (a Californian) are going to love this site --

we are planning to go back together soon. I haven't been there since 1970 -- lots of changes I expect. Thanks for the site.

Helen Bommarito Macomb Twp. MI

Servite 1968

Comments: Brings back a lot of memories.

Florence L. Bounds St. Louis MO

Southeastern 1968

Comments: I love this website. It really brought back some very good memories. How about rolling skating at Fairview Garden?

J. Craig Bowlby Little Rock AR

Plymouth HS

Comments: Great site! Brings back lots of memories. How about Walled Lake Casino were I first saw Stevie Wonder when he was about 10 yrs. old along with Walled Lake Amusement Park? There are so many things that are gone forever, my hat is off to you for your web site and all the information you have put together. At Christmas, the 56+ windows decorated at J. L. Hudson were always the start of the Christmas season! Keep up the good work

Marion Brecht Berrkley MI

Dondero HS

Comments: I worked at a Kresge's. This is so great!

Robert Brent Troy MI

Cathedral Central 1959

Comments: Great Great!!! I Have a dream. Let's find a way to make Detroit great again. We can be a great city with pride. We can do it...together.

Marge Bresinski Warren MI

Denby

Comments: Love it - brought back many memories!!

Vernetta Brown Detroit MI

Northeastern 1968

Comments: Better days, better neighborhoods, sweet people, less violence, just to name a few. This is my first time at your site, so I have to take the tour. I'm sure I will love it. God bless.

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Claudia C. Indiana

South Lyon 1974

Comments: When I was a senior in high school, I borrowed my sister's white Rambler. My girlfriend and I skipped school (the one and only time

I ever skipped) and drove to Detroit.

We ended up in front of Edgewater Park and took pictures of the sign and each other in the car. Thanks for your website. It really brought back a lot of fond memories growing up in Garden City and then in South Lyon.

Francesca Cangialosi Albuquerque NM

Osborn 1968

Comments: Love it...especially useful since I'm going back in a few weeks for a vist. Really wonderful memories but none of CKLW and Dave Shafer, Tommy Shannon, and Terry Knight...

oh, and don't forget Tom Clay...I still have his interview with the Beatles on 45 RPM.

Nancy A. Carlisle Detroit MI

Pershing 1967

Comments: Ice skating at Farwell Field, going to Belomont Shopping Center, Top Hat, Light Guard Armory, sock hops at St. Bartholomew Grade School.

Your website is awesome. My older sister went to Regina High also.

Ricard J. Carr Southfield MI

Visitation 1965

Comments: Great place to share reminiscences with other Detroiters.

Randolph W. Chance Canton MI

Redford 1967

Comments: Enjoyed it! Think Dick Purtan and Robin Seymour were with WKNR when I was in high school.

Darlene Chiappetta Warren MI

Stevenson 1978

Comments:I remember much of the above plus when CKLW was "The Big 8" and you could hear it well into Ohio and all the way "up north." (Does anybody else remember the CKLW DJ that called himself "Super Max" that also happened to be the brand name of a popular hair dryer at the time?) Listening to Keener 13 radio in the car during the summer and hearing it coming from the other cars on the road too. Sonny and Cher performing at the State Fair. When FM radio was new and The RIF (WRIF) and the Q (WDRQ) became the stations to listen to. The Faygo commercial with all the people on the Boblo boat singing "...Faygo...

Remember." HARPO's: THE Disco to be seen at (formerly the Harper Theater), the Winkelman's Rummage Room, and when John Kelly, Bill Bonds, Jerry Hodak and Marilyn Turner were all on the same newscast.

Chris Chomos Las Vegas NV

Lincoln Park 1965

Comments: Boy, this bought back so many memories! Just loved all the t.v. stuff. I remember all those guys. My favorite was lunch with Soupy. Everyday I'd run home for lunch, and had to eat the same stuff Soupy did. Thanks for bringing it all back

Matthew Chornoby Sterling Heights MI

East Detroit 1974

Comments: Brings back some great memories, unfortunately I remember most of the stuff.

Jill B. Clark Lynnville KY

Redford 1970

Comments: Just getting started but already realizing how much I have forgotten over the past 30 years. I really appreciate all the time you are taking to put this together. "Thanks for the Memories"!

Lori Clarke-Grammatico Clinton Twp MI

Denby 1975

Comments: I think this is great to relive some of the great old memories that you just cannot convey to someone who was not as fortunate as we were! One of my favorite memories is going to Belle Isle and going on a horse and buggy ride with my mom and dad!

Barbara Clouse Warren MI

Pershing 1961

Comments: Awesome!

Charles E. Cogo Canton OH

Cathedral 1967

Comments: A real blast from the past.

I remember it all! Great memories to be cherished always.

Don Combs Sterling Heights MI

Wilbur Wright 1954

Comments: Shopping at Silverstien's (war surplus) on 6 mile.

Jim Conley San Diego CA

Sougthgate HS 1972

Comments: I just came upon it [website] and had not thought about some of those symbols for 40 years! Thanks for the memories! Remember red pop, those really small Sanders birthday cakes that served maybe three people, and "At The Zoo with Sonny Elliott" on TV?

Don Cordill Anaheim CA

Melvindale 1950

Comments: Enjoyed it .

Elaine Cocozzoli Troy MI

St. Francis de Sales 1965

Comments: Ahhhh, Baker's Shoes and shopping at Grand River & Greenfield almost every weekend. Trowbridge Road was a great place to go. Did anyone belong to Junior Achievment? This is really fun. We're all enjoying it. My son sent it to me. Thanks.

Jim Conley San Diego CA

Sougthgate 1972

Comments: I just came upon it and had not thought about some of those symbols for 40 years! Thanks for the memories! Remember : RED POP, those really small Sanders birthday cakes that served maybe three people, and "At The Zoo with Sonny Elliott"?

Thomas M. Cooper Mt. Dora FL

Kimball 1968

Comments: Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a wonderful trip down memory lane. I remember them all.

I laughed and cried at the same time as I remembered the different chapters of my life in Detroit.

Marilyn Couture Taylor MI

Dominican 1963

Comments: It sure brings back the good ole days.

Richard & Nancy Crosby Ann Arbor MI

Ann Arbor 1951 & 1953

Comments: It's wonderful! Richard lived in Rosedale Park first 4 years of his life.

Ted Cuda Livonia MI

Fordson 1968

Comments: Great website. I enjoyed looking at it.