Colleen27
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Wow, I don't know how it took me so long to find this thread! So many memories...
I grew up in St Clair Shores, and my family is Hamtramck/Poletown Polish so I spent a lot of time in the city as a kid. I remember during the Devils Night years many of my friends weren't allowed to go into the city at all, even for Tigers and Wings games, and I was spending most of my weekends there! My grandfather had Tiger season tickets, so I easily went to 30 games a season from the time I was very small, and even got to see one game of the 84 Series.
I miss the old stadium.
Now we live in southern St Clair county, so I don't spend as much time in the city as I used to.
Boblo - Did anyone see that they're restoring one of the boats? It was open as a haunted house last fall to raise money for the restoration, but we didn't make it down. I was hoping they'd do the same this year, but I haven't heard anything about it.
The captain of one of the Boblo boats was somehow related to my grandfather, and one of my favorite childhood memories is getting to see the controls and everything on one of our trips to the island.
The ruins of Detroit website - When I was in college, I e-mailed back and forth with the person who set up that site, which was then running on an Oakland U server. I went to U of Detroit Mercy myself, and that's when I really got into photography as a hobby. Michigan Central Station was the first place I ever shot with my first SLR. No place other than Disney has ever been quite as inspiring to me as Detroit, and I still make the trek once or twice a year to explore a bit with my camera.
Hudsons - one of my best friends was living downtown when it was demolished, and we went down to see it. And late that night, after the dust had settled and we'd spent a bit of time at a club I used to hang out at, we snuck through a hole in the fence around the property to take a brick as a souvenir. My mom's first job was at that store, and she loved getting that brick in her stocking at Christmas.
I grew up in St Clair Shores, and my family is Hamtramck/Poletown Polish so I spent a lot of time in the city as a kid. I remember during the Devils Night years many of my friends weren't allowed to go into the city at all, even for Tigers and Wings games, and I was spending most of my weekends there! My grandfather had Tiger season tickets, so I easily went to 30 games a season from the time I was very small, and even got to see one game of the 84 Series.
I miss the old stadium.
Now we live in southern St Clair county, so I don't spend as much time in the city as I used to.
Boblo - Did anyone see that they're restoring one of the boats? It was open as a haunted house last fall to raise money for the restoration, but we didn't make it down. I was hoping they'd do the same this year, but I haven't heard anything about it.
The captain of one of the Boblo boats was somehow related to my grandfather, and one of my favorite childhood memories is getting to see the controls and everything on one of our trips to the island.
The ruins of Detroit website - When I was in college, I e-mailed back and forth with the person who set up that site, which was then running on an Oakland U server. I went to U of Detroit Mercy myself, and that's when I really got into photography as a hobby. Michigan Central Station was the first place I ever shot with my first SLR. No place other than Disney has ever been quite as inspiring to me as Detroit, and I still make the trek once or twice a year to explore a bit with my camera.
Hudsons - one of my best friends was living downtown when it was demolished, and we went down to see it. And late that night, after the dust had settled and we'd spent a bit of time at a club I used to hang out at, we snuck through a hole in the fence around the property to take a brick as a souvenir. My mom's first job was at that store, and she loved getting that brick in her stocking at Christmas.
