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DO YOU REMEMBER ....

 ..... taking a "moonlight cruise" to Bob-Lo
with Captain Bob-Lo or going to
Edgewater Amusement Park .

........shopping at Hughes and Hatcher, B Siegel, Peck and Peck, Himelhoch's, Robert Hall, Crowley 's, Shoppers Fair, EJ Korvettes or Federals.
.......seeing the trolley cars that went along Jefferson Avenue into Detroit .

...... going to the the Detroit Train Station.

..............shopping at J. L. Hudson's
and riding the elevators there,
which were "run" by an elevator operator.

......seeing the world's largest flag that
flew on the side of Hudson 's in downtown Detroit .

..... going to a Winkleman's and
Sanders store in your neighborhood.

.........watching the "Big Snow",
Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Clarabelle,
Phineas T.Bluster,
Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring.

....when Twin Pines Dairy
delivered milk and juice to the chute
on the side of houses and
Milky the Clown performed magic
with the magic words "Twin Pines."

........hearing the Good Humor man
in a white uniform, ringing the bells
as he drove down your street

....going to Olympia Stadium.

....... where Vernors was made on Woodward Ave. ,
and a bearded troll was on the bottle.

.....your Mom getting groceries at Great Scott, Food Fair, Wrigley's or Chatham .
....... that the Giant Uniroyal Tire that was on
the Ford Freeway had been a ferris wheel
ride at the 1964 World's Fair.

....your Mom saved Holden Red Stamps,
S&H Green stamps, or Gold Bell Gift stamps, and you licked them into those little books.
Kresge's and Woolworth's were "Dime Stores."

....you had an uncle in the furniture business
(Joshua Door).
..........you know who Bill Kennedy is.

....seeing the Detroit Lions play football
in Tiger Stadium.

...hearing Black Bart and the Faygo song. Or how about "Which way did he go?
He went for Faygo, old fashion root beer."

...watching Rita Bell's!
prize movies in the morning.

....watching Jack LeGoff,
Van Patrick and George Peirrot.

...watching Milky the Clown,
Soupy Sales, Johnny Ginger, Poopdeck Paul, Captain Jolly, Sagebrush Shorty
and maybe even Sergeant Satko Salute.

....visiting the Wonder Bread Bakery
and taking home a mini loaf of bread.

.....having addresses with a two-digit "zone"
before there were zip codes. Detroit 19, Michigan.
.....visiting the incredible Christmas display shown each
year at the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn .

...hearing "Get on the right track at 9 mile and Mack,
to get the best deal in town. Roy O'Brien...
it's the best deal in town."
...having a laundry chute and a milk chute
and a coal chute.
....... going to Detroit Edison with your Mom to
exchange burned out light bulbs for new ones.