Odds and Ends

[RGrew176]

 

[southkogs]

I lived in S/E Michigan south of Detroit in what we call the Downriver Area as it is downriver on the Detroit River from Detroit. We would cruise that area. From the Riverview McDonalds up to the Southgate McDonalds then up to the Lincoln Park Big Boy. Those were fun times. Gas was .25 cents a gallon and we could cruise just about all week on $5 worth of gas.

Didn't cruise that much ... 'course I only had an Escort, so it wasn't all that cool lookin' against the other stuff. But the cruising I did do was on Telegraph a little north of you. We'd run Plymouth Road out in Plymouth at times ... but that was 'cuz Daily's out there had good ice cream Telegraph was our main run, as far North as Southfield depending on who we thought was out.

After 696 was put in, a buddy of mine and I used to race guys out there in a Chevy Baretta he put together. Amazed we never got pulled over for those runs.

 

[RGrew176]

We used to race on Northline Road just west of Middlebelt by the airport. That went on for a few years until the Wayne County Sheriffs Department raided the place one night and shut it down. I was there that night and ran across an open field to get away. Many were not so lucky and were caught. There were so many cars there they couldn't catch all of us.

 

[RGrew176]

 

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[Bayou Dave]

And I am so old I remember asking the operator to ring a number for me. There was no rotary on the phone at all.

 

[bassman284]

And I am so old I remember asking the operator to ring a number for me. There was no rotary on the phone at all.

Been there, done that. Interestingly, our small town phone company (Tiffin, IA) was one of the first in the country to have push button phones in about 1956. Eight track tapes hadn't been invented yet.

 

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[dwco5051]

Been there, done that. Interestingly, our small town phone company (Tiffin, IA) was one of the first in the country to have push button phones in about 1956. Eight track tapes hadn't been invented yet.

It was in 1957 the local phone company where I lived whent from "number please" to rotary dialing. I was in my first year away at college and when I came home at Thanksgiving I found it was easier back when you just had to ask the operator for Joes Garage or the IGA than have to look up the number. Direct dial long distance too except you had to dial 11 before the number rather than just 1 like today.

 

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[bassman284]

Real question is, who hasn't?

 

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[Bayou Dave]

In a heart beat!