The Clipping. - 2004-11-12 22:55:36
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this is hysterical, Laura. * * * * * * * * * * * * leighton - 2004-11-13 16:06:26
"So ended a perfect day" There's some spin. What happened to the historic pics (one of a plane a Rec. Park) in Farmer Jack's 'lobby'? Also, have you come across the existance of an air field in Ypsi - off of Carpenter just north of Michigan Ave.? It's still a farmer's field next to the Beer distributer. * * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-11-13 18:21:43
We went to Target today with a couple of our cute young (compared to us) boyfriends after breakfast at the Wolverine. One of them commented on the nice old building across the road, next to the lane going back to the concrete place. I told them about my vague memory of an airfield there and that the building may have been a maintenance structure. I hallucinate whenever I have the opportunity, so that may not be true. Yet there was an airfield somewhere on Carpenter. I wonder who can tell us the truth?
Recreation Park even had a horse racing track in olden days. Coincidentally, we yakked at the Modern Art Do at the DIA with a guy who grew up around the park in the 60s long after the subdividians took over (now established yuppie community) and who attended school at Roosevelt on EMU's campus.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-11-13 19:07:18
Addiann: I'm glad you found it funny; I did, too--the substitution of the bag of straw for the sake of the rapt crowd anxiously awaiting the spectacle in particular makes me smile.
Leighton: yes, isn't that funny? A perfect day--oh, except for that smoldering crumpled expensive airplane wreck over there. Other than that, perfect. Leighton, that is very interesting info about the old airfield, I am looking on 2 of my maps here and I don't see one. But I'll be out tomorrow so maybe we can swing by there and see if it's still visible; thank you for the tip.I'm not sure about the historical photos from FJ, since I'm a Kroger girl.
Raymond: That is good info--it sounds like this was the same one Leighton was talking about; do you think so? I'll have to try and find out tomorrow. And I have yet to try out the Wolverine--people say it's good, so it's on my list. I've been too much of a weekend slugabed to get out and have breakfast out, but I have to get motivated. Last, Raymond, was Roosevelt a...high school on the EMU campus?* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-11-14 18:44:04
I thought Roosevelt was only high school. We have a portrait of M. Gahndi by a student who attended there. Brian tells me it was all grades, though. The Normal College functioned as a lab school for many years. UofM had University High where the Scool of Ed now sits. Was the UofM building now (but not for long) know as Frieze the Ann Arbor High School?* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: