What do you Miss Most about where You used to Live?

[Falcon]

There's only one thing I miss about Detroit - the ethnic festivals during the summer. "Ethnic" in Detroit is the real thing; there are so many different pockets of foreign inhabitants there, so you got the "real" food, crafts, music, dance, etc. Here in the Orlando area, except for Cuban, Vietnamese, and perhaps Haitian, any other "ethnic festivals" are the Disney-Kids-of-the-Kingdom-ish affairs. You know....."The Grinning Americans" (a little nod to "Cheers" here) on stage pretending to be furriners.

Remember Hamtramack (sp?)_ A Large Polish area.....next to Highland Park. I miss the Vernors ginger ale place down
Woodward Ave. at the waterfront (Detroit River)....looking across to Canada (south). The only place where Canada is south of the USA>

 

[Underock1]

I grew up, and lived in the Bronx. That was a long time ago. As a boy, I lived at my local library. A great selection of books. Later, I haunted the NY Public Library in Manhattan. I really miss the Museums. Natural History, Art, the Planetarium. Growing up, I was within walking distance of the Botanical Gardens, and the Bronx Zoo. After moving to the hills of NJ, we only went into the city a few times.The drive in and parking was way too traumatic, and is now quite expensive. I couldn't do it now under any circumstances. I will always be grateful for what NY added to my life.

 

[Linda]

What made you move to California Linda?..please don't answer if it's too personal..

Hollydolly, My husband got a bad case of tendinitis in his arm (not good for a carpenter) and so we went running around one summer since he didn't have to work. That was in the late 70s. We came to California and I remember stopping at Modesto and seeing some apricot trees or something growing and thinking how beautiful it all was. The same time we went up to Yosemite. I asked him "Why did you never tell me California was so beautiful?" So then about a year later we moved to California. In a way I regret it but since most of our kids and grand kids are here I wouldn't want to move away. I love the climate here but I'm getting sick of this drought. I love the people (well, most of them) in California and I like how open minded most of them are.

 

[jujube]

Remember Hamtramack (sp?)_ A Large Polish area.....next to Highland Park. I miss the Vernors ginger ale place down
Woodward Ave. at the waterfront (Detroit River)....looking across to Canada (south). The only place where Canada is south of the USA>

We used to go to Hamtramck (correct spelling, but weird) to a big Polish restaurant whose specialty was chicken noodle soup; with the soup you got two huge chicken feet floating on the top. Once I flirted with the waiter and got THREE. My Polish friend called me a hussy. We would also go on Saturdays to get delicious Polish bakery goods; you'd seldom hear English being spoken. Ahhh, Vernors. The first year we were there, we lived right around the corner from the plant. My toddler loved to sit in her stroller and watch the bottles going by on the conveyor belt.

I worked downtown for the first couple of years and we'd have lunch at the American Coney Island or the Lafayette Coney Island. If you remember the old Saturday Night Live CHEEBURGHA-CHEEBURGHA routine, you'll know exactly how things were. I know they say that was based on some where in Chicago, but I'll go to the grave swearing it was inspired by the Coney Island places on Lafayette. Lots of yelling and it definitely wasn't Burger King....you got the hot dogs THEIR way or you didn't get them at all, $#*@&@!.

 

[Ameriscot]

We used to go to Hamtramck (correct spelling, but weird) to a big Polish restaurant whose specialty was chicken noodle soup; with the soup you got two huge chicken feet floating on the top. Once I flirted with the waiter and got THREE. My Polish friend called me a hussy. We would also go on Saturdays to get delicious Polish bakery goods; you'd seldom hear English being spoken. Ahhh, Vernors. The first year we were there, we lived right around the corner from the plant. My toddler loved to sit in her stroller and watch the bottles going by on the conveyor belt.

I worked downtown for the first couple of years and we'd have lunch at the American Coney Island or the Lafayette Coney Island. If you remember the old Saturday Night Live CHEEBURGHA-CHEEBURGHA routine, you'll know exactly how things were. I know they say that was based on some where in Chicago, but I'll go to the grave swearing it was inspired by the Coney Island places on Lafayette. Lots of yelling and it definitely wasn't Burger King....you got the hot dogs THEIR way or you didn't get them at all, $#*@&@!.

Love Vernor's. Always went to grandma's house on Sundays and she had a fridge in the basement filled with Stroh's and Vernor's. I've been to that Coney Island on Lafayette. My parents grew up in Detroit but moved away after marriage. I lived in Detroit during the 80's. Worked at the Freep.

 

[jujube]

Love Vernor's. Always went to grandma's house on Sundays and she had a fridge in the basement filled with Stroh's and Vernor's. I've been to that Coney Island on Lafayette. My parents grew up in Detroit but moved away after marriage. I lived in Detroit during the 80's. Worked at the Freep.

Free Press, really? I spent six years at the News in the 70's. I would have never have believed back then that they would merge.

 

[Ameriscot]

Free Press, really? I spent six years at the News in the 70's. I would have never have believed back then that they would merge.

Customer Service for 18 months - 88 to 90. The JOA happened while I was there. So the peeps from the News came over to our office, sitting next to us yet still making $5/hour more than me.

 

[jujube]

Yeah, we got a huge across-the-board raise in, I think, '75 or '76 that supposedly brought us up to New York City levels. I suspect it was to fight off the Guild again. That was the only reason I lasted for six years.....it certainly wasn't for the working conditions or the warm and fuzzy bosses - ha. I just couldn't afford to quit. I was in advertising sales.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Gales Ales and my 'local' The 'Ship & Bell' in Horndean, Hampshire. The pub was named apparently because it was a stopping off point for ships' chandlers going to and from Portsmouth and the south coast.

Believe it or not, this used to be the main road from London to Portsmouth. About where the photo was taken from, the road split - one way to Portsmouth and the other to Havant and the coast. On weekends in the summer, there used to be a policeman directing traffic outside the brewery because the road was so busy. Now it is bypassed by the A3(M).