Re: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan

[Tom Hubbard <tom_hubbard1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, actually the Grosse Pointes are mostly south of
Eight Mile Rd.  And yes the "mile roads" have always
been helpful in navigating around the sprawling Metro
Detroit area.  Besides the numbered mile they also
have "real" names, e.g. Six Mile is also McNichols.

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result.php?q1=Grosse+Pointe+MI

Wish I had been to Eyes on Design, though.  Thanks for
posting earlier about that show and the show at
Greenfield Village.  Those are always awesome events.

> As it happens I was just there last week, with my
> soft-top 61,  
> invited to the Eyes on Design show, on the grounds
> of the Edsel Ford  
> Estate.  It is a nice suburb of Detroit, though much
> nearer-in than  
> in those days!  It is located between about 8-mile
> and 12 mile roads  
> (the standard for east-west route naming there,
> referenced to  
> downtown Detroit).
> 
> jc
> 
> On Jun 25, 2007, at 12:16 PM,
> <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> >
> > Recently I was looking through a book titled
> Imperial Photo Album  
> > 1964-1968, or something like that, and I became
> curious as to where  
> > the pictures were shot.
> >
> > For those of you who haven't seen this book, it
> has a lot of black  
> > & white photos of Imperials from 1964 to 1968. 
> Some of these are  
> > obviously studio shots, but a large number show
> Imperials driving  
> > around suburban neighborhoods or parked at gas
> stations (one with  
> > an A&P in the background).  The shots look very
> real and unstaged,  
> > for the most part.
> >
> > Anyway, after careful scrutiny of some road signs
> in a corner of  
> > one of the pictures and with the help of Mapquest
> I was able to  
> > discover that most of these shots were taken in
> the neighborhood of  
> > Grosse Pointe, Michigan, which is a suburb of
> Detroit.
> >
> > Well, big deal you say.  Yeah, it is kind of
> trivial but it looks  
> > to me as if the photo crew just grabbed a car and
> drove down the  
> > street to take these pictures.  I don't think this
> neighborhood is  
> > that far away from the Imperial plant in Detroit.
> >
> > Anybody familiar with Grosse Pointe?  I wonder how
> it's changed  
> > since these photos were taken.
> >
> > Mark M
> >
> >
> >
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> John Corey
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