Re: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan

[John Corey <jcorey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh well, shows how easily we Easterners can get confused by that rational Midwest road system.  We're more used to the traditional cowpath layouts ;).  jc

On Jul 1, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Tom Hubbard wrote:

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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