Re: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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Re: IML: Grosse Pointe, Michigan



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.


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,

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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