downriver

Rockeytown

2006-03-01T15:11:00.001-08:00

Back in the late 90's the Redwings where at the top of their game and everyone was going "cup crazy".This store decided to name their store "Hockeytown party shoppe". The only problem was "hockeytown" was copyrighted, so the store then painted over the H and put a R to make it "Rockeytown".

The food court at the Southland mall

2006-02-24T14:51:00.000-08:00

Great lakes Steel (Ecorse)

2005-12-10T19:36:00.000-08:00

Hungarian Kichen/ Haunted house

2005-11-21T19:59:00.000-08:00

This is what used to be the hungarian kitchen, and now it used to be a haunted house. So, i felt like i should take some pictures of the place.

Some of the pictures are pretty blurry but you still get the idea.

Drag racing and transexuals

2005-11-16T22:00:00.000-08:00

A transexual store and hot rod shop in the same building. How about that.

Meet me at the DRC

2005-11-15T21:23:00.000-08:00

Using his own body as a canoe.

How about that, a light tower.

Melvindale

2005-11-11T22:33:00.000-08:00

New do, same attitude.

2005-11-06T09:59:00.000-08:00

Newton,Sinbad,Chippendales

2005-11-04T09:06:00.000-08:00

Trenton

2005-11-02T19:44:00.000-08:00

Rockwood

2005-10-30T22:29:00.000-08:00

Deer in Riverview

2005-10-29T21:41:00.000-07:00

There where roughly ten deer just hanging out and heres a few of them

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This is across the street from the Arkema (Atofina) factory in Riverview.

Please help us Mayor Brown

2005-10-25T23:26:00.000-07:00

Wyandotte secedes

2005-10-24T22:11:00.000-07:00

They have their own electricity,cable,water and now they have their own flag.

Trenton Riverside Hospital

2005-10-23T15:07:00.000-07:00

This is the abandoned riverside hospital that closed down roughly 5 years ago. The only historical information i could find on the place happens to be from a ghosthunting website. So, I apologize if the information isnt accurate (especially the ghostsightings) but its all i could find,without actually doing any real research.

"A family called the Church family built the old hospital in the 1800s. It was their house until they died and their other family members didn't want anything to do with the house, so Henry Ford bought the old house and turned it into a hospital in 1944. The kids included in the family were two boys and a 9-year-old girl. The 9-year old girl loved horses so they had five horses. So, in that case, there are horse stables in the back. The little girl loved her horse and rode it everyday. Until one day, the little girl fell off the horse and broke her arm. The dad got mad and thought it was the horse's fault that his little girl broke her arm. So while she was at school one day, her dad killed the horse for hurting his little girl. The dad and his friend buried the horse on the side of their house. If you go to the side of the house where the dad and his friend buried the horse, there will be a little hill where the horse is. When the little girl came home and found out what her dad did, everyday from then on, she would come home from school, lock hers in her room, put her rocking chair in front of her window and she would sing to herself. Well, when the family died and Henry Ford bought the house, that was then the hospital, there was an old man that was in the hospital and his hospital room was what used to be the little girl's bedroom. While he was lying there in his bed, he heard singing, then he heard footsteps. When he got out of the hospital, he had someone set up thermal cameras in the room he was in and sure enough, they saw a figure in front of the window. After Henry Ford bought the hospital, six doctors wanted to build a bigger one and that's how the newer Riverside Hospital came about. They ended up closing down the old hospital 5 years ago because they found black mold growing in the building, which can kill you. They closed down the newer hospital one year ago because it was too much to keep up. Also, the Henry Ford company wanted to move everything to Wyandotte so Riverside lost business. There is a stack by the hospital. In a little tunnel thing outside of the new hospital, there is a furnace type thing. That's where they burned the amputated body parts of people. Also in that little tunnel, is the old morgue. THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL SEEN IN THE WINDOW THAT WAS MENTIONED ABOVE. SHE WAS WEARING A WHITE DRESS WITH BROWN CURLY HAIR AND BOWS IN HER HAIR. BLINDS HAVE BEEN SEEN GOING UP AND DOWN. SCREAMS WERE HEARD"

I'll try and take more indepth photos of these supposedly haunted areas next time. I hadn't read or know about this previously.

A nice day in Riverview

2005-10-22T16:50:00.000-07:00

Downriver

2005-10-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

This is a direct copy and paste from Wikipedia.

This is downriver:

"Downriver" is the unofficial name for suburbs of Detroit, Michigan that are located to the south of the city – "down the (Detroit) River." The name derives from the fact that the Detroit River, after running nearly east-west along the banks of Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, then bends to flow largely most north-south before emptying into Lake Erie. Communities to the south of the city can thus be accessed by traveling "down" (south) along the waterway.

The Downriver area is known for its large number of people of Southern origin; indeed, traces of the Southern accent are preserved by many residents. Many work in blue-collar industries, particularly for Ford Motor Company, which has a large industrial complex in nearby Dearborn and numerous other area plants. Downriver communities include:

* Allen Park
* Brownstown
* Ecorse
* Flat Rock
* Gibraltar
* Grosse Ile
* Lincoln Park
* Melvindale
* River Rouge
* Riverview
* Southgate
* Taylor
* Trenton
* Woodhaven
* Wyandotte