You're an Old Detroiter if You Remember...    
  
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43 signs that you might be from Michigan, fromMeg (Sanders) Belcher:
01) You've never met any celebrites.
02) "Vacation" means going to Cedar Point
03) At least (1) member of your family disowns you the week of Michigan State game.
04) Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.
05) Your idea of a 7-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt.
06) You drive 86 MPH on the highway and pass on the right.
07) Your idea of a traffic jam is 20 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
08) You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.
09) You know the "Big Mac" is something that your drive over.
10) You know how to pronounce "Mackinac."
11) You've had to swtich on the "heat" and "A/C" in the same day.
12) You can see a car running in a parking lot with no one it, no matter what time of the year.
13) You end your sentences with preposition, example: "Where's my cost at?"
14) You bake with SODA and drink a POP.
15) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain or animal.
16) You think of the 4 major food groups as beef, pork, BBQ sauce and beer.
17) You carry jumper cables in your car.
18) You design your kids Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
19) Driving in the winter is better, because the potholes are filled with snow.
20) Your favorite holiday are Christmas, Thanksgiving and opening of Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.
21) You have (10) favorite recipes for Venison.
22) You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
23) Your little league game was snowed out.
24) You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.
25) You owe more money on your snowmoible than your car.
26) Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.
27) Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
28) You attend a formal event in your best clothing, finest jewelry, and snowmobile boots.
29) The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.
30) The word "thumb" has geographical, rather than anatomical significance.
31) You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand.
32) Traveling coast-to-coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.
33) You measure distance in minutes.
34) When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
35) You know that Battle Creek not only exist, but isn't that far from Hell.
36) You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
37) Your year has 2 seasons: Winter and Construction.
38) Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
39) You know when it has rained, because of smell of worms or fish.
40) Owning a Japanese car was a hangin' offense in your hometown.
41) You believe that "down south" mean Toledo.
42) You think that everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
43) YOU ACTUALLY 'GET' THESES JOKES AND TELL YOUR MICHIGAN FRIENDS.

 

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GPSHS Reunion Greetings
Slideshow No. 3

From Irene (Cotzias) Wingfield:
01) You know what it means if someone tell you to "Hit Eight Mile."
02) As a child you thought the big tire on I-94 might roll away one day.
03) You got excited about going to Bob-Lo (or seeing Captain Bob-Lo) Moonlight Cruises or Edgewater Amusement Park.
04) You remember cheering from one end of the tunnel to the other while going to Belle Isle.
05) You rode horses or the horse drawn carriages on Belle Isle and made out at the fountain after a date.
06) You have ever shopped at Hughes and Hatchers, B. Siegel, Peck and Peck, Himelhoch's, Federal's, Crowley's, Winkelman's, Arlan's, EJ Korvett, Robert Hall, Kern's or Berlin's.
07) You've ever played on the escalator at Hudson's downtown.
08) You remember when Northland or Eastland was not an enclosed mall.
09) Playing on the statues at the malls. Sculptor Marshall Frederick has all his work at Saginaw Valley SU MI Campus.
10) You remember mayors other than Young and Arches, and you know who Cobo was.
11) You remember what you were doing when you got word there was a riot going on.
12) You thought driving to Southfield was going "out to the country."
13) You remember the "Big Snow, Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Calarabell, Phineas T. Bluster, Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring."
14) You remember Twin Pines Dairy delivered milk and juice to the chute on the side of your house. You went on tours at Twin Pines Dairy. Milky the Clown performed Magic with the magic words, "Twin Pines."
15) You remember the Good Humor man in a white uniform, on a bicycle with a freezer attached to it and ringing the bells riding down your street.
16) You saw Marvin Gaye,the Beatles, Herman and the Hermits sing at the Olympia Stadium.
17) You remember the Olympia Stadium and the Red Wings.
18) You remember the Detroit Wheels football team.
19) You sometimes wonder what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
20) You remember when there was no Lodge Freeway, no I-696, and I-75 only went as far as Troy.
21) You remember when Vernor's was made on Woodward and the bearded troll was on the bottle.
22) You drank Towne Club pop (or Oh-So pop).
23) You bought groceries at Chatham's, Food Fair, Great Scott and Wrigley's.
24) Your school took a bus trip to "the cider mill" and had donuts and cider after the tour. (Yates Cider Mill).
25) Your school took a bus trip to Kellogg's in Battle Creek and received cereal.
26) Your school took a bus trip to Better Made and New Era potato chip factory. Also Sanders and Coca-Cola bottling plant. At Wonder Bread plant you received tiny leaves of bread.
27) You had an Uncle in the furniture business (Joshua Doore).
28) You know who Bill Kennedy or the Ghoul is.
30) You remember this telephone number: Tyler 8-7100 (Belvedere Construction).
32) You saw the Lion's play football at Tiger (Briggs) Stadium.
33) You remember the Grande Ballroom.
34) You remember the big stove on Jefferson near Belle Isle.
35) You remember this phrase "suga is suga and salt is salt, if you didn't get off, it's not my fault."
36) You remember Carol Duval craft show.
37) You remember the Faygo pop song being sung on the Bob-Lo boat ("which way did he go, which way did he go...")
38) You watched Rita Bell's Prize Movies in the morning.
39) You know of Sonny Elliot (Weatherman), Jack LeGoff (Newsman) and Van Patrick (Sports).
40) You remember Milky the Clown, Soupy Sales, Black Tooth, White Fang, Uncle Bob, Poopdeck Paul and Captain Jolly. Also Jerry Booth, Cecil B. Rabbit, Herkimer Dragon, Jingles, and the court Jester (on CKLW).

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