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55Packardconv wrote:
Leeedy and Mr. Pushbutton are the guys you want to talk to about Conner. Leeedy grew up in the area, and Mr. Pushbutton did an article for the Packard Club's "The Packard Cormorant" magazine on the topic. There isn't a lot of material out there on Conner; but what there is, they would know about it.
Thanks. Actually I only lived in Detroit's east side up until I was about 9 or so and not so close to Conner. But with owning businesses in the area, we were there often. I actually grew up most of my formative years on the northwest side near Palmer Park.
In the days of the Conner Plant, northwest Detroit was like being on another planet. There were no cross-town expressways, so everybody drove surface streets for the most part to get around. A trip from my house to my uncle's store was a lonnnng trek. But we did so on a regular basis. And a DSR bus ride was like an endless journey. I can recall more than once falling asleep on the way home from East Jefferson and ending up at the end of the line in the middle of nowhere!
It was a very different world then... and of course a very, very different city.
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