26 Friday, July 4, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Italian-American Restaurant
22812 WOODWARD at 9 MILE 548-5005
18211 JOHN Ft
Bet. 6 S 7 Mile Rtis:
869-5674
HARVEY URNOVITZ'S
HUNGARIAN
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ANY TIME
• Home-Made Soups • Chili
• Greek Salad
• Our Famous Hamburgers
• Baklava •Coney Islands
• Excellent Tuna Sandwiches
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
SUN. THRU THURS. 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
FRI. & SAT. 11 a.m. to 4 a.m.
Serving From Pizza to Antipasto
To Steaks & Fish To
Complete Italian Dinners
SEE OUR NEW MENU ... EVERYTHING
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25920 GREENFIELD
COR. LINCOLN
968-4060
MON.-SAT. 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Invites You To Enjoy
ONE OF THE FINEST FAMILY DINING
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LISTENING
POST
By FATHER
TIME
the basement.
Kids loved silly songs like
Retracing footprints "Mairzy Doats" or romantic
down the paths of yesterday ballads like "I'll Walk
. . . Do you remember what Alone."
it was like to be a teenager
Jefferson Beach was a
in Detroit during the fabul-
great place to gather and
ous 1940s?
Looking back four de- cool off on Sunday after-
cades, the "singles scene" noon. Edgewater Park was
as we know it today seems in its heyday. Hayrides at
more remote than Buck Ro- Joey's Stables were memor- ,
able.
gers' rocket to the moon.
But for teens in the 40s,
Many of us were getting
an education, working for Detroit's character was in
the war effort, serving in its neighborhoods. Kids
the armed forces or carving lived on LaSalle or Fuller-
out a career. Whatever we ton or Sturtevant or El-
were doing, our parents mhurst or Leslie among
considered us too young to other streets which were
get married. But we weren't hubs of activity. -
labeled "singles." We may
Most kids were without
have been deplored as crea-
cars so they traveled by foot
tures called "adolescents."
or bike to places within the
The big deal was Fri- residential ring. Many went
day night club meetings to the Dexter Theater for
with an all girl member- Saturday matinees which
ship
an excuse for in- included cartoons, short
viting boys to "crash" subjects, newreels and dou-
what really were open- ble features — definitely
house parties.
not X-rated.
Eastwood Park, where
The Esquire Deli and
gals and guys danced to the Bowl-A-Drome on Dexter
romantic big-band sounds of were popular teen spots.
yesteryear, was a teenage You could eat your way
institution. There were no up and down Dexter and
disco clubs to show off in.
Linwood and 12th Street
You may recall sipping — Boesky's, Buddie's,
sodas at Sosin's on Linwood Cream of Michigan —
or dancin' to swingeroo and that's only scratch-
quickies on juke box Satur- ing the surface.
day night. Maybe you sat
Drive-in restaurants and
through Jeanette
McDonald and Nelson Eddy drive-in movies were af-
fordable for teens lucky
movies at the old Avalon
enough to have wheels or to
Theater on Linwood munch-
borrow dad's car. A & W root
ing nickel candy bars.
Many of us went to Cen- beers and hamburgers were
tral or Northern High favorite drive-in fare. And
School — on foot or by bus — "necking" was the best part
and ate everything from of outdoor movies.
corned beef sandwiches to
Venturing away from
penny licorice at the shop home territory, teens
nearby. And speaking of danced on moonlight excur-
corned beef brings back sions on the Bob-Lo Boat or
memories of walking down took an afternoon boat ride
Dexter Blvd., a mecca for to Tashmoo Park.
delicatessens or so we
thought.
Nothing tasted as good on
Girls wore dirty saddle a hot night as Vernor's
shoes, porkpie hats and ginger ale right on Wood-
pell mells (a kind of rain ward downtown where it
coat). Sweaters were big was made. And even the
and sloppy and skirts ride downtown was cooling
were short and pleated. and refreshing in the days
Lipstick was deep purple before air conditioning.
For those growing up in
or black cherry with nail
polish to match. Pom- the 40s, Detroit had a little
padours and chignons bit of everything — the zoo,
made glamorous hairdos where animals roam freely
for gals who didn't have and people go to watch
people watching monkeys
Toni home permanents.
Some boys wore sloppy — Belle Isle, where kids sat
pants, loafers and dangling near the casino and watched
shirttails, and others dres- the fascinating patterns of
sed like Joe College. Fads water traffic — the Fisher
like the broad, baggy "zoot Building with its green top
suit" won brief approval but which turns into a lighted, a
soon died — victims of teen- golden dome at night — fan-
age conventionalism. There tastic Greenfield Village —•
were few rebels in the '40s. Washington Boulevard
With almost everyone over with the old Book Cadillac _
18 in service, younger boys — Grand Circus Park's six
were often the biggest men acres of trees and benches —
in town. But few girls could the once-blazing marquees
of the theater district
resist a uniform.
Jitterbugging was the downtown — Briggs
dance of the 40s and it Stadium — the Gayety Bur-
was usually done at the lesque — memories — a
home of whoever7s par- sweet 16 party — a Bar
ents had the biggest and Mitzva — a mosaic of yes-
best recreation room in teryears.
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