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Call now at (313) 559-6500. • Detroit's only heated indoor/outdoor pool • Fully-equipped health club • Tennis courts • Finnish saunas • Three fine restaurants • Sunday brunch, family style Friday dinner • Poolside Cafe • Live entertainment at Dewey's Your INN for the best of everything WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Danny Raskin's 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. Guest Columnist - —