Three photographs that trace lost time. Above: tornado damage in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at Moross and Lakeshore. Several tornadoes blasted the Detroit area on July 2, 1997. People were killed at this site (blown out into Lake St. Clair), which I drove by about two hours before this particular tornado struck. I had checked on a work acquaintance's pet dog in St. Clair Shores and was driving to Grosse Pointe to visit a then brother-in-law in the smallest house in that little city, an inner suburb of Detroit; spent the actual event in a basement while it roared overhead.
The Colonial Inn & Restaurant, Hillsborough, North Carolina. This was a cozy place that served southern-style family meals in a historical setting. 153 West King Street; current structure built in 1838. Presently, it is in limbo. For more, here's a link: http://www.colonialinnhillsborough.org/
The Ivy Room in Durham, North Carolina, closed since the mid-1980s after a forty or so year run. This was another cozy place -- with "Chicken in the Rough." An excellent website called Endangered Durham has a nifty entry on the Ivy Room, with photos; a couple of them can be matched with this shot I took in March of 1986, soon after it closed. For more, please see: http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2006/11/ivy-room.html
Today's Rune: Defense.
6 comments:
Erik, How come I don't remember that? Usually they only hit trailer parks!
I remember that blow quite well, leveled half of Hamtramk. I stood in the city garage at Southfield and Plymouth and watched it pop transformers one right after the other. It picked up wind speed exponentially as it went east.
I REMEMBER THE IVORY ROOM. IT WAS A VERY GOOD PLACE TO EAT AND ENJOY THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS. COLONIAL INN TOOK YOU BACK TO ANOTHER ERA. A KINSMAN ENLISTED IN THE WAR THERE IN HILLSBOROUGH DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY DAYS. THOSE PLACES TO EAT CERTAINLY OUTDID THE FAST FOOD PLACES. IN TODAYS WORLD EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ABOUT SPEED,
I'm rather sorry to have missed what were certainly some fine restruants.
One of my strong childhood memories is seeing the aftermath of a tornado that hit Oak Lawn, Illinois in 1967. It went down Southwest Highway, leveling a bunch of businesses there and hit the huge Oak Lawn high school. Nobody in the high school was hurt or killed, but there were 33 people killed in the Chicago area.
Hey, thanks all for the comments!
Johnny, this gives me the chills -- yesterday I was looking through the old super 8 mm films to be transferred onto DVD & one of them (to my sutrprise) was footage of Oak Lawn in the aftermath of that same tornado: we lived in the Chicago area in 1967. How eerie is that?
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