Posted October 26, 200618 yr ColDayMan requested pictures from Mexicantown. If there is anything else there you guys want to see then go ahead and tell me. Bagley is the main road for Mexicantown. That's where all the restaurants are and for the most part all the nice buildings. On the far south side of Mexicantown there is a lot of newer houses. "STE. ANNE CHURCH On July 26, 1701, two days after his arrival, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, built a chapel dedicated to Ste. Anne, patron saint of New France. Father Francois Vaillant, a Jesuit, and Father Nicholas Constantine Delhalle, a Franciscan, were instrumental in the founding of the parish. The church records, which date from 1704, are now the second oldest continuous Roman Catholic parish records in the nation. From 1833 to 1844, Ste. Anne's was the Cathedral Church for the diocese of Michigan and the Northwest. The cornerstone for the present Gothic Revival building, the parish's eighth home, was laid in 1886. The handsome structure, designed by parishioner Leon Coquard, displays the oldest stained glass in the city. In the Gabriel Richard Chapel, enclosed in a marble tomb, lie the remains of Father Gabrial Richard."
October 26, 200618 yr Zach, I used to live in Royal Oak. If you'd like to do so, it'd be cool to see how the place has changed since 2000.
October 27, 200618 yr Take a snapshot of a crackhead running down the street with a TV set. You dick. That's pretty funny, though. hahaha. Jack White lived in Mexicantown, didn't he? My co-worker when I worked in Michigan went to a show at the Magic Stick downtown, and he saw him hanging out in the crowd. Detroit has the best local rock scene around, in my opinion. There's just something way more exciting and interesting about a band from Detroit that looks like they just pulled themselves out of the gutter than those weenies from Williamsburg.
October 27, 200618 yr Awesome awesome awesome!!! You did not disappoint!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 27, 200618 yr Zach, I used to live in Royal Oak. If you'd like to do so, it'd be cool to see how the place has changed since 2000. Sure, I've never been to Royal Oak but I've heard how nice it is.
November 1, 200618 yr Zach, I used to live in Royal Oak. If you'd like to do so, it'd be cool to see how the place has changed since 2000. can you say 20 story condo towers? also, i've never realized this, but St. Annes bears some first glance similarities to St. Stanislaus here in Slavic village Go Oaks
November 1, 200618 yr Take a snapshot of a crackhead running down the street with a TV set. You dick. That's pretty funny, though. hahaha. Jack White lived in Mexicantown, didn't he? My co-worker when I worked in Michigan went to a show at the Magic Stick downtown, and he saw him hanging out in the crowd. Detroit has the best local rock scene around, in my opinion. There's just something way more exciting and interesting about a band from Detroit that looks like they just pulled themselves out of the gutter than those weenies from Williamsburg. thats because the rawk will always be a blue collar game, not a rich kid vocation. viva la rock. otoh, i dont think the white stripes could even get arrested anymore. next!
November 1, 200618 yr Take a snapshot of a crackhead running down the street with a TV set. You dick. That's pretty funny, though. hahaha. Jack White lived in Mexicantown, didn't he? My co-worker when I worked in Michigan went to a show at the Magic Stick downtown, and he saw him hanging out in the crowd. Detroit has the best local rock scene around, in my opinion. There's just something way more exciting and interesting about a band from Detroit that looks like they just pulled themselves out of the gutter than those weenies from Williamsburg. thats because the rawk will always be a blue collar game, not a rich kid vocation. viva la rock. otoh, i dont think the white stripes could even get arrested anymore. next! Still, most white rock stars that say they're from Detroit are from the suburbs.
November 1, 200618 yr a musician from a burb of detroit is still blue collar vs the money behind those billyburg poseur rawker kids.
November 1, 200618 yr I believe St. Anne is the full-on Patron Saint of Detroit. Southwest Detroit is a jewel. I considered buying a home there, but I could never reconcile the smell of Zug Island. If ever there were a case for reimplementing the ward system in Detroit it's this area. Incredibly underepresented, yet still incredibly vital. Hells yeah Xochimilco's! High up in my top 15 favorite Detroit restaurants. My old band wrote a tribute to that place called "Sketches of Xoci's." I'll post an MP3 one of these years. Many Detroit band members and hipster-types live in--or have lived in--southwest Detroit. I believe Jack White has the distinction of actually having been born there. Thanks again, Zach.
November 1, 200618 yr Thanks for the replies everyone! I'm still working on everyone's photo requests from the thread I made from them. Keep in mind if there is every anywhere in Detroit (or Michigan) you would like to see pics from then feel free to send me a message.
November 2, 200618 yr i believe mr. white lived in corktown, but what do i know. Nope, Jack White did in fact live in Mexicantown: http://www.motorcityrocks.com/mex.htm I like how Detroit has a musician for nearly any interest...Jack White, Eminem, Kid Rock, The Nuge!
November 2, 200618 yr Any pics of Sherwood Forest? Nope but I'm going to Detroit tomorrow morning so I will get some for ya.
November 2, 200618 yr i believe mr. white lived in corktown, but what do i know. Nope, Jack White did in fact live in Mexicantown: http://www.motorcityrocks.com/mex.htm I like how Detroit has a musician for nearly any interest...Jack White, Eminem, Kid Rock, The Nuge! The Nuge lives in Jackson.
November 2, 200618 yr didn't the nuge move next door to GWB? (his ranch, not DC) If so, let's hope W doesn't go traipsing around in his albino buffalo costume.
November 2, 200618 yr Yeah, but he's the Motor City Madman, so he's got Detroit roots. None of those guys live in Detroit proper. Kid Rock is from Romeo, Michigan, which is in Macomb County.
November 2, 200618 yr And Eminem hails from Warren, also in Macomb county. Wait, there was almost a thread on this once: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10111.0
November 16, 200618 yr I went here for the first time this year. I found it a little rundown, but there were a lot of businesses here. It wasn't what I was expecting though, after listening to people talk about it. How about Wyandotte next!!!
December 10, 200618 yr Mexicantown International Welcome Center and Mercado No no no! That's simply too close to the street. Back. Further back. Keep going. That's right: all the way back to 1958. Perfecto!
December 10, 200618 yr kingfish: I haven't been myself yet, but from what i hear pictures of the mercado really aren't doing it justice and that it really is a nice aspect/integrated into the community. (like i said, just what i hear)
December 10, 200618 yr Uncle Rando, you took the vomit, er words, right out of my mouth! Damn, I miss Xochimilco's. Especially the chips hot out of the oven! Back when the a USD was good for 1.5CDN, we would head there on Tuesdays, when Xochi's took Canadian money at par. Fridays, they had took Canadian money at par on booze. Or was it the other way around? Many a good night has started there, even if we couldn't remember it!
December 10, 200618 yr Mexicantown International Welcome Center and Mercado No no no! That's simply too close to the street. Back. Further back. Keep going. That's right: all the way back to 1958. Perfecto! OUTDATED Called out.
December 10, 200618 yr Very nice. We went to Mexicantown a few years ago for dinner. I just remember the tight group of Mexican restaurants -- and the good food, of course, but didn't see much of the nabe. It reminds me of a number of East Side Cleveland neighborhoods, particularly St. Clair-Superior. Next time, if you could give an update on the lower Woodward Ave corridor, particularly btw New Center and downtown; lots of good stuff going on there when I last visited last summer.
December 11, 200618 yr kingfish: I haven't been myself yet, but from what i hear pictures of the mercado really aren't doing it justice and that it really is a nice aspect/integrated into the community. (like i said, just what i hear) "Mercado" is Spanish for "Ferndale Public Library," right?
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