In Livonia, Trinity House is surrounded by a cemetery, but it’s a community theater. Rural vestiges like George Farms give way to massive Northville High (2,200-plus students). Heading east, Steeplechase of Northville has homes priced from just under $600,000 (you get paved roads, though). An abandoned school at Napier Road sits by Thayer Cemetery and Thayer’s Corner Nature Area. In Wayne County’s far western reaches, Six Mile is dirt road.
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A dozen years ago, they added Lionel trains into the mix, plus hobby items.įrom a shuttered 1800s schoolhouse to a nearly abandoned east-side neighborhood that’s going fallow, Six Mile (aka McNichols Road) is a study in contradictions. John’s Golf & Conference Center, with three appropriately named nines (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), a hotel, and 5ive Restaurant.įor 30-plus years, area residents bought new and used lawn and snow equipment - and got old stuff service - at Tony’s Mower Shop and Trains. In 1994, it was revived for retreats and conferences. As seminarians declined, the Archdiocese of Detroit closed it. Continue west to Brae Burn Golf Club and U.S. The former Detroit House of Correction was established in 1927. The biggest surprise? An abandoned prison in Plymouth. Roll past elements of our rural past, from Chap’s Feed Store to Ropertis Turkey Farm, and Tony’s Mower Shop and Trains.Īfter twists and turns around Phoenix Lake, spy the tower at The Inn at St. and Ackroyd’s Scottish Bakery near Beech-Daly Road (try the shortbread or sausage rolls). Redford has a host of small shops, such as Floyd’s Flowers Inc. Some of those rooms look out on Lola Valley Park, where The Upper Rouge River winds through the neighborhood. Cross Evergreen into beleaguered Brightmoor for more motorcycle clubs, urban gardeners, and churches.Īnother type of faithful gather at Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips, there since 1950.Ĭross the Rouge River and you’re into the bedroom community of Redford Township. Model apothecary bottles line outside the drug-less Sam’s Liquor Shoppe and Pharmacy.įurther west is solidly residential (Grandmont and Rosedale Park). Mixed among the fast food offerings: Akbar’s restaurant, plus a few joints that look like they may or may not be open. (It’s a toss-up whether there are more churches or party stores.) Blessed Ground International Ministries sits across from the shell of the legendary Watts Club Mozambique male strip joint (it burned in 2015). Like much of the city, religion helps hold things together, from established sites like Loyola High School to storefronts like New Liberty Apostolic.
There are hints of former prosperity surviving wig shops and nail salons mingle with abandoned storefronts and vacant land. The first scene: “Satan’s Sidekicks” motorcycle club. 23.įenkell shows that it’s tough right away. It starts out urban at M-10 and ends up bucolic by U.S. Like children, all mile roads are unique.
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