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Hamtramck, MI 48212. 3020 Caniff, Hamtramck, MI 48212 • (313) 874-2100 Like Volume 8 No. 9 Us On: February 26, 2016 50¢ See Back Page for Music Line-up www.hamtramckreview.com • e-mail [email protected] 3236 Caniff St. • Hamtramck 48212 — HAMTRAMCK'S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD — Music fest offers more St. Lads parishioners take a stand of everything against a likely sale of their church By Charles Sercombe Move over Nashville, By Charles Sercomb x ment. Hamtramck is going to be Two years ago it was an - Bankowski said a deci - Music City this coming nounced that St. Ladislaus sion on whether to close week. Church would be closing. the church will be made by The 3rd Annual Ham - Quick Hits That turned out to be pre - the Detroit Archdiocese in tramck Music Festival It’s time once again to mature. the coming weeks. The kicks off this Thursday test your knowledge of But now it appears that parish council vote, he (March 3) and runs Hamtramck trivia. day may come. Last Sun - stressed, was only an advi - through Sunday (March 6). The next installment of day about 40 parishioners sory vote. This year’s festival, which Hamtrivia is this Satur - demonstrated in front of Despite that vote, which is run by unpaid volun - day (Feb. 27) at the the church over what might was a close one, teers, has expanded to in - Hamtramck Moose be an impending closing. Bankowski said the church clude more than 200 Lodge No. 1670, at Protest organizer Walter is on solid financial ground. bands and 25 venues 9421 Conant. Bankowski said the parish “This is a financially vi - scattered throughout the The fun will run from 7- council recently voted to able church,” he said. city. Last year it attracted 10 p.m. There will be close the church. The plan There are about 200 thousands of music fans. would be for the parish to parishioners here. four rounds of ques - The festival is not only a merge with Transfiguration Bankowski said that St. tions, including one unique opportunity to Church in Detroit. Lad’s parishioners won’t specifically on Ham - catch up-and-coming Both churches are part of likely transfer to Transfigu - tramck. There will also bands, but also long-time what’s called the Pope John ration and instead will go to be prizes, of sorts, but favorites as well – all for a Paul II Parish. Fr. Andrew Queen of Apostles or St. the emphasis is on hav - mere $10. Wesley, who is the head of Florian, both of which are in St. Ladislaus parishioners participate in a demonstra - ing a good time. You can purchase a the combined parish, did Hamtramck. tion last Sunday to protest a possible closure of their The Moose Lodge also wristband during regular not return a call for com - church. has a full bar, which will Continued on page 4 business hours at the fol - help loosen up your young men living in differ - Jos. Campau to Lumpkin in lowing locations: Detroit memory cells, and light ent corners of the city — those days. This was be - Threads, Café 1923, Dear - food will be served. he said he didn’t venture fore the Hamtramck Town born Music, Encore Admission is $10, with over to the side of town Center was built, sadly de - Records, Flipside Records, proceeds going to sup - where much of this action stroying the integrity of the Found Sound, Friends port the Hamtramck His - was. commercial street wall Closet, Hello Records, torical Museum. He had not heard of the south of Holbrook. Melodies & Memories, Come and join the fun. Misty Inn or the creative My family lived on Edwin Paramita Sound, People’s music scene that it at Gallagher, roughly 12 Records, Record Grave - spawned. My guess is that blocks from the Kowalskis. yard, Solo Records, Small’s Quote of Adventures close to home it isn’t so much because It wasn’t the northend; it Bar, Stormy Records, the week … (Editor’s note: City Life is we are working on for the Greg was not necessarily a was almost perfectly cen - Street Corner Music and a column about walkable end of summer and early fan of Hamtramck rock ’n’ tral. I grew up with a kind of UHF Records. Who said this, and what is it discovery in Hamtramck.) fall devoted to local music. roll, but that he was a geographic elasticity, com - The Hamtramck Music about? You can find the By Walter Wasacz But something else southender and the bar fortable moving around the Festival kickoff party will be quote and the story it be - A few weeks ago I struck me during our con - was on the northend (yes, city in any direction on foot held from 8 p.m. until 1:30 longs to somewhere in the a.m. on March 3rd at the pages of this issue. stopped into the Ham - versation. While we were that’s how we spell it, as or bicycle. tramck Historical Museum talking about places where one compound word) on As a kid, I bowled at Play - Fowling Warehouse, 3901 “Often I find their tax for a chat with its director, some music events took Jos. Campau near Commor. dium, at the corner of Jos. Christopher St. Two live return is wrong.” Greg Kowalski. We talked place here in the 1970s — His family lived on Wyan - Campau and Faber, and stages and nine bands will mostly about an exhibition when Greg and I were then dotte, which stretched from Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 en Chick yro, ffles G p & Wa s & Po 99 Frie $6 $699 ger, Bur r & Bee Try Fries 2403 Holbrook WE CATER! Our 99 Gift Certificates Famous $ Hamtramck 6 Lunch & Dinner Served Noon-9pm Open Mon-Sat 6am-11:30pm Ribs Closed Sunday 313-872-0387 Noon-6pm March 4 only. Home of the Original Lake Perch Dinner Taco & Reuben Pierogies Cod Dinner • Fish Sandwich 2 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 Friday, February 26, 2016 wondered, and if remedi - The Mistele Coal yard was ated what can it become in directly ahead. Heading the future? north, I walked into the tun - Moving onto Denton St. nel beneath the tracks, and toward Jos. Campau, head full with snapshots memories flashed of large taken from personal his - buildings that once existed tory, stretching back years on this land. I remembered and years. I was excited to the Polar Brand ice cream see them again so vividly. company and Ida Windows, More adventures are sure Continued from page front page both lost to dramatic fires to come I was thinking as I played baseball at Veter - where the Hamtramck in the 1970s and 1980s. I headed up the sidewalk ans and Playfair parks on Woody Plaza is now. The recalled how McDougall under the bridge and back the southend. I also plaza, which houses Michi - retired in 2000. Woody was today in so many ways. St., now erased from this into the light. bowled occasionally at gan Health and Human 94 when he died in 2002. My current walking ad - old neighborhood, once North End Recreation (yes, Services offices, is named At age 11 and 12, I ventures are inspired by connected Miller and Den - Walter Wasacz spends that’s how they spelled it), for the late Woodrow W. would ride my bike to the memories such as these. ton. most of his time walking, in a building on Jos. Cam - Woody, a beloved car edges of Hamtramck’s city Last week, I took a hike to I paused at the viaduct at reminiscing and writing in pau south of Carpenter. dealer who sold Pontiacs limits, to borders on the a part of town I have not Jos. Campau. Dodge Main Hamtramck, where he was The building was demol - on that site (and in still east, north and south and been to in some time. On a once loomed tall to my left. born and still lives. ished decades ago (as was viewable commercials you west — once, I remember sunny afternoon I headed Playdium, but more re - can find on YouTube), in a crossing Dequindre at Can - south on Conant under the cently, in the 1990s). building that also no longer iff before I-75 was built and viaduct and past the for - It was located roughly exists, from 1940 until he then riding down to Rus - mer Missant building — sell, which once extended once home to the Olsonite from Eastern Market to Corporation, a manufac - Holbrook as a busy sec - turer that was an innovator ondary thoroughfare.