My Detroit pt4

Detroit during the sixties was a great place to be  from a kids point of view.There was the Pistons Booster club, the Tiger Dugout club, the Red Wings at the Olympia, Parks and Recreations organized sports, Boy Scout meetings at the Second Baptist Church in Greek town. Roller skating at the Arcadia Roller skating rink and Brewster center.   Activities at the Y.M.&Y.W.C.A.'s, movie theaters downtown and all along Woodward Ave. (note) "I'm speaking primarily about that segment of Detroit in close proximity to the Brewster Douglass Housing projects."                                                                                                                                                                                                           Barry Gordy, Motown Records founder sometimes held rehersals in bldg. 641 Winder, the bldg. where his brother George lived.  Mary Wilson of the Supremes lived in bldg 2600 St Antoine. Her sister Kathlene and I were in the same homeroom class in Bishop elementary school. Diana Ross lived in the row houses across the street from Mary's bldg. Jackie Wilson ate dinner with my family just before he won the talent contest at the Fox theatre which led to his recording contract and his appearence on the Ed Sullivan Show. Just about everybody with Motown in the early days were familiar faces in and around the Brewster Projects.Aretha Franklin lived in the area between the Chrysler service Dr.( which was Hastings) and the Eastern Market, with her father Rev. C. L. Franklin and her 2 sisters. Willie Tyler, a  vintriloquist and actor appearedon numerous TV shows with his dummy Lester. But he delivered papers for the Detroit Times in the projects before he became famous. One time when Stevie Wonder was visiting in the projects he rode my first two-wheel bike. The Brewsters was like a training ground for soon to be famous.   to be con't.