In reality, I haven’t talked to John Roeck (formerly of the Warren Consolidated Schools school district serving the Metropolitan Detroit area) and Jeannette Wesolowski of the Macomb Intermediate School District (another school district that also serves the Metropolitan Detroit area) in years ever since they both retired from their jobs.
I miss them dearly and I really enjoyed having them as my friends. In all honesty, I just can’t move past them, let go of them; and forget about them.
Pictures of John Roeck:
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Pictures of Jeannette Wesolowski:
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My mother would have always made a great School Bus driver, and in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, she has been a School Bus driver working for John Roeck since 1991. As a professional and not a personal opinion, my mother would be as good of an employee as people such as Linda Koch, Pam Suer, Donna Dawe, Sue Henstock, Nancy Hume, Anita Stubblefield and her daughter Lisa Fleming; Lee Ann Roberts, and Marie Sarchol.
Mary Ann & Whit’s house in Troy, New York. This is where Mary Ann, Whit; and their family lived before they had moved to Weston, Vermont so that Whit could get into selling Real Estate.
Video of the Redstone missile being tested at the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant in the late 1950’s. At the end of WWII, the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant became the headquarters of their Defense Division until they had spun their Defense Division off to General Dynamics in 1982.
My paternal grandparents’ house where my father and my aunt had both grew up off of 8 Mile Road and Ryan Road in Warren, Michigan. This is where we move my paternal grandmother out of and into our new house in Oakland Township, Michigan in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
Video of the Chrysler Stamping Plant on Mound Road in Warren, Michigan where Joe had worked from when he wasd discharged from the military after WWII until he had retired in 1969.
The plant is located next door to the Dodge Truck Assembly Plant, just north of the other plant.
This is a home video that was taken by somebody as part of a field trip to this plant that students from the St. Clement Parochial/Catholic school had taken in November, 1993:
Videos of the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant in Warren, Michigan, with some mention of the nearby Dodge Truck assembly plant that’s also located in Warren, Michigan. At the time, the Dodge Truck assembly plant was building the famous WC military trucks that would evolve into the civilian market Power Wagon after the war.
The City of Warren, Michigan; being rural, sparsely populated; and bearing the name Warren Township, as the place had still yet to designated an official city (which wouldn’t occur until 1957 with the incorporation of the City of Warren) was better than being the sprawling, crowded, urban metropolis it is today and has been since the early 1960’s. The City of Warren was in this rural state as of the time my paternal grandparents had bought the property off of 8 Mile Road and Ryan Road in Warren, Michigan on the Warren-Detroit city borders and the Macomb-Wayne county borders to construct the house that my father and my aunt had grown up in. And Joe & Martha have done the same, buying the property located a few streets down from where my paternal grandparents’ house is located; also off of 8 Mile Road and Ryan Road where Joe had built one part of the house that Margaret & Ann had grown up in before the war, Martha had lived in the original part of the house during the war; and the once Joe had returned home after the war, Joe had built the addition that consisted of 2 bedrooms (both of which were Margaret & Ann’s).
The street that my paternal grandparents, my father, and my aunt had all lived on wasn’t paved until the early 1960’s, and my father personally remembers being a young boy sitting on the front porch of their house with the massive paving machine coming by to pave their street. Joe & Martha’s street, located a few streets down; was at first dirt, then it was gravel; and even later, it was paved.
The City of Warren becoming the sprawling, urban metropolis it is today is as depressing as the City of Rochester Hills, Michigan (formerly Avon Township) (and not Rochester City, Michigan; located north of Rochester Hills, and where we move to in Early Life And Continuous Livelihood) having more recently become a sprawling, urban metropolis. The cities of Chesterfield, Michigan and nearby New Baltimore, Michigan also having more recently become a sprawling, urban metropolis; and also, the City of Bethany/West Chester, Ohio also having become a sprawling, urban metropolis ever since the decommission of the Crosley/Voice Of America Bethany, Ohio shortwave transmitter site are also all depressing.
In other words, I prefer that these areas forevermore remain rural and sparsely populated.
Enjoy the history of the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant in Warren, Michigan and the place being rural and sparsely populated as you watch these videos.
Website about a man, his family history; and some history about the City of Warren, Michigan with an article about the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant:
Since we’re on the topic of the automotive industry and how it was key to transforming the City of Warren, Michigan into the sprawling, urban metropolis it is today; here is a video of the dedication by President Eisenhower of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan upon it’s completion in 1956. Like both the Chrysler “Detroit Arsenal” tank plant and the Dodge Truck assembly plant, the GM Technical Center is too; a part of the automotive fabric within the community of Warren, Michigan and helping shape the City of Warren into what it is today.
In this video, the area is still, for the most part; rural. Shown in this video is the entry into the complex off of Mound Road in Warren, Michigan and the rural scenery being obvious.
In response to GM employees and their families moving into the area from Detroit city proper, a new subdivision, an Elementary School; and a strip mall were all built near the Technical Center during the years 1955-1957 at the corner of 13 Mile Road and Mound Road.
Since we’re on the topic of the Michigan State Fairgrounds, let’s talk about the time it was used as an automobile racetrack prior to the construction of the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan; and also as a horse racetrack.
The NASCAR races held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in the early 1950’s (and early in NASCAR’s history) were the auto executives’ very first taste of what NASCAR is and what modifying a car into a stock car is all about. The auto executives who had attended these races that were held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds were so impressed that they persuaded the companies that they work for to begin supporting and fielding cars from their respective manufacturers for NASCAR. This paved the way for things such as Chrysler building the Plymouth Superbird/Charger Daytona and for Ford building the Torino Talladega, the Torino King Cobra; and the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II. These NASCAR races held at the Michigan State Fairgrounds also inspired Ford to start it’s corporate-owned NASCAR race team based in Charlotte, North Carolina-which later became Holman-Moody, which has a long history of fielding Ford products for racing themselves. John Holman and Ralph Moody had both jointly purchased the race team from the Ford Motor Company in 1957 when Ford had wanted out of being directly in the racing business.
Once Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan was completed in 1966, it had signaled the end of the Michigan State Fairgrounds being used for automobile races and MIS (Michigan International Speedway) became the only racetrack that NASCAR would use in the entire State of Michigan from this point forward.
In “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, Chris & Jim take the children of my mother’s brothers and my mother’s eldest brother’s niece & nephew to the circus that has been long held at the coliseum within the Michigan State Fairgrounds. They all go in Chris’s GM Full-Size van.
My mother’s parents and Bernice also join them at the coliseum within the Michigan State Fairgrounds to spectate the circus.
For Bernice, it’s just a short drive from her house down 9 Mile Road and up Woodward Avenue until she arrives at the Michigan State Fairgrounds.
Location of where in the Metropolitan Detroit area the Michigan State Fairgrounds are, being that the area was sparsely populated as of 1905; and the area wasn’t built up until the 1920’s through the 1940’s, particularly the homes and the Elementary School surrounding the Michigan State Fairgrounds.
Thomas did not build a front-engine Transit style School Bus as of the era of the old, retired School Bus that we buy in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
Thomas also didn’t build a front-engine Transit style School Bus during the time the Arthur movie for adults takes place.
Thomas Built School Bus – 54 – Tempe Union High School District Surplus
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