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OCTOBER 6 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): Folks in Armada and those living on Mound Road in Washington Township would travel to the D. U. R. station in Romeo on West St. Clair Street by horse or carriage. They would get on the streetcar and ride to the Detroit Opera House. The only transportation in the 1900 photo is by horse or carriage. From northern Macomb County the only reasonable option was the streetcar. “My mother and her girlfriends would take the Inter-Urban car to downtown Detroit (I believe Hudson’s Store) to go shopping. When my Mother (Jenny Slating) was 18-19 years of age she would take her horse and buggy into Romeo (she lived at 29 Mile Road and Mound), leave her horse and buggy at a stable, and take the car to Detroit. When she finished shopping with her friends, she would return to Romeo, retrieve her horse and buggy and go home.” Norm Ludtke’s (1923-2021) streetcar memories.

OCTOBER 6 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): Folks in Armada and those living on Mound Road in Washington Township would travel to the D. U. R. station in Romeo on West St. Clair Street by horse or carriage. They would get on the streetcar and ride to the Detroit Opera House. The only transportation in the 1900 photo is by horse or carriage. From northern Macomb County the only reasonable option was the streetcar. “My mother and her girlfriends would take the Inter-Urban car to downtown Detroit (I believe Hudson’s Store) to go shopping. When my Mother (Jenny Slating) was 18-19 years of age she would take her horse and buggy into Romeo (she lived at 29 Mile Road and Mound), leave her horse and buggy at a stable, and take the car to Detroit. When she finished shopping with her friends, she would return to Romeo, retrieve her horse and buggy and go home.” Norm Ludtke’s (1923-2021) streetcar memories.

Covering the villages of Armada and Romeo as well as the townships of Addison, Armada, Bruce, Oakland, Ray and Washington

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