MAY 15 ISSUE ANSWERS: The Detroit Urban Railway (D.U.R.) streetcars that passed through Romeo between 1898 and 1934 enabled locals to travel for shopping, picnics and Detroit Tiger baseball games. If a large group of Tigers fans wanted to attend the game in Detroit at Briggs Stadium they could call the D.U.R. office to tell them to send a trailer car (nonmotorized) attached to the D.U.R. streetcar going to the ball game in Detroit. The car would then return the group to Romeo after the game. They had to be sure to get on the car after the game, or they might be stranded in Detroit. One group did report having a small unfortunate experience after the game. Of course a day’s shopping trip in Detroit would be enjoyable for many. 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 Hudson’s store or even the Detroit Opera House. The only transportation from northern Macomb County in the 1900s was by horse or carriage. The only other reasonable option was the streetcar. Our friend Norm Ludtke told the following two stories to us. “My mother and her girlfriends would take the Inter-Urban car to downtown Detroit (I believe Hudson’s Store) to go shopping. When