Definitely Downriver: Ray Knox, Lincoln park
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Ray Knox On porch in chair is GG Mother Philomine Goodell. It's her daughters, Mary Quandts house. Single girl on step is my G Aunt Rene, aka Philomine Noreen Theeck (Mullen). And woman is a bar maid that worked for Mary and Herman Quandt. Can not remember what her name was. Been a long time since I was told the details of the picture.
Ray Knox PS the other two children that are close together lived on the same street. But my Aunt Rend was not able to remember their names. She went home to be with our Lord in the 90s.
A Lincoln Park Memory from Ray Knox
When I was a youngster, there was a metal rail that crossed Lincoln Street in Lincoln Park, parallel to where the high tension electric lines cut through the residential area. Starting at Shaffer road in Detroit there was a one way street on both sides of the high tension cables, named Electric Ave. Electric Ave. cuts in and out at points and terminates after a bridge overpass at Eureka Road in Wyandotte. I must have rode my bicycle over that rail a thousand times or more.
One day I was at my great grandparents house, 1749 Coolidge Hwy., and mentioned it. My great grandmother (Ann Philomine (Goodell) Theeck, that we affectionally called Mim or Mimmi, said, "that was where the trolley went through at one time."
My grandfather (Charles Cleophus Eldridge Theeck) aka Grandpa, prompted Mim to tell me the story of the hand trolley. So here is the story as I recall it. Of course it was retold to me many more times and Mim and Gramps always chuckled as they told it.
When my great grandfather (Charles Frederick Theeck) aka Gramps, was courting Mim, he would take the trolley back and forth from the Joacihm Theeck homestead-farm in what is today River Rouge to the Goodell homestead-farm in what is now Lincoln Park. They were married in 1906.
One time they missed the trolley and Gramps knew he would be in hot water if Mim was not home before dark. They spotted a handcar and went to work using it to travel back to The Goodell homestead. They were doing real good and almost there when they spotted a trolley coming there way on the same track. They tried to stay ahead of it by pumping the thing faster, but they kept loosing ground. They ended up jumping off the moving handcar and running away as fast as they could. They never looked back to see what happened and kept the escapade a secret until decades later. Mim did make it back in time and they eventually married.
On a side note. Mim was the youngest in the family and there was a barn that was remodeled into a house for her to live in once she married. However, she moved to the Theeck homestead-farm in River Rouge. The house she was expected to live in on the Goodell homestead-farm is located at 2027 Electric Ave. Lincoln Park. She never moved into it.
Mary O. Quandt Funeral
Courtesy of Ray Knox
The Lincoln Park News
Thursday, April 17, 1941
The picture caption states, “Funeral services were held yesterday from St. Henry’s church, in Lincoln Park, for Mary O. Quandt, pioneer resident of the city, who died at her home, 2119 Fort Park Boulevard, Saturday. Shown here is the funeral procession leaving the church, with six nephews of Mrs. Quant as pallbearers, Irvin, C James and Roy Goodell, Kenneth and Eldridge Theeck and Tom Peltola. Leading the march is Charles Nixon, funeral director.
Services Held for Lincoln Park Pioneer
Funeral Held for Pioneer
Hundreds Attend Last Rites for Old Resident of City
Lincoln Park buried one of its pioneers yesterday—one who not only saw the city grow up from farm land and swamp—but one who took an active part in the development of the city that, in the short space of 20 years, grew from a small village of 600 population to a city of more than 15,000.
Vital statistics will record this death of Mrs. Mary O. Quandt, 2119 Fort Park Avenue, 68 years old, but to old residents of Lincoln Park, the funeral was held for ol’ lady Quandt, for these residents truly knew her as the mother of the city.
All the respects due one who helped build a city were accorded Mrs. Quandt since her death Saturday morning—the city’s two flags have been at half staff, the mayor and council passed a resolution of respect, and, above all, the city’s populace turned out to attend her funeral at St. Henry’s church.
Mrs. Quandt was born on a farm cornered on what is now Fort Street and Southfield road, the Daughter of Cleophus and Philomine Goodell, early pioneers of the section that today is Lincoln Park. Her grandfather had bought this land from an Indian long before the French settlers of River Rouge divided the land into “quarters” and long before these same Frenchmen had made peace with the Indians by intermarriage.
Mrs. Quandt who died suddenly in the homestead which stands on the site of the original Goodell farm, will long be remembered as the pioneer of Lincoln Park because of her active part in the city’s growth.
Long before Lincoln Park became the thriving city which it is today, the Quandt’s operated a tavern hotel and community center at the head of Fort Street, at the present Southfield Road. It was known as “Quandt’s Hotel” because no name appeared over the door of the establishment.
In 1917, before Fort Street became a thoroughfare, the Quandt’s erected a garage next to the “hotel” said to be one of the first modern garages in Wayne county. A blacksmith shop had already been established in the block and later a grocery store was erected to complete the “cross roads” picture.
The foresight of Mrs. Quandt can best be recalled in the fact that she was one of the few who advocated incorporation of the village of Lincoln Park. She took an active part in the campaign which saw the establishment of the village in 1921, with a population of 600, and later advocated the incorporation of the city in 1925.
Several buildings in Lincoln Park still remain as monuments to Mrs. Quandt’s pioneering. The city’s library building is formerly the Quandt’s hotel, with added coat of brick veneer. This building, once at the head of Fort Street, was later moved to a site now occupied by the Lincoln Rink, and now located on Fort Street just south of Southfield Road. The last building erected by Mrs. Quandt is the Lincoln Bar and Restaurant, on Fort street at Southfield Road, the construction Quant’s personal supervision.
Services were held yesterday morning with the Rev. Fr. William J. O’Rourke officiating at his last funeral service as pastor of St. Henry’s church. Thursday morning Fr. O’Rourke took up his new duties as pastor of St. Bernard’s church, in Detroit. Burial was in Woodmere Cemetery.
Surviving are four children, Mrs Edna Wilber, Mrs. Frances James, Mrs. Ethel Barko, and Herbert Quandt; a sister, Mrs. Anne Theeck, of River Rouge; three brothers, James I. Goodell, of Monroe; Mark, of Detroit, and Thomas of Lincoln Park, and five grand children.
Ray Knox On porch in chair is GG Mother Philomine Goodell. It's her daughters, Mary Quandts house. Single girl on step is my G Aunt Rene, aka Philomine Noreen Theeck (Mullen). And woman is a bar maid that worked for Mary and Herman Quandt. Can not remember what her name was. Been a long time since I was told the details of the picture.
Ray Knox PS the other two children that are close together lived on the same street. But my Aunt Rend was not able to remember their names. She went home to be with our Lord in the 90s.
A Lincoln Park Memory from Ray Knox
When I was a youngster, there was a metal rail that crossed Lincoln Street in Lincoln Park, parallel to where the high tension electric lines cut through the residential area. Starting at Shaffer road in Detroit there was a one way street on both sides of the high tension cables, named Electric Ave. Electric Ave. cuts in and out at points and terminates after a bridge overpass at Eureka Road in Wyandotte. I must have rode my bicycle over that rail a thousand times or more.
One day I was at my great grandparents house, 1749 Coolidge Hwy., and mentioned it. My great grandmother (Ann Philomine (Goodell) Theeck, that we affectionally called Mim or Mimmi, said, "that was where the trolley went through at one time."
My grandfather (Charles Cleophus Eldridge Theeck) aka Grandpa, prompted Mim to tell me the story of the hand trolley. So here is the story as I recall it. Of course it was retold to me many more times and Mim and Gramps always chuckled as they told it.
When my great grandfather (Charles Frederick Theeck) aka Gramps, was courting Mim, he would take the trolley back and forth from the Joacihm Theeck homestead-farm in what is today River Rouge to the Goodell homestead-farm in what is now Lincoln Park. They were married in 1906.
One time they missed the trolley and Gramps knew he would be in hot water if Mim was not home before dark. They spotted a handcar and went to work using it to travel back to The Goodell homestead. They were doing real good and almost there when they spotted a trolley coming there way on the same track. They tried to stay ahead of it by pumping the thing faster, but they kept loosing ground. They ended up jumping off the moving handcar and running away as fast as they could. They never looked back to see what happened and kept the escapade a secret until decades later. Mim did make it back in time and they eventually married.
On a side note. Mim was the youngest in the family and there was a barn that was remodeled into a house for her to live in once she married. However, she moved to the Theeck homestead-farm in River Rouge. The house she was expected to live in on the Goodell homestead-farm is located at 2027 Electric Ave. Lincoln Park. She never moved into it.
Mary O. Quandt Funeral
Courtesy of Ray Knox
The Lincoln Park News
Thursday, April 17, 1941
The picture caption states, “Funeral services were held yesterday from St. Henry’s church, in Lincoln Park, for Mary O. Quandt, pioneer resident of the city, who died at her home, 2119 Fort Park Boulevard, Saturday. Shown here is the funeral procession leaving the church, with six nephews of Mrs. Quant as pallbearers, Irvin, C James and Roy Goodell, Kenneth and Eldridge Theeck and Tom Peltola. Leading the march is Charles Nixon, funeral director.
Services Held for Lincoln Park Pioneer
Funeral Held for Pioneer
Hundreds Attend Last Rites for Old Resident of City
Lincoln Park buried one of its pioneers yesterday—one who not only saw the city grow up from farm land and swamp—but one who took an active part in the development of the city that, in the short space of 20 years, grew from a small village of 600 population to a city of more than 15,000.
Vital statistics will record this death of Mrs. Mary O. Quandt, 2119 Fort Park Avenue, 68 years old, but to old residents of Lincoln Park, the funeral was held for ol’ lady Quandt, for these residents truly knew her as the mother of the city.
All the respects due one who helped build a city were accorded Mrs. Quandt since her death Saturday morning—the city’s two flags have been at half staff, the mayor and council passed a resolution of respect, and, above all, the city’s populace turned out to attend her funeral at St. Henry’s church.
Mrs. Quandt was born on a farm cornered on what is now Fort Street and Southfield road, the Daughter of Cleophus and Philomine Goodell, early pioneers of the section that today is Lincoln Park. Her grandfather had bought this land from an Indian long before the French settlers of River Rouge divided the land into “quarters” and long before these same Frenchmen had made peace with the Indians by intermarriage.
Mrs. Quandt who died suddenly in the homestead which stands on the site of the original Goodell farm, will long be remembered as the pioneer of Lincoln Park because of her active part in the city’s growth.
Long before Lincoln Park became the thriving city which it is today, the Quandt’s operated a tavern hotel and community center at the head of Fort Street, at the present Southfield Road. It was known as “Quandt’s Hotel” because no name appeared over the door of the establishment.
In 1917, before Fort Street became a thoroughfare, the Quandt’s erected a garage next to the “hotel” said to be one of the first modern garages in Wayne county. A blacksmith shop had already been established in the block and later a grocery store was erected to complete the “cross roads” picture.
The foresight of Mrs. Quandt can best be recalled in the fact that she was one of the few who advocated incorporation of the village of Lincoln Park. She took an active part in the campaign which saw the establishment of the village in 1921, with a population of 600, and later advocated the incorporation of the city in 1925.
Several buildings in Lincoln Park still remain as monuments to Mrs. Quandt’s pioneering. The city’s library building is formerly the Quandt’s hotel, with added coat of brick veneer. This building, once at the head of Fort Street, was later moved to a site now occupied by the Lincoln Rink, and now located on Fort Street just south of Southfield Road. The last building erected by Mrs. Quandt is the Lincoln Bar and Restaurant, on Fort street at Southfield Road, the construction Quant’s personal supervision.
Services were held yesterday morning with the Rev. Fr. William J. O’Rourke officiating at his last funeral service as pastor of St. Henry’s church. Thursday morning Fr. O’Rourke took up his new duties as pastor of St. Bernard’s church, in Detroit. Burial was in Woodmere Cemetery.
Surviving are four children, Mrs Edna Wilber, Mrs. Frances James, Mrs. Ethel Barko, and Herbert Quandt; a sister, Mrs. Anne Theeck, of River Rouge; three brothers, James I. Goodell, of Monroe; Mark, of Detroit, and Thomas of Lincoln Park, and five grand children.