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Over the course of the film, Moore attempts to track down Smith at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and the Detroit Athletic Club, only to be told either that Smith is not there or to leave by employees and security guards.
Cadillac and his convoy of 25 canoes sailed down the Detroit River and camped on the shore of Grosse Ile during the evening of July 23, 1701.
* In the film Grosse Pointe Blank, which takes place in the Detroit suburbs of Grosse Pointe, the character Debi Newberry says that her apartment burned down on Devil's Night.
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During this time period Sugar Island, which is one of the twelve islands commonly considered to comprise Grosse Ile, featured an amusement park, dance pavilion and bathing beach.
John Kelsey, founder and president of the Kelsey Wheel Company, was a summer resident of Grosse Ile and one of the key organizers of the Grosse Ile Golf and Country Club which was established in 1919.
The company laid tracks across Grosse Ile and built bridges over the Detroit River that enabled trains to be transferred to a ferryboat on Stony Island ( one of the islands near the east shoreline of Grosse Ile's " main island ").
Grosse Ile is considered to be one of the best locations along the Detroit River to observe commercial shipping and pleasure boat traffic.
In fact, Money magazine named Grosse Ile one of the " Top 100 Best Places to Live " in 2009.
Grosse Ile's community theatre, The Islanders, is Downriver's oldest theatre club and one of the oldest civic theatre groups in the state of Michigan.
Grosse Pointe is one of five similarly named municipalities in northeastern Wayne County, and is often called " The City ," or Grosse Pointe City.
It became heavily populated between 1910 and 1930 as one of Detroit's first commuter suburbs ; in the previous century Grosse Pointe was home to cottages, resorts, farms, and widely spaced lakefront mansions.
* Maire Elementary School ( Cadieux near Kercheval ), the only one of the Grosse Pointe Public Schools within the small city.
* Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church ( Maumee near Neff ), the only church within the one square mile city.
Saint Paul Catholic Church ( Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan ) | Saint Paul on the Lake Catholic Church ( 1899 ) in Grosse Pointe Farms, one of many landmarks along Lakeshore Drive-French Gothic by Harry J. Rill.
Grosse Pointe Park has about of borders with Detroit, with one border between Alter Road and Wayburn to the southwest, and another along Mack Avenue to the northwest ; its third border on land is with the city of Grosse Pointe along Cadieux Road to the northeast.
There are two Grosse Pointe Public School System elementary schools in the Park, Defer and Trombly Schools, in addition to one middle school: Pierce Middle School.
It is the only one of the five Grosse Pointes with no Lake St. Clair shoreline, although the city owns a park in neighboring St. Clair Shores that is on the lake.
Grosse Pointe Woods is one of five Pointes in the Grosse Pointe area adjacent to Detroit.
The bridge is owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel " Matty " Moroun through the Detroit International Bridge Company in the US and the Canadian Transit Company in Canada, and at one time it was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Ford had readied two automobiles for racing, and he asked Oldfield if he would like to test one at Ford's Grosse Pointe track.
Grosse Pointe is one of the most affluent suburban areas in Metro Detroit, sharing a border with northeast Detroit's historic neighborhoods.
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1934 saw the realisation of his film Katharina die Grosse, with his wife playing the main role, although the film was not shown in Germany.
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From here the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn ( below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right ), Aarburg ( where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten, Aarau, near which is the junction with the Suhre, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right.
According to the latest research – for example, by Eduard Jacobs and Walther Grosse – there were no early relations with the Abbey at Corvey ( Weser ) and the abbot there, Warin, instead the town name suggests it was a protected clearance settlement.
* ( 1996 ), In Andrea Barrett's novella Ship Fever the characters struggle with a typhus outbreak at the Canadian Grosse Isle Quarantine Station during 1847.
The city changed its name to " Eastpointe " after the change was approved by residents in a 1992 referendum ; the name change had been proposed to remove any perceived association with the adjacent city of Detroit ; the "- pointe " is intended to associate the city instead with the nearby affluent communities of the Grosse Pointes.
The township of Grosse Ile is actually composed of twelve islands, although the community is most often identified with the main island ( which residents simply refer to as " The Island ").
The original 1894 Grosse Ile lighthouse resembled a water tower on stilts as it was constructed on wooden pilings along with a walkway to shore.
In 1965, the Grosse Ile Township purchased the lighthouse from the U. S. Department of the Interior for $ 350 with funds provided by the Grosse Ile Historical Society ( GIHS ).
Grosse Ile has also been the home of Michiganders with distinguished service in civilian government and the military.
Together with " The Park " and " The Farms ", " the City " comprises part of the southern Pointes, which are older and more densely populated than the northern Pointes ( Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Shores ).
* Mack Avenue business district, along the length of Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe, constituting the border with Detroit.
While Grosse Pointe and Grosse Pointe Park are built on a standard street grid and are basically flat, Grosse Pointe Farms is partially built on the same grid flowing out of Detroit, but also features districts with irregular, curving street paths.
Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake Saint Clair, it is the westernmost of the noted Grosse Pointe suburbs, with the oldest overall housing stock of the five cities.
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Not really startled, but careful to appear so, Grosse sucked noisily on his pipe.
In Tallinn, a coat-of-arms resembling the flag is found on several buildings and can be traced back to the middle of the 15th century where it appears in the coat-of-arms of the " Die Grosse Gilde ", a sort of merchant consortium which greatly influenced the city's development.
Grosse Pointe ( 2000 – 2001 ) on the WB was a self-parody of creator Darren Star's behind-the-scenes experiences of producing nighttime soaps, in particular Beverly Hills, 90210.
* Grosse Sonnenblumen, 1928, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the suicides of five sisters.
Louisiana State Senator Robert M. Marionneaux resides on a cattle farm in Grosse Tete but practices law in Baton Rouge.
The small township consisted of 0. 6 mi² ( 1. 7 km² ) of the Macomb County portion of the village of Grosse Pointe Shores, which was part of Grosse Pointe Township and mostly located in Wayne County on the western shores of Lake Saint Clair.
On February 24, 2009, the residents of the village of Grosse Pointe Shores voted to incorporate as a city, effectively disestablishing Lake and Grosse Pointe townships when the city was formally established on April 1, 2009.
In describing his parish in 1798 he included " Grosse Roche ", referring to a settlement named after the outcropping of limestone rock on the south side of the Huron River.
The township is situated on several islands in the Detroit River, but the largest island is also referred to as simply Grosse Ile.
Grosse Ile is the largest island on the Detroit River.
The bridge on the north end of the island is called the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge ( off-white color ).
Grosse Ile historians consider the beginning of ownership and governance of the community by residents of European heritage to have begun on July 6, 1776, when the Potawatomi Indians deeded the island to prominent Detroit merchants, brothers William and Alexander Macomb.
The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Grosse Ile maintains that Father Hennepin came ashore and said mass at a location on the east shore of the island near the present site of St. Anne's Chapel.
While there apparently is not written proof of this specific event, Father Hennepin did write in his journals about the fruit orchards and wild animals on Grosse Ile, so historians assume that, at the very least, he explored the island first-hand.
During this era and into the early 20th century, a number of wealthy residents from Detroit and other nearby towns built summer homes along the shoreline ( mainly on the southern end ) of Grosse Ile in order to enjoy views of the Detroit River or Lake Erie.
The northernmost of the channel range lights was the Grosse Ile Light, which is presently the only lighthouse remaining on the island.
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