Missing the Pointe

Missing the Pointe

Grosse Pointer Tom Nixon is joined by two GP expatriates — longtime Pointers Jim Clor and Roger Fong — to talk about what they miss most about the Pointes. Everything from school activities, recreation, pastimes, culture and nostalgia. We cover everything there is to cover about growing up in Grosse Pointe. Sponsored by the Grosse Pointe Alumni and Friends Association.

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Episoder(38)

Episode 6: The After School Special

Episode 6: The After School Special

Not that attending Grosse Pointe Public Schools wasn't great and all, but sometimes we had more fun AFTER school growing up as kids. After-school TV was a recreational staple of the day, despite the f...

2 Mar 202330min

Episode 5: The Making of GP North, with Curtiss Alden

Episode 5: The Making of GP North, with Curtiss Alden

Curtiss Alden joins the podcast to recall the story as a member of the very first class ever to attend what would become Grosse Pointe North High School. Learn how it all went down, from his departure...

15 Feb 202340min

Episode 4: Gym Class

Episode 4: Gym Class

Why would children be sharing bathing suits with our peers, pandemic or no pandemic?! Jim, Roger and Tom look back at the fond — and sometimes unsettling — memories of their youth: gym class, from ele...

9 Feb 202328min

Episode 3: Everything But Drugs

Episode 3: Everything But Drugs

Remember Bob's Drugs and the Notre Dame pharmacy? Jim, Tom and Roger remember the glory years of the neighborhood drug store, which sold just about everything...and as kids, we'd get everything BUT dr...

10 Jan 202328min

Episode 2: Where to Eat in 1982?

Episode 2: Where to Eat in 1982?

Jim, Tom and Roger hop in a time machine back to the year 1982 to take a tour of Grosse Pointe's "finest" eateries. From Club 500 to the Sveden House, the guys prove once again that they sure know how...

30 Des 202225min

Episode 1: A Trip Down Vernier Lane and the Glory Days of Eastland

Episode 1: A Trip Down Vernier Lane and the Glory Days of Eastland

Jim, Tom and Roger take us back in time to the glory years of the Eastland Mall. The boys run it back to recall their favorite stores, the best parts about the Hudson's anchor department store, and ev...

9 Des 202229min

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