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My family's history with the Detroit Boat Club probably dates-back to the 1930s or 1940s at the latest. My grandfather was a Commodore (basically the elected president of the club) at some point in time, probably 1960s, and my dad did his first swimming, sailing, etc. there as a kid in the 1940s & 1950s just as I did in the 1960s & 1970s. As a kid there, once we (my brother & my cousins) were done swimming, eating, napping, etc. we'd explore the entire place, as the adults would do boring, adult stuff like sit around & talk. My family lived overseas for most of the 1970s but would come back to Michigan each Summer, and usually hit DBC once or twice. Alas, by my teenage years in the 1980s, I wasn't as interested in doing 'family stuff,' so my visits to DBC plummeted, and the grandfather who was the family 'anchor' that we'd go to DBC with went to a nursing-home in 1990. I think by the late 1980s, certainly the early 1990s, the DBC was suffering from low-membership (old-timers were dying-off, younger potential members preferred less stuffy boating clubs at more convenient/safer locations) and the DBC ultimately closed due to financial issues in the mid-1990s. When the DBC died, I was 30 years old and busy with a fun life -- the closure didn't really bother me as it'd probably been 8 years since I was last there. But then in 1997 I actually moved to downtown Detroit and would occasionally make the brief trip to Belle Isle just to drive around. Seeing the DBC start to decay bothered me. Now, as I become an 'old man,' I'm overly sentimental and nostalgic of my youthful memories and thought of DBC, or especially coming-across the few, ancient family photos of time there, tears me up. If this sounds silly & you can't relate now, that's OK -- eventually you will. To most UE'rs, the DBC is a cool abandoned place to explore, but for me, I don't see the bare rooms & walls, I see the memories of a wonderful, active place full of my relatives and many prominent Detroit area families having fun.
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Baby Hooligan at DBC (August 1966)
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Easter Brunch at Detroit Boat Club Dining Room in 1971
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Hooligan & little brother on Santa's lap -- DBC Christmas Party, 1969
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