NO, I've been doing it for a while, but I'm stalled at my Great Grandparents. :(
I don't go downriver very often. I live by New Baltimore (30 miles north-northeast of Hamtramck), but work in Hamtramck. What is "Polonis?" There is "Polonia" restaurant in Hamtramck, as well as Polish Village (my favorite), and Pod Orlem (Under the Eagle).
88th Avenue is a Polish Dance Club in Hamtramck. Most of the people who go there are from Poland, and are native Polish speakers.
What is "Polonis?" restaurant <~good food too!!! :)
What are your great Grandparents names? what area did they live? mine were delray, and wyandotte. they came from Nowogrod, and Osiek, Polanka , and Kolno.
New Baltimore is nice, lots of country :)
if it is lomza area they have that microfilmed. southern poland isnt yet that I know of.
no just polish peopld that speak and eat not immigrants like their children to and everyone... sorry if i messed up that but ya... well that's cool i never new that that there were still alot of polsih people there...!!
It's sort of offensive to deny descendants of immigrants their Polish-ness. They're still Polish, they've just been living in Polonia-Hamtramck, Polonia-Chicago, or somewhere else.
Often immigrants didn't teach their children to speak Polish because they didn't want them to "stick out" in a crowd. They wanted them to have the same opportunity as everyone else in the States.
One of our neighbors says that Polish is the "Language of Problems" because when she was growing up, the adults would speak it when they had serious matters to discuss.
Back when my great-grandfather came to the US he changed his name because of anti-pole discrimination. So his generation paved the way for Poles to immigrate and NOT change their names. It still bums me out to think of the discrimination he faced.
This conversation sheds some light on why the tellers at the Polish Credit Union don't believe that I'm Polish and give me static when I go inside. Except the older people that work there know better.
well i polish people in general as in everyone that is what i ment... really that sucks... i never had that kind of problem with the polish banks i mean they all know me because i get involved in church and singing and volunteering and stuff!! Although they shouldn't automatically assume that your not polish... My parent's taught me polish since i was a little baby all my friends know polish and we talk in polish in crowds and eveyrone gets so mad... but we don't care... like i'm first generation here... with my brother...!! which generation are you?
He changed his name from (probably) Franciszek Wisniewski to Frank Cherry. He was a cabinet/furniture maker and worked in machine shops in Chicago then Detroit. My grandfather (Royal Cherry) worked for the Auto companies in Lansing, MI where I was born.
The tellers at the bank ought to know I'm polish by my big Polack head. :)
lmao wow... that's so common... lol ya i have friends who are polish and they have huge heads but that's not a big deal ... at polish guys are smart well most of them but ur probably smart..... cool my last name is spanish... meaning black walnut and in polish meaning leg = Nogal
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I live in Hamtramck. As DrCherry says, there are lots of new Polish immigrants here. You can still shop in Polish stores, party at Polish nightclubs (and go to Polish Mass the next day), and hear Polish spoken on the street. Detroit's Polish/English-language newspaper is based in Hamtramck, as is the Polish American Congress--Michigan Division and the Piast Institute. And I'm always happy to give the Polish Hamtramck tour if you're visiting.
You know I have a question. I intend to study in Detroit (WSU- it is the cheapest of good schools) as I have lived there from August 2005 to July 2006, and I felt in love with the city. The problem is I do not have enough money to study there. I wonder if you know any possibility of very cheap housing, or somebody that needs a house help (taking care of children, some work in the garden, preparing a meal from time to time a meal, of course as a student I would not be available all the time) for allowing me to live with her/his family. Or maybe somebody that would help poor Polish student with any hepl (I do not mean money).
If any of you can help me, or now somebody that would help me please let me know!
Otherwise I will be forced to abandon an idea of studing in my favorite city where great people live, at least as far as I know :).
