triv·i·a [triv-ee-uh]
plural noun
matters or things that are very unimportant,
inconsequential, or nonessential; trifles;
trivialities.
trivialities.
If you have read Thomas Williamson’s history booklet of The
Detroit Curling Club you know that in the early 1900s The Club was located at
Forest & Fourth Avenues in Detroit.
In 1906 the old original building was replaced by “substantial and
commodious quarters”.
Recently, we found a copy of The American Architect and
Building News dated June 30, 1906. There
was a short article:
“Detroit, Mich. – Architects Grylls & Gies, 520 Wayne
County Savings Bank (Bldg), have prepared plans and are ready to take figures
for a club-house for the Detroit Curling Club, B.F. Guiney, secretary, 230
Jefferson Ave.: to be a 2-story, 97 x
101 ft., of frame and brick, composition roof.”
Then we discovered a copy of The Plumbers Trade Journal
dated July 1, 1906:
“J.W. Partln, 56 E. Congress St., has secured the plumbing
contract for the new Detroit Curling Club…”
(Did he supply the
original classic wooden toilet seats?
The same seats gone missing during the move from Detroit to West
Bloomfield – rumored to have been taken to Windsor, but that’s another story.)
I wonder what happened to Grylls & Gies and if the
original plans still exist somewhere in a file cabinet.
We are not sure how to use this information in an
after-curling bar bet. We are confident
that someone in The Club will figure out a way to use this trivia.
Lang may yur lum reek.
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