Thursday, January 19, 2023

Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts

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The Rivera Courtyard In 1932, noted Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to pai...
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Friday, January 13, 2023

Connie Kalitta "The Bounty Hunter" vs. Shirley "Cha-Cha" Muldowney

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Baby Boomers who grew up in the Detroit area and listened to Windsor radio station CKLW were familiar with advertisements for the Det...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Delray Lives on in Florida

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Detroit's Village of Delray is all but a memory today, but its namesake Delray Beach is going strong on the east coast of Florida. My wi...
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Saturday, November 26, 2022

One-Million and a Quarter Fornology Pageviews and Counting

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Sue and I at Detroit Bookfest 2022. Come join us next July. After a decade of writing my Fornology blog, I'm going to release my last an...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Eddie Wingate: Black Detroit's Big Daddy

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Eddie Wingate One of the economic Titans in Detroit's African American community of the 1950s through the late 1970s was Eddie Wingate. ...
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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ann Arbor High Graduate Becomes Mr. Las Vegas

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Moe Dalitz in Las Vegas publicity shot. Morris "Moe" Dalitz was born in Boston but his family moved to Detroit where he gre...
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Thursday, September 22, 2022

World Traveler George F. Pierrot

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Detroiters who grew up watching television in the 1950s and 1960s are no doubt familiar with George F. Pierrot, the gravelly-voiced, rotu...
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