Sunday, June 11, 2023

George "The Animal" Steele in His Own Words

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George "The Animal" Steele and his favorite snack. William James Myers was raised a happy child in Madison Heights, Michigan until...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

High Flying in Detroit with Leaping Larry Chene

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Arguably the most popular wrestler in the Detroit, Michigan area in the early 1960s was Leaping Larry Chene--born Arthur Lawrence Beauchene ...
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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Detroit Tobacco Industry Once Known as the Tampa of the North

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The following is a guest post researched and written by Mark Lawrence Gade, a Michigan State University graduate and Detroit his...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Remembering My Kid Brother--Rick J. Fournier

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Rick's graduation photo--1968 People in Allen Park, Michigan have asked me about my brother Rick. We grew up in Dearborn Township i...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Michigan Time Capsule Book Cover Reveal

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Michigan Time Capsule (2023) is a collection of sixty-two of my best Fornology.com posts written between 2012 and 2022 culled from over 520...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Detroit History Under Marsha Music’s Watchful Eyes

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Marsha Battle Philpot [aka Marsha Music] is a familiar Detroit figure and longtime booster of the city who describes herself as "a ...
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Monday, February 13, 2023

Before Berry Gordy There Was Joe Von Battle Producing Records in Detroit

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Joe Von Battle in his Hastings Street record shop J oe Von Battle was born in 1915 in Macon, Georgia and moved during the Great Migration wi...