Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Soupy Sales Late Night Detroit Variety Show

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After serving twenty-six months in the United States Navy in World War II--twelve in the Pacific theater--Milton Supman took his G.I. Bill b...
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Saturday, December 9, 2023

West Dearborn's Muirhead's Department Store

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Mrs. Alberta Muirhead If you grew up in Downriver Detroit in the 1950s or 1960s, after the Hudson's Thanksgiving Day parade on Woodward ...
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Friday, November 3, 2023

Eastern Michigan University Student Queried - "Is Paul (McCartney) Dead?"

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The biggest hoax in the history of Rock & Roll is surely the "Is Paul Dead?" controversy. On Sunday afternoon, October 1...
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Friday, October 20, 2023

Detroit's Shock Theater

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In 1957, Universal Pictures syndicated a television package of fifty-two classic horror movies released by Screen Gems called Shock Thea...
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Friday, September 29, 2023

The Women Pioneers of CKLW AM Radio--Jo Jo Shutty and Rosalie Trombley

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When we Detroit Baby Boomers were in our teens, CKLW-AM radio was known as "The Big 8." The station broadcast out of Windsor, Onta...
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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Detroit's Famous Eastern Market

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What was to become known as the Eastern Market began as a hay, lumber, and cordwood market in Detroit at Cadillac Square in 1841. Soon after...
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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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