Friday, November 22, 2024

Detroit's Greektown Stella - Iconic Homeless Woman Remembered

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Photo taken of Stella Paris by a Detroit Policeman I hadn't seen or heard of Greektown Stella for several decades, then several day...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Victorian Theater and The Limelight

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I n the Victorian period, the expression in the limelight meant the most desirable acting area on the stage, front and center. Today, ...
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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Michigan Homegrown Terrorism of the 1930s--The Black Legion

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I like to think I am well-versed in Michigan and Detroit history, but it wasn't until I recently read Tom Stanton's Terror in the...
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Sunday, October 27, 2024

Ford Tri-Motor Pioneers Commercial Flight

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Restored Ford Tri-Motor In today's jetsetter world, commercial air travel is taken for granted by most people, but in the 1920s the aero...
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Remembering Detroit's Qwikee Donut and Coffee Shops

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A young, optimistic Russian blacksmith named John Weise migrated to Detroit in the late 1920s, just in time for the Great Depression. Its st...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Samuel Zug - The Man Behind the Island

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Samuel Zug Samuel Zug is thought by some people to have been an industrialist, but that couldn't be further from the truth. He wa...
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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Detroit's Speedboat Champion Gar Wood

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Garfield "Gar" Wood One of the least remembered Detroit sports celebrities is speedboat champion Garfield "Gar" Aut...
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