Friday, April 25, 2025

The EDSEL--Car of the Future--Really?

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I grew up in the Dearborn, Michigan--the center of what is commonly known as Ford Country. Most people in the area buy Ford products--un...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

The Mustang Gallops into Automotive History

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New York World's Fair Mustang Introduction. The recession of the late 1950s hit Detroit especially hard. Money was tight and car sales f...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

2023 Radio Hall of Fame Inductee Pat St. John

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Pat St. John at the SXM control panel. In Pat St. John’s senior year at Southfield High School, Pat began broadcasting from WSHJ, their ten...
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Early Detroit Tiger History

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Charlie Bennett   Prior to 1894, the Detroit Tigers played minor league baseball and were one of the founding members of the West League tha...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Little Richard Streicher--Ypsilanti's Depression Era Unsolved Murder

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On the blustery afternoon of March 8, 1935, thirteen-year-old Buck Holt and his eleven-year-old brother Billy followed muskrat tracks i...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ypsilanti's Hutchinson House Built with S&H Green Stamp Fortune

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Hutchinson House In 1896, Thomas A. Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson went into the S&H Green Stamp business together. The New York Ti...
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Thursday, February 6, 2025

S&H Green Stamps--Emblem of a Bygone Age

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Sperry and Hutchinson Company were the originators of S&H Green Stamps--as much an American cultural icon as anything. The company ...
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