Sunday, August 31, 2025

Labor strife--Walter P. Reuther Assassination Attempt Foiled

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Walter P. Reuther, recently re-elected to a second term as United Automobile Workers (UAW) president, lived with his wife May and their ...
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Monday, August 25, 2025

Diana Lewis--WXYZ-TV's Grande Dame of Detroit Nightly News

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Diana Lewis Thirty-four-year-old Diana Lewis burst onto the local Detroit television news scene when she was chosen to co-anchor the 5:30 pm...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Detroit's Ghost Town Delray and O-So Memories

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O-So pop was a local Detroit soft drink sensation bottled in Delray at 8559-61 W. Jefferson Ave. Not as famous as Vernor's Ginger Al...
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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Rita Bell's Prize Movie

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One ot the most beloved ladies in Detroit television history was Rita Bell Connolly, a graduate of Marygrove College with a business degree ...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Detroit's Nineteenth-Century Moonlight Towers

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Newport, Rhode Island introduced the first gas street-lighting in America in 1803. Throughout the nineteenth-century, it was the preferre...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Antoine Cadillac--Detroit's First Godfather

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Bust of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac An expedition financed by the French monarch--King Louis XIV--and promoted by his Minister of ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Something Fishy About "The Spirit of Detroit"

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Photo courtesy of Chris Ahern Photography LLC The Spirit of Detroit statue has graced the site of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (or...
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