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This is my house and project, and the reason for my handle on this forum.

Sandhouse: The State of Michigan would not allow a DC machine. It's a modern AC motor and controlling apparatus behind the...

In the May 27, 2020 Free Press, there was an ad from the city acknowledging the historic value of the theater and requesting input on alternative plans for it before demolition is approved.

I drove Cadillacs for 29 years, and my XTS was the last straw. While they have been reliable cars, the current generation of sedans rides very hard, almost like a Jeep. I want the cushy land yacht...

Sorry, but that was most likely a scam. The "Flint gas guy" has been using variants of this sob story for years. You'll find him somewhere downtown frequently.

Walked through the Ren Cen today. There were construction signs naming several contractors and temporary drywall around the exterior elevators to the top, so work appears to be starting.

There are two glass elevators and two inside elevators serving the space. The interior elevators were only activated on busy nights. That provided sufficient capacity in the days of the Summit, when...

True. Arriving on several Tuesdays around 8:15 PM over the past several years, despite being advertised as being open till 9:00 PM, they had either already closed or were in the process of closing....

I, too, remember the excellent audio of CKJY. They had a particularly peppy big band playlist, as well...upbeat big band, if you will. I have a recording of the daily strange format switch from big...

My dad and his partner built and owned Cloverlanes and the adjacent Compton Village Motor Inn and Mitch Housey's Restaurant in the early 1960s. They were young developers and were trying to make an...

Never thought this would happen. To be split into three separate hotels, which makes some sense as there are three sections to the property now. And they plan to reopen the Rondeview restaurant at...

The Barclay Inn was flagged as a Holiday Inn Express for a while, I believe in the mid-2000s, before the current one got the franchise. The current one was then known as the Hamilton.

Anna Main owned Big Beaver Airport, on the southwest corner of Big Beaver and John R. It closed in 1997.

Berz Troy Airport survives as Oakland Troy Airport on the southeast corner of Maple and...

There has been a Qwikee Cafeteria in an office building in Troy at 3250 W. Big Beaver for decades. Same outfit?

The Studio 8 was located in the Green 8 Shopping Center across Greenfield Road from Northland Mall. The theater in Birmingham was the Studio 4, across Old Woodward from the Bloomfield Theater. It...

I have spent years searching for a similar elevator installation to Hudson's, around the world, and the only comparable one is right in our back yard, at the Masonic Temple. There are two elevators...

The Ponderosa in Fairlane was on the left side of the lower level as you approached the entrance to Lord & Taylor.

Hungry Penguin was a chain owned by the Burgell family who owned the Susie Q...

Bye bye Ramada, a.k.a. Shiawassee, a.k.a. Sheraton

http://www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/July-August-2013/Ramada-Inn-Southfield-Demolished-Making-Way-for-Future/

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Harrods in London is the closest thing nowadays to the Hudsons experience. The food halls, the endless departments, the restaurants, and yes, virtually the same kind of elevators.