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Long-time lurker, occasional poster. I'm pretty sure I've been around since the early 2000s.To me the interwebs wouldn't be the same without DetroitYes. Kudos to Lowell for birthing and fostering...

http://www.michiganbuildingtrades.org/newspaper/a-thing-of-beauty-trades-renovate-elegant-old-friend-the-stott-tower
This article from a couple of months ago has some insight on the construction of...

"Better Made Yellow"

Cool photo Ray. Those were indeed different times, but if I were a cop today I would certainly want my union to have a shitfit about having my home address published.
As a side note, my dad was a...

Ray, everybody who grew up in Southwest Detroit knew of the police station at Fort and Green. Not so much the Vernor Station. Is that the building that became the Third Precinct?

Thanks for all the memories, Gordie. He was a great hockey player and a great human being.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/hockey-legend-gordie-howe-dies-at-age-88

I like my bike. I ride it on occasion in my subdivision. Sometimes in the street, sometimes I move up onto the sidewalks when a car is coming. I would never ride my bike on a main thoroughfare, with...

In Southwest Detroit in the 1960s and 70s, you didn't have to go much further than Vernor Highway to get any of your shopping done [[food, clothes, shoes, ice cream, prescriptions). We got our first...

I liked the old school marquee. The new one looks pretty good, too.
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I think we could call him a radio legend in Detroit, couldn't we? I never listened to him too much, and I always imagined his show appealed to lonely females, not that there's anything wrong with...

Fantastic! Love it! I hope Gordie will be around to be driven [[or drive!) over it.

A common question is why the side of the building facing Campus Martius is nothing but a giant brick wall for 35 stories. The answer lies in its fallen former neighbor, the Cadillac Square Building,...

Here's a feature from five years ago about work on the Cadillac Tower's spires. It's kind of nice that the owner didn't ignore or tear out the ornamentation up there, when it would have been easy to...

Thanks very much Southen.

Here is Campus Martius in 1910, photo from the Library of Congress and I think Shorpy featured it. Can anyone help ID the building the background with the arrow pointing to it? Thank you.
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Sparky is in the MLB Hall of Fame.

You're not even close, Ronald. I'm well under 100 but every one has been a quality post.:)

The sirens were wailing at 1 p.m. on Saturday in Livonia. My wife always maintains that the first Saturday of the month would be the perfect time to attack us via an air raid; we'd think it was only...

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Wendell and Vernor

Still there. Wendell has two Ls. It's about 4 blocks from Springwells and Vernor.

Somebody back me up on this. Doesn't it seem like the great majority of major snow events around here over the past few decades have taken place on Sundays?

Exactly. ^^^
I thought the article was more interesting for the inner workings of the Quicken PR staff than for the financial stuff, which really didn't have much there there.

Damn good pizza, although the price for two slices after yesterday's visit, including the ticket, was $49.

Lunchtime today, parked my car on Beaubien Street under the People Mover. Niki's took an extra couple of minutes bringing my carryout pizza. Return to my car, little white meter maid car driving...

The steel frame is complete. The iron workers "topped out" the structure last Friday, which refers to the placement of the last iron section, which in this case, oddly enough, was a prefabricated...