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I first saw one of Lee Iacocca's achievements before I ever heard of him. Early in 1964 some friends and I were driving along the lake, and as we were passing Henry Ford's place we noticed a very...

Do Detroiters not have a peculiarly perverse genius for making nuisances of themselves? Jailing them just penalizes the taxpayers. Removing them to someplace like Baffin Island or Tierra del Fuego is...

That will happen when Amtrak contracts with the Japan Railways Group to develop an American version of the maglev Chuo Shinkansen. In other words.........

Paul's Pizzeria, on W. Vernor in SW Detroit, opened about 1960 and is still going strong, making dependably tasty round pizzas that never claimed to be Roman or Neopolitan, or even Detroit, style,...

As to the best beverage with pizza, the late columnist Mike Royko had it right when one of his readers, who didn't like any kind of pizza, wrote complaining that her kids' school had served milk and...

There was a time when walking through Highland Park's trove of bungalows seemed almost like a stroll up into the hills of Berkeley.

I haven't listened to him since he became a political pundit with numbingly bad predictions [[I was already tired of him always pushing his books). I actually tried reading one, but his sappy oeuvre...

Carl's was also renowned for its cheescake, but I can't vouch for it. After a Carl's steak, sides and beverages, the only dessert I wanted was a nap.

Why the incremental creep in height? Just make it 1000' or more, and that would put it in a league with some the country's most ambitious projects. Just not one of those skinny NY towers - they look...

The China Doll, on Second Av., just north of the Fisher Bldg., was a Cantonese place in a house that had been converted into a restaurant. Their pressed duck was the best Chinese dish in Detroit, and...

Many of these complaints would never arisen had the line been a subway. In San Francisco the Muni and BART get far more riders downtown than out in the avenues, where the Muni runs at grade level...

Some Macy's employes I know at Somerset were recently discussing what they said were Federated's plans to turn their store into a Bloomingdale's, since the Oakland Macy's is so close, although they...

I guess I'm not allowed to add my pictures contrasting the Kresge Court as it blissfully was with its condition today.

I tried to link my post to two pertinent pictures but is seems impossible to add any pictures to a post on this site, which is rapidly losing its usefulness. Facebook is much easier to use.

I remember the Kresge Court in the mid 60s, when I attended WSU. It was a favorite place for a quiet snack - coffee and one of Ranier Pastry's great little dacquoises - either when reading by myself...

The high quality Hiller's store in Ann Arbor which was bought out by Kroger instantly became the worst Kroger store in the area, not nearly as good as the existing Maple Rd. and Plymouth Rd. stores,...

One of the Farms' more secluded streets seems to be pronounced locally as "Pro-VON-shul". I wouldn't trust any ratatouille or crespeou made there.

This is hardly the most expensive meal to be had in the Detroit area. If they had simply served the assembled contents on a plate with no bun it would resemble a hundred other entrees available and...

BRGR.CO is a chain of fairly stylish burger boites in central London. Would this concept work in Detroit? Some older storefronts here would be easily adaptable but would Detroiters support a couple...

I grew up near Vernor and Springwells and enjoyed the considerable amenities that the neighborhood afforded. The term "walkability" is a buzzword for contemporary urban development but our...

Some well detailed pictures of Detroit's best known Beaux-Arts landmarks [[including McKim, Mead and White's State saving Bank) from Thomas Noble's photostream www.flickr.com/photos/28846807@N05/

The fate of the old Hudson's locations has not been encouraging. One aspect of local retailing which has mystified me is that Macy's has locations at both Somerset and, only a few miles away, at...

Panera's biggest appeal to me has always been that it is not Starbucks. I'd really like to see one of Tom Colicchio's 'wichcraft shops in downtown Detroit but since they just closed their SF shop...

A couple of nights ago I actually dreamt of a scene similar to this on Woodward Av. Maybe I'm just getting a little too caught up in Downtown Detroit's revival, but has anyone else imagined any...

Many people born and raised in the Detroit area have left in search of better opportunities elsewhere and this was not just in the recent decades of Detroit's precipitous decline but began long...