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Is there a list anywhere of the women who were named as Miss Downtown Detroit Days back in the 60s?

This change has me scratching my head. Because I'm a car nut I'd love to see something like Goodwood here in Detroit. But that's not something that many people who attend the auto show as prospective...

I've always thought it was Opening Day 1962 when Frank Lary ruined his arm by pitching in cold weather but memory being what it is I could be off by a year.

I'm sure many houses could be demolished for $3 million.But that money is in the school system's funds,not the city's funds.If that money was diverted to the city there would be a MUCH louder wail...

Aw gee,if the city had been on the ball sooner it could have used the LaFayette Building for the new police headquarters.
With the over capacity of hotel rooms downtown right now why would 1300...

Forgive my rambling[[these ideas are just popping into my head as I type this) but here goes-
While green belts would be nice wouldn't they be counterproductive in that the city would have to...

Finney was an elementary school at it's current location from the late1920s until it became a high school.

I can remember back in the 60s when one of those beautiful mansions on the Boulevard was going to be torn down to make way for a nursing home.It was down the alley 3-4 houses from my grandparent's...

My question was misunderstood.I meant that I've seen pictures with amusement parks on both sides of the Belle Isle Bridge on the mainland side.
kellyroad,what was your aunt's address on Field?My...

I've seen photos with an amusement park on either side of the Belle Isle Bridge in various years.Were both parks "Electric Park" or was there another name for one of the parks?

My buddy has a sister who moved to Mississippi several years ago.She was back here on a visit a few years ago and I complimented on the subtle Southern accent[[more of a lilt,really) her voice had...

My Mom ran the personnell records office for the Detroit school system for several years.One of her staff knew Coleman Young well and said that while he was educated and usually spoke very well,on...

Your suggestion rekindled a crazy idea I had a while back.That was to have a later 20th century version of Greenfield Village.But I realized that space would be a problem.There just aren't that many...

Yes,I remember getting in free with a model car.My buddy and I did that for a few years.We'd enter the contest on Saturday,see half the show,then come back on Sunday and see the rest of the show.

I'll be there Saturday and Sunday.When I'm not viewing the exhibits I'll be in the model car contest booth.

The Buick dealer in Dearborn was P.L. Grissom.

When I was young[[back in the previous century),the area at the bottom of Balduck Hill used to be flooded in winter to ice over.That made the ride a REAL adventure when the sled got down there as the...

A few years ago I was pleasantly surprised by the Fuddrucker's on Main in Royal Oak.I had been wary of going there[[having had bad luck with the one in Sterling Heights and one in Hershey,Pa. in past...

You have to decide for yourself the type of area you'd in which you'd like to reside.The suburbs are fine-don't listen to the naysayers who think all suburbs are boring.[[Besides-we have...

I went last Sunday,was at the show 9 hours.I enjoyed it like I always do-my 41st year in a row of going to the auto show.Yup,I'm a car nut-big time.

Thanks,rider,for the memory jog about Downing's.Blaine's is where Louie's Corned Beef is now[[if my sieve-like memory is working correctly).
Earl's Bike shop is where I got my 5 speed SchwinnStingray...

Little Italy-8 Mile Road just west of Kelly-the best take out pizza,bar none!
I'll second the shout out of Loui's for a good sit down pizza.BTW,it's on 9 1/2 and Dequindre,not John R.

My Mom has told me that the basement there used to flood regularly.Many records were stored down there and many were lost.In later years[[after my Mom retired) many of the surviving records were just...

Our next door neighbor to the south had hedges on his property and if the sweeper came southbound and the brush was pointing the wrong way the snow would pile up on our driveway and sidewalk instead...

The European jeweler Bulgari uses the the "V" in place of the "U" in their name in their advertising.