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Local author and investigative journalist. Carol Teegardin will be at Eastern Market today until 4 this afternoon signing copies of her book Srawberry 'How An Exotic Dancer Toppled Detroits Hip-Hop...

Gannon there was a gangster from New York that collected rare books and reinvented himself as an intellectual of sorts, Charles 'the Professor' Auerbach was an armaments dealer that supplied the...

I know whom you are writing about the website is www.spangling.com

There seems to be a large scale invasion of down and outs that work 8 mile and I-75 and the Woodward 8 mile interchange and wander and panhandle north and south of 8 mile on Woodward.Shiftless and...

Where were the redlight districts and brothels would be interesting to know for Detroit history? I think it was Brush back in sixties and parts of Woodward near downtown....there was the sassy cat...

I made a hasty decision and went into that ghetto place,a creature that may have been a tran sexual jumped on me and started pawing and clawing and trying to lick on my ear I shoved her off and got...

I have been interested in gangland dramas from the gangster era of the twenties and beyond since my ex turned me on to the microfilm room at the DPL and I scrolled onto black and white typo stories...

George Keywell, Phil and Harrys younger brother became a judge , changed his last name to Kent and presided over a Detroit courtroom.

The Keywells father owned a scrap metal business on24th st. and Barney Keywell was a distant relative of Phil and Harry

Read' White Girl Bleed A Lot' and Dont Make The Black Kids Angry' By Colin Flaherty, an investigative journalist whom helped free a black man wrongly convicted of killing a white woman.

There are couples that stay together and take responsibility without marriage...but yeah the Detroit pubic school system and urban society is extremely dysfunctional

Oquins!!!!!!!!

Delicious well prepared hot foods and salads as long as you don't buy it an hour before closing time....baked macaroni, organic barbecue chicken, black eyed peas and cornbread....a variety of pizza...

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There were 2 small pockets of Jewish communities in Southwest Detroit. One along Michigan and Junction St. Commercial District. The other along W. Jefferson from Dragoon St....

Ill have to get the names of the pastries next time..had one that looked like a deep dish pie with raisins...yeah they are yummy..a cup of coffee to wash them down and zoom!

They do have gluten free tortilla shells...lol....If you eat healthy or are on a diet and feel like something decadent this is the place to go lol

Salsa rojo is made fresh there I think Ill have to try the store made chips next time Jcole...

Wasn't Hastings street where 75 now sits? I think at the time the school was built the Jewish community was moving north of Henrie into the Oakland Ave and 12th st areas...there was a Jewish...

The store is farther east of Martin closer to Corktown.

These films are real gems for Detroit history pundits and afficianados! Thanks for the clips.Lichfield rd looked like a working class area..I know the 1940 clip didn't represent the lives of all...

A cook prepared poyo on large grill at the entrance of this store which has a huge, neatly painted mural on its exterior.The painting is not tacky like the ones on some of the party stores and...

I think the area should have been left alone in its natural state with the brush and other foliage.....in the first pic the area surrounding the street gave it a country look..like in the 14 and...

There are a few carriage houses still standing. One was remodeled into an upper and lower apt. behind a house in the Boston Edison district.

Any Dysers shop at Joes Records on 12th street?

Oakland Sugar House on the corner of Oakland and Holbrook when it was ran by Sugar House gangsters Henry Shorr and Charles Leiter.