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Detroit is mentioned in two old "film noirs" I've seen recently. One is the 1950 The Damned Don't Cry with Joan Crawford, David Brian and Steve Cochran. Brian and Cochran are gangland crooks and...

The maps should have copyright dates printed on them somewhere, but even if they don't, the maps clearly date from BEFORE 1948 for the following reasons: the numbers that are in circles refer to...

Relax, relax!!! You are forgiven. But for what? I didn't feel "disparaged" by your post. I feel for you. In your case it's a donut addiction--in my case it's pancakes. I haven't had a donut in...

Thank you! I watched those clips several times. I notice that in one clip there's a Quikee delivery truck parked with rear doors open and a sign painted on the side of it says "Three Downtown...

YES!!! And I remember that special shape of the handle too! And I now remember the "Get your daily dozen" slogan--it was on the boxes too. I took it seriously too--I never left downtown on a bus...

That's interesting. What years did you work there? Another thing I remembered after submitting my write up was the "seating" arrangement for customers at the Grand River Quickee. As you entered...

ct alum: You must have enjoyed walking to walk from the Quickee on Grand River all the way to Cass Tech. If it were me I would have gotten a transfer from the driver on the Jefferson bus, picked up...

I doubt it. Donuts are pretty much a thing of the past--fattening, you know. Just my opinion.

It takes time. My daughter and her husband live on Avery in the Woodbridge neighborhood [[around Warren and Trumbull) and they just got their bin a couple of weeks ago--that is early January 2015. I...

I will be 72 years old this summer [[2015). That means that I was 7 years old in the summer of 1950 and 17 in the summer of 1960. During those years my mom took me shopping downtown many times, and...