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Amazing work! You may want to add Solid Rock, Compose, and Revival, Felton Williams' labels which operated out of his basement in Ecorse, documented on the Downriver Revival CD set that came out a...

http://blog.resourcegeneration.org/2010/07/06/introducing-spaulding-court/

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I'm referring to specific neighborhoods, like Palmer Woods and the University District. I know much of if not most of NW Detroit is working class.

I just knew a bunch of people in the 80s and...

In addition to these categories, there's one more I've run into occasionally over the years: middle-class and up Detroiters who are insecure about their street cred and overcompensate. They tend to...

I always say I'm from Downriver Detroit, the Detroit area, or SE Michigan. It's tiresome to have someone get all pious and give you the "but you're not REALLY from Detroit" speech, so I just nip it...

The Temptations.

It was slumming for him. I like downriver. I live here. :)

I'm more annoyed by his "straight out the trailer" shtick than his mediocre music or Detroit repping, considering his dad was a big car dealer, but whatever. Pop music is full of fake proles. I...

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Does the Delray Cafe have good food?

I'd love to hear about another Hungarian place too. There's the Rhapsody, the El Dorado, the Cultural Center, and the Strudel Shop in Allen Park. That's about it for Hungarian, as far as I know.

I came here just to sing the praises of the Kow Kow's almond chicken. Never had any like it anywhere else, and I miss it so much.

I'd like to figure out how to make that sauce. I'm guessing they...

This is an interesting Metro Times article that is mostly about the 1943 riot, but it discusses the differences between 1943 and 1967:

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5041

The internet is a series of tubes. Everybody knows that.

I highly recommend it. The poor white family in the book lives in southwest Detroit, first on Twentieth Street and later on Labrosse. The character of Jules lives around Warren and Woodward and...

I recently read Them by Joyce Carol Oates. The riot scene, which is set where you were, was my favorite part of the book. I'm interested in what those who were there think of her version of sixties...

I second Savoyard. Sober up, troll.

Cool, I have to check that place out. It's only a few miles from my house.

So you think Giant System is better than the Carter's on Southfield?

Anyone been to Joe's Hamburgers in Wyandotte?

Hey, I'm white and I rode the Dexter bus on a regular basis in the 80s and survived. Do I get a book deal now?

Jim Fresard:

"Give our regards to Jim Fresard, Main Street is the place to go
tell all the folk in Royal Oak we'll follow those who know..."

Can't remember the middle part.

"Jim Fresard is...

"Here, dawg, come on, dawg...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9RboHHFn34

"I went to her apartment, and the roaches...they was everywhere!"

"You down! You down!"
"Yeah, I wish my sleeves was down!"

Also, remember the carpet salesman Bill Kennedy used to have on? I...

Wow, I've heard some people bitch about non-issues, but that really takes the cake. The Oregon deposit is only 5 cents. LOL at this guy developing a bleeding ulcer over $1.20 a case.

On my way to work in Rivertown I used to love picking up a slice at that one pizza place on Jefferson. What was it called?

Looking at the diagram of places left down there on the detnews.com site, it looks like there isn't much of a reason to go down there at all now.

On second thought I see the Golden Fleece is still...

There's a feature on Red's Park-Inn in the Metro Times this week:

http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=15003