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I moved into Rosedale Park in 1978, and I was surprised to see a knife sharpener pushing a small cart with a grinding wheel down the street ringing a bell. I saw him maybe three times over the first...

I have asked myself the same question. Here are a couple of ideas:

1. Lots of people are living in their brother-in-law's basement. I mean a LOT. I wouldn't even be surprised to find out that the...

The bottle return has an outside entrance. Also, the Redford store has the grocery department in the center of the store with the general merchandise on either end. When you enter the single set of...

Here's one from before freeways. There were some pretty overcrowded and run-down blocks in this view, and lots of injustice, but it was an intact city.
http://www.63alfred.com/1949web.jpg

Knudsen's Danish Bakery on McNichols just west of Southfield for old-style pastries.

Nope, not scrappers. The Livernois area she was looking at is not anywhere near Livernois/Grand River. It is miles north of there, between 7 Mile and 8 Mile. Those areas are nothing alike. The...

Those maps are amazing. There are certainly broad trends and larger forces at play. The Brightmoor tract is really interesting. There is a big jump in the number of degrees, although still far lower...

Iverson's also has a place on Michigan Ave in West Dearborn, in a strip across the street from the church at Military. It is next to Biggby Coffee, I think. They only sell pastries at that location....

That is definitely a barn with a hayloft door. I bet it was a hay and feed business originally. There were plenty of businesses like that around town to supply all of the horses. I was just at the...

The old 8th precinct building was just demolished-- they are probably finishing up the cleanup of the site now. It is on the triangle between GR and McNichols on the east side of the intersection....

It looks like Park View Street was also added to the change to Amity Street.

Those boundary sequences certainly show that Vincennes was probably today's Amity Street. Great digging. Trying to sort out old historical records like this makes for a great mystery puzzle, and the...

OK... I was doing some family history research for my wife's family. Her great-grandfather was a member of the Amity Temple IOOF for 40 years. In the 1920-21 Polk's Detroit City Directory, they give...

In Detroit, the property owner or resident has 24 hours to remove the snow or ice, or apply salt, sand, or some other "approved" material.

https://www.detroitmi.gov/?TabId=2725

Cliffy and downtownguy-
It is nice to learn that you both are home roasters. I roast with a Nesco, started with a popper, and I buy my beans from Sweetmaria's. If I am short of green beans between...

There were several big institutions around Northville. What is now Maybury State Park was the Maybury TB sanitarium for children. Years ago my students did a video interview with the last director,...

Grandland shopping center has a new owner and new management company. They plan some upgrades to the property in the coming months. I don't know if that had anything to do with ACO pulling out--...

I think I have to disagree. It is about traffic. But, I agree with you about speed bumps. I live in Rosedale Park, and I just met with my county commissioner last week about planning traffic calming...

Anything that happens to an individual is traumatic, for him, the family, and the neighbors. One can only hope that something like this doesn't happen, and work to make sure that it doesn't. I can...

Back to the original post-- take a look at Rosedale Park. We have a strong neighborhood organization, great neighbors, it is safe, walkable, and is a great location. We are a 15 minute drive from...

Detroit CAN'T annex new areas the way other cities can-- it isn't allowed by the state constitution.

When you look at the old Detroit Edison aerial photos of pre-freeway Detroit, you can see what a different place it was. The 1949 photos of downtown and near east side and Corktown area show an...

This development, at least based on what I saw a few months back, is mixed use, and will include a commuter rail station [[not Woodward light rail, but the Pontiac/DTW/Ann Arbor rail line).

As I recall, much of the cost overrun was from the new construction technology they used, which is a pre-stressed formed concrete. I think that is the same system they used when they built the...

Dexlin is right. It is a Southern thing. I read somewhere that it really started in Germany 300 years ago-- at least that is the oldest reference, if I remember correctly.