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To make it really safe, we should make it a government monopoly with all activity taking place in government owned facilities. Put all the ladies involved in civil service with civil service...

Toledo was a junction spot between major east-west and north-south rail lines. Detroit was a dogleg for most lines.

There are a lot of stations on the AM and FM dials and everybody has a tuner to select the station they want to listen to. No one is forced to listen to something they do not want or like. The...

Wasn't it once called Campus Martius or something like that?

Back in the day when you got a new plate every year instead of "update stickers", Michigan had a few years where the plates honored UofM one year [[maize letters on a blue plate) and MSU the next...

My father wasn't inducted. He got an ROTC commission from Michigan State in 1935. In 1941, he was called to active duty and processed through Ft Wayne before being shipped to Camp Wolters, TX for...

As I remember, back in the 50s, we used the term "squirrel motor" to describe putting another brand engine into a car. Mercury or Olds engines into Fords was a very popular choice. It was also used...

Except for the evolution and modernization of cars to today's models, what has 100 years of "progress" done for Detroit?

Been going on for years. I remember the witch from 6 to 7 digits in Detroit. We went from PRospect 3324 to LAkeview 7-3324 on the east side.

What was actually produced in quantity: The LARC XV and the LARC LX. You will have to search on the internet for pix because I have used up my allotted picture attachments on DetroitYes.

Iceland Air is not making its money on people going to Iceland. Flights come in from several airports in the US arriving at roughly the same time. There is a big mix in the Reykjavik Airport and...

Long ago and far away!


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In my day, we generally referred to these as flats" or "income flats". Duplexes were where the units were side-by-side in a shared building and not up and down.

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There might be something in this. Back in the 1990s, I was living in the Tidewater area of Virginia. At a boat show, there was a NOAA booth where they had a hurricane history of Virginia....

One of the reasons for the Workman's Comp program is to have equity on compensation.

Employee One is injured badly. He works for a corporation with very deep pockets. Hot shot attorney takes his...

Before Cobo Hall, many shows to include the Detroit Auto Show were held in the cooler months in the State Fair pavilion.

It was the boomer kids that either got drafted and sent to Vietnam or dodged the draft in college or Canada.

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I can remember when the Detroit News theater listing page covered a full page every day with all the Detroit [[and area) theaters listed and the start times of the mostly double features playing...

Economics! It may be possible that the current best use for a piece of land is as a parking lot. In the future, if Detroit is truly coming back, the owner of the land can easily sell lt to an...

Hotels do it too. "Make hay while the sun shines."

I remember doing a tour of the sub one day in 50 or 51.

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Here is something to brighten the thread
Dan Campbell shockingly emerges as right guy for Lions [[deadspin.com)