Quote Originally Posted by downtownguy View Post
Go back to EastsideAl's post #9 in this thread for some info on the German influence on the east side of downtown. Schweizers Place east of the Ren Cen, the old Stroh Brewery, Harmonie Park, Historic Trinity Lutheran Church are some of the remants of the large German population. detroit1701.org has a nice history on the Harmonie Club here.
My grandfather [[b. 1891 and baptized at St. John-St. Luke) lived on Hastings St. between [today's] Monroe and Lafayette. His father was Irish and his mother was German. The neighborhood was German; his best friend's dad owned a bar on Lafayette. As a young boy, he used to hang out at the Dodge Brothers garage at the corner of Hastings and Monroe!! The family moved east over near Water Works Park sometime in the 1910s.