If only we could move the triangle shaped GAR building to the triangle shaped property at the south entrance to downtown Birmingham [[Woodward and Old Woodward). What a neat landmark building that...
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If only we could move the triangle shaped GAR building to the triangle shaped property at the south entrance to downtown Birmingham [[Woodward and Old Woodward). What a neat landmark building that...
Peoples attitudes towards construction can change on a dime due to economics or events.
The Old Redford Theather Japanese murals were painted over when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
I believe...
An additional note from WJR 760 AM News. Back in 1998, morning talk host Paul W Smith lead a radio campain [[fund raising) to restore and relocate the stove back to the fair grounds. This time, it...
Looks like vandals are not involved with this one... WJR Radio news reports an act of "Mother Nature" [[a violent thunderstorm) with God looking on.... doing nothing to stop her.
Perhaps a...
The large mahagony wooden stove is from the Detroit Stove works. It sat near the entrance by Belle Isle [[perhaps from the 1890's till they moved it to the State Fair Grounds. I believe it was at...
Just read the 1978 book "The Secret Life of Henry Ford" by John Dahlinger. He is the alleged son of Henry Ford. He got real good treatment form they guy who looked like his grandfather, while his 30...
I thought the Rosa Parks [[in her final years) was very poor, threathened with eviction.
Some one broke in where she was living. But the crook fled. Later she identified him and off to jail he...
I also hear that they got the pipe organ out of there. It's in restoration. I wonder if they had to pay for the organ. Would it have been demolished with the building if they didn't take it.
Though not in Detroit, there is a new Train/Bus Depot on south bound Wide Track
[[Woodward Ave) in Pontiac. It has been built [[completed in about June), but not yet open.
It will service the...
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