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Great answer, eastsideal! Thanks for the information.

We all know about this wonderful photo collection by now, hopefully.

I have been fully entrenched in the archives for the past few days, but I do have a question.

Can anyone tell me what...

My Dad remembers a Mexican restaurant where the present site of McDonalds [[13 and Woodward) currently is. There was a large cement statue of a man in a sombrero where he used to wait taking the bus...

Thanks for the speedy responses everyone. Very cool!

It's a long shot but I recently purchased a large photo album which came from an estate near McNichols / Livernois area. Wondering if anyone can remember the corner that this Musicland location was...

Recent flea market acquisition. Sorry for image quality, taken with my phone as I do not have a scanner. They look to be around 1973ish, anyone want to help out?

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I have a question regarding this building. It sits on Ten Mile road about where the railroad crosses 696 in Ferndale. It appears vacant. Does anyone know what this large building was?

Must have been Club Grand Bar. Thank you.

My great uncle Lawrence frequented a bar, trying to recall the name. All I can remember is that it was near the Grand River and Mendota area. Around 1969 he was robbed and beaten after leaving one...

Does anyone remember that big old hotel at John R and Nine? I think it was a Holiday Inn back in the 1960s-70s. I remember it looking quite sad in the years leading up to its demolition, but I...

Det74 fantastic picture! How on earth! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Someone who grew up in south Royal Oak in the 1970s recently told me that he remembers classmates being displaced by construction of the freeway. I had always thought that section officially opened...

http://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=200231

This is John Stewart.

Hmm. Very interesting, I used to hang out in that park for many years and had never heard anything of the case. Surely a place like Royal Oak in 1988 would have wanted to quickly downplay this from...

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I came across this Detroit Free Press from April 26th, 1988

Does anyone remember this?

Seems like something this sinister would have gotten more coverage.

This is really all I can...

Wow, very cool picture. Where did you find this? Anyone else have any pictures other than from that one Flickr account?

In a rapidly changing downtown, I find it very difficult to keep track of businesses of the past...hoping a rousing thread will help stimulate my memory / imagination. I'll start with the old F & M...

Thanks guys. I guess I could have googled it but this was more fun anyway.

Haven't posted in a while but I am back and now actively reading posts again. I was driving through Royal Oak and noticed this neat advertisement recently uncovered on the former Royal Music building...

Tomorrow while at work I will try to copy down the information. At any rate, still a pretty cool piece of history left behind.


Thanks for the help from everyone else.

At my work, in Ferndale, I was looking at the circuit breaker box the other day, there is an emblem on it advertising an electrical company in Royal Oak, MI, but the address as "John R". This is...

Conglomeration - a mass of miscellaneous things, a heterogeneous combination

A conglomeration of the past 60 years of pop / counter culture by way of dress, lifestyle, interest, diet, with the obvious addition of the amenities of the digital age.

Also, as an aside to this entire thread, who gives a shit? Let's create MORE division in one of the most racially / economically / morally segregated areas in the United States. It always amuses me...

Uh...the term "hipster" has been used in Vernacular American English since at least the 1940's