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Greetings Forum Phenoms,

The Detroit Free Press has an interesting section devoted to the grand opening of the United Artists Building from Sunday, January 29, 1928, starting on page 59 [[Part...

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Poster design by Saul Bass. Bass, famed graphic artist, did the film titles and posters for Otto Preminger...

A 2011 movie, "Kill the Irishman," had some Detroit locations, most notably in a parking lot behind the old UA theatre. Detroit was standing in for Cleveland in this flick. The Michigan Film Office's...

"Pillow Talk" was on WNIC with Allen Almond - ?

People who watch local television news simply love the weather. They love the different maps, the footage from around town and out of town, the long term forecasts. This is born out in the marketing...

My, my, my - so many guns. So many cellphones. So many young people desperate to go viral. Look at what happened in that toddling town of Chicago this weekend. "Wilding" is a term I haven't heard in...

The mention of Trappers Alley triggered a memory about The Attic Theatre which - if I recall correctly - was on the top floor [[5th ?). The Attic featured a resident theatre company, and a woman...

FUN FACT: The 41st Governor of Michigan, and Michigan Supreme Court Justice [[at the time) G. Mennen Williams, used to eat at TJ's, by himself, on early Friday evenings back in the late 70s and early...

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For a moment in the theater's past some of that office space was leased to a number of film distributors, [[20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Selznick...

When I was a kid I worked summers at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne. 14 weeks of doing whatever management told me to do. I ended up working everywhere in that facility except the paint room. Long...

Lest we forget...

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[QUOTE=Former_Detroiter;628668]I saw Ben-Hur in 1959 in 3-D at the UA.[/QUOTE

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. - Joan Didion

My forum friend, at such...

Don't forget the huge footprint near Pontiac made by Mat Ishbia's United Wholesale Mortgage - UWM. Ishbia insists that his nearly 7,000 employees come to the office daily. And although the UWM campus...

Thanks for posting, DetroitPride313. It's been a while since I've even thought about the RenCen - though I live closer to it today than I did when I worked down there: 1976-1982. Those of us working...

Okay, one more look back at the extraordinary legacy of films at the United Artists theater, with fond memories. This story is about movie competition. Ben-Hur and Spartacus, two mammoth productions,...

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Lest we forget...

First of all - is it Meatloaf or Meat Loaf? That was a debate that goes back as far as the Vest Pocket Theater days of 1971. "Meat" - that's what his girlfriend at the time called him, was still...

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It rained the evening of...

Greetings Forum Phenoms,

Resettlement - Afghans to Detroit. Just asking. With my cursory knowledge of the housing stock in Detroit, I am wondering whether a goodly number of boarded up houses...

Back in summer of 1981 when I was working at the RenCen they would test the fountain's water works at noon so that people working downtown could watch with fascination and delight. I believe...

...Or let the Detroit Institute of Arts/Detroit Film Theater purchase and run the place to not only support the Institute, but to continue to show independent films for that segment of moviegoers. A...

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My Covid-fogged mind is trying to recall the Renaissance 1-2-3-4. Having worked at the RenCen in the late 70s - early 80s, I went there after work or I'd actually come back down on the weekends. Were...

Dear Forum Phenoms,
Many years ago a contributor called eno asked in a post about Detroit coffee shops, if anyone knew of the spot called: The Cup of Socrates? No one responded. Kismet! Just today,...

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