Search:

Does anybody have any parents or relatives/freinds who lived around St Marys/West Chicago who might remember what was going on there in the 1940's--meaning what the pipes and roads were for in...

The West Chicago bus line ran out as far as St. Mary's/Abington until it was extended later on. I thought that perhaps Stoepel No. 2 was site of a bus termainal for a period of time, but a member of...

So now I read that Stoepel is "a well-known drug market." Why do not the cops simply stop it? Two cops assigned to drive around the park each shift would totally close it down.
Why do Mayor Bing...

Detroit was surprisingly ephemeral. Example of Atlas Theatre: built in 1940’s, good movies shown until 1970s, degraded to xxx-rated showings, then to a church and gone. Such rapid...

When you lived there, were Niznik's Hardware and Niznik's Market still there? I would like to know when that block of stores [['strip mall' of the 1950's) declined and then vanished. We had no car...

I often wondered why the park was Stoepel #2--why not name it for something / somebody else. However, as pointed out above, Frederick Stoepel was a prominent developer in the area and perhaps he...

thanks for this information! what is the source? i'd like to learn more about this sort of thing regarding Detroit's history. what is amazing is that the vacant lots shown in the 1949 photo were...

Yes, AA battery is very good possibility. I know for fact that Nike anti aircraft missles were deployed in Rouge Park as late as 1960, so to protect war plants like Detroit Diesel and Nash in the...

You might just be right there. The possiblity of storing water piping, sewer pipes, and other things needed for developing the area is probably right. At the bottom of the photo it is seen clearly...

Awesome photo! Where did you find it?
Does anyone have inforamtion on who Stoepel was?
From 1957 to 1967, I lived at two different locations visible in this photo. By the time I arrived, the...