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67 unusual facts about Detroit


Adventures in Good Music

German-American musicologist Karl Haas, whose knowledge of every facet of music was encyclopedic, started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.

Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi

Sindhi had a cardiac arrest in 2000, and was taken to William Beaumont Hospital in Detroit.

Arthur Dock Johnson

Arthur Dock Johnson (born December 20, 1982 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American basketball player.

Ballinascarty

Henry's father, William, and grandfather, John, were born in Ballinascarty before their emigration to Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Booth Colman

Colman has played Scrooge hundreds of times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.

Cadillac Place

A third bridge was constructed across Grand Boulevard in the early 1980s, to connect the building with New Center One and the St. Regis Hotel.

Carl Carlton

Carl Carlton (born May 21, 1952, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)".

Carl Gilliard

Gilliard started his career working as a radio newscaster at WGPR in Detroit.

Corey Fisher

Villanova was selected to play in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 versus the Kansas Jayhawks in Detroit, Michigan, in which Fisher scored 6 points along with 4 assists in the Wildcats' 72–57 loss.

D. Augustus Straker

He later moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he became the first black lawyer to appear before the Michigan Supreme Court.

Détroit

The formation of the duo follows the announcement of Cantat's band Noir Désir in 2010.

Both were part of the rock formation Passion Fodder from 1985 to 1991 before they split up and Cantat moved on to establish his own famous band Noir Désir, whereas Humbert went on to join the American band 16 Horsepower, and later to Lilium and Wovenhand, amongst others.

Detroit-Oxford

The Detroit-Oxford was an automobile manufactured in Oxford, Michigan by the Detroit-Oxford Motor Car Company from 1905-06.

Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Rail Road

At the time of the merger, all three railroads existed mostly on paper, but on June 30, 1871, DL&LM opened the segment between Detroit and Plymouth, with the segment from Plymouth to Brighton following on July 1.

Detroit's Marwil Bookstore

Marwil existed on the WSU campus as a cultural attraction for the students and faculty of Wayne State University and from members of the surrounding communities who were interested in scholarly work.

Detroit's Most Wanted

After watching an episode of America's Most Wanted Brandon Greene suggested the group change their name to "Detroit's Most Wanted" referencing to the both America's Most Wanted List and the California rap group Compton's Most Wanted.

DJ Assault

Craig De Sean Adams (born October, 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Assault is a hip hop musician from Detroit, Michigan.

Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.

Elchonon Wasserman

Rabbi Simcha Wasserman served as Dean of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit in the 1940s, founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchononin California in the 1950s, and later founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon in Jerusalem.

Eliza Howell Park

Eliza Howell Park is a public park in Brightmoor, Detroit, Michigan.

Flint Rogues Rugby Club

In 1980, the club brought home the B Division Championship for the Michigan Rugby Union in 1980 and also a Consolation Trophy for the B Division at the Great Lakes Rugby Tournament in Detroit.

Frank Douglas Garrett

Frank Douglas Garrett a graduate of Mackenzie High School in Detroit was an all-star basketball player and was selected as an All-PSL player in 1961 and 1962.

Fred Bridges

His parents Thomas Jones and Clara Law moved to Detroit as part of the Great Migration.

George Waldbott

Afterwards he emigrated to the United States, where he interned at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Gerald C. Meyers

In 1962 Meyers was appointed Director of Purchasing for American Motors Corporation in Detroit.

Harry Gardiner

October 7, 1916 in Detroit - The Detroit News had hired Gardiner to attract attention to the News' ad-taking office by climbing up the 12-story Majestic Building at 12:15 PM.

History of the Polish Americans in Metro Detroit

Many Polish residents of Detroit in the decade of 1910 did not send their children to Detroit Public Schools.

Hugh Cowan

One was Canadian Achievement in the Province of Ontario, where he wrote about the achievements of the Canadian people in Detroit River District, Essex county, Windsor, and the whole province of Ontario.

Indiana State Road 13

This was part of the route that Eastern settlers, having crossed the lakes to Detroit, used after they disembarked to travel south into Indiana.

James Pennington

James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ and producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, United States.

Jim Daniels

James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and writer.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

John Lee Hooker, Jr.

Born in Detroit, Hooker was performing live on local radio stations by the time he was 8 years old, and toured with his father as a teenager.

John Stoughton Newberry

The town of Newberry, Michigan is named after Newberry, as a consequence of the congressman's business interest in the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette railroad.

Legend of the Octopus

The practice started April 15, 1952 when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an octopus into the rink of The Old Red Barn.

Lisa Fithian

In the early 1990s Lisa joined the labor movement, bringing her experience to the Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and Los Angeles and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit.

Lord Littlebrook

He was also part of the Wrestlemania III card in 1987 in front of a record 93,173 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, the largest professional wrestling attendance in North American history.

Lowell Amos

Lowell Edwin Amos (born January 4, 1943, in Anderson, Indiana) is a former Detroit businessman whose mother and three wives all died under suspicious circumstances.

Marshall Russell Reed

He was assigned to the Detroit Episcopal Area (the Detroit and Michigan Annual Conferences).

Matt McGloin

After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.

Mobile phone signal

This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal

In October 2002, Bilal was indicted and shortly thereafter arrested in Detroit.

Olin Dutra

While traveling east from Los Angeles, Dutra stopped in the Detroit area to meet up with his brother Mortie, as both were entered in the Open, and began to feel very ill.

Page Kennedy

Kennedy was born in Detroit, Michigan but grew up in Los Angeles with his mother until he was six years of age.

Patrick J. Duggan

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Duggan received a B.S. from Xavier University in 1955 and an LL.B. from the University of Detroit in 1958.

Patrick Le Quément

Promised promotion, he went to Detroit but returned to Europe in June 1985 when Carl Hahn, Chairman of the Volkswagen-Audi Group, invited him to set up a centre for Advance Design and Strategy.

Presidents' Athletic Conference

The PAC was founded in 1955 by the presidents of Western Reserve University (1955-1967), Case Institute of Technology (1955-1970), John Carroll University (1955-1988) and the University of Detroit.

Robert Gordy

Robert Louis Gordy (born in 1931 in Detroit, Michigan) was the youngest child of Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller, and is best known as the youngest brother of Motown founder, Berry Gordy, Jr..

Robert Kerns

Robert Kerns (June 8, 1933, Detroit - February 15, 1989, Vienna) was an American baritone, he was a stylish and versatile singer with a wide repertoire.

Robert Leonard Ewing Scott

He was arrested a year later, on April 9, 1957, when Canadian customs authorities stopped him as he was re-entering Canada after a visit to Detroit to buy a car.

Roy Halliday

His air training took place in the United States (still formally neutral at that time) at the naval air station at Grosse Ile, near Detroit and at Pensacola, Florida.

Sean Day

His family relocated periodically before he was transferred to the Detroit area.

Sippie Wallace

In March 1986, following a concert in Germany at Burghausen Jazz Festival, she suffered a severe stroke, was hospitalized, returned to the US, and died on her 88th birthday at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Southwest Detroit

It comprises several neighborhoods including Delray, Mexicantown, Hubbard Farms, Detroit, Boynton-Oakwood Heights, and Springwells Village.

Specs Howard

Specs Howard (born Jerry Liebman on April 8, 1926) is a radio pioneer who spent three decades entertaining audiences in Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.

Springfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan

It was a station on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway.

Stan Heath

He worked at Wayne State University in Detroit the following three years, including serving as associate head coach in 1994 when WSU set a school record for victories (25–5), helping the Tartars win two Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles with a trip to the NCAA Division II Final Four in 1993.

The Detroit native was also voted the MAC Coach of the Year and named the national Rookie Coach of the Year by both CBSSportsline.com and CollegeInsider.com.

Stephen Goosson

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930.

Stewart Francke

Stewart Francke (born September 15, 1958 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a singer/musician/songwriter in Detroit.

Ted Bramley

Born in Westminster, while still young, Bramley moved to Detroit with his family, but they returned to London during World War I.

Terry Peake

Two years later, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he continued to play and study classical piano, as well as guitar.

Vic Braden

He told Sports Illustrated in a 1976 interview that he once hitch hiked to Detroit to watch Don Budge play Bobby Riggs because he wanted to learn how Budge hit his backhand.

W. H. Clatworthy

Clatworthy worked at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of North Carolina, Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh and with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.

Water privatization in the United States

The experiences in Detroit provide some perspective on what happens with corrupt government related to public or private participation.

Westborn Market

Westborn Market is a small chain of produce-specializing supermarkets located in the Metropolitan Detroit area of southeast Michigan.

Wimmersperg Spz

The gun was designed by Heinrich von Wimmersperg of Austria, who after World War II, moved to Detroit, USA.


1948 Stanley Cup Finals

This was the Stanley Cup debut series for Detroit's Gordie Howe, and the last for Toronto's Syl Apps who retired after the series.

1978 Detroit Lions season

This season would also be the swan song for starting quarterback Greg Landry's stellar ten year career in Detroit, as in the offseason was shipped to the Baltimore Colts for or 1979 fourth round pick (#88-Ulysses Norris), 1979 fifth round pick (#131-Walt Brown), 1980 third round pick (#62-Mike Friede), in a rebuilding process begun by head coach Monte Clark.

Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius

These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc.

Armand de La Richardie

These had already in 1740, owing to a bloody feud with the Detroit Ottawas and to the reluctance, if not refusal, of Governor Beauharnais to let the Hurons remove to Montreal, sullenly left Detroit and settled at "Little Lake" (now Rondeau Harbour) near Sandusky.

Back Porch Video

It premiered on January 28, 1984 as the brainchild of Russ Gibb, former owner of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.

Carl Powell

He played high school football at Kettering High School in Detroit.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Damon Keith

On December 14, 2001, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) took Haddad into custody for overstaying his visa and initiated removal proceedings in Detroit before Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker.

Daytona 500

As an example, new affiliates WDJT in Milwaukee and WGNX in Atlanta — both cities that are home to NASCAR races — and WWJ in Detroit, close to Michigan International Speedway, were on the UHF band (channels 14–69), meaning that they had a significantly reduced broadcast area compared to former affiliates WITI, WAGA-TV, and WJBK, respectively.

Dennis Archer

Archer was a strong supporter of numerous construction projects in downtown Detroit, including two new stadiums, Ford Field for the Detroit Lions and Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers.

Detroit Race Course

The Detroit Race Course was a horse racing facility in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

Dorothy H. Turkel House

Recently restored (at a reported cost of one million dollars) it is in the Palmer Woods neighborhood of Detroit, in north-central Detroit.

Élisabeth Ballet

2010 : Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA ; Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA ; MONA Museum of New Art - Detroit's Contemporary Museum, Pontiac, USA ;

Everett Barksdale

Everett Barksdale (April 28, 1910, Detroit, Michigan - January 29, 1986, Inglewood, California) was an American jazz guitarist and session musician, Harold Vick's most used guitarist.

Fairlane Town Center

The mall is one of four super-regional Taubman malls built in the Detroit metro area in the 1970s, the other three being Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor (1973), Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights (1976) and Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi (1977).

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Thanks to a contribution from the United Auto Workers “The Hand of God” was recast and donated to the city of Detroit in honor of Frank Murphy, Michigan Governor and US Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Grand Lodge of Michigan

The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe.

Griot Galaxy

3: Motor City Modernists, recorded at Detroit's Montreux Jazz Festival.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Educated at Detroit's exclusive Liggett School for Girls, her family's great wealth brought her in contact with America's social elite and in 1921 she married Manhattan stockbroker, George Sloane.

Jane Briggs Hart

She attended the Academies of the Sacred Heart in Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Torresdale, Pennsylvania, and Manhattanville College in New York.

Joseph Zerilli

Working as a laborer with the Detroit Gas Company, Zerilli founded the Purple Gang with William Joseph "Bugs Bill" Bernstein, Abe Bernstein, Harry Fleisher, and Louis Fleisher at the onset of Prohibition.

Joyce Randolph

“That's still a mystery ... I was a nobody in Detroit. Why Garbo? Well, she was Scandinavian — and so was I”, responded Randolph.

Kenneth Cockrell

:For the similarly named interim mayor of Detroit, see Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Marvin Winans

The album features: Doen Moen, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, Mom Winans, Roderick Dixon, Bishop Paul Morton amongst others and was recorded at Winans' church in Detroit, Mi.

Mechanical lubricator

A British patent was granted in 1911 and this lubricator was then manufactured by the Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil) as the British Detroit Lubricator.

Mischief Night

In the 1994 film The Crow, based upon comic book of the same name, the protagonist, Eric Draven, and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding on "Devil's Night" by a street gang on the orders of Detroit's most notorious crime lord, Top Dollar.

Nellie Leland School

Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies.

Nick Holder

Holder began DJing in the early 1980s, and soon became influenced by the Detroit techno scene and DJs such as Derrick May and Carl Craig.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Oscar Stanage

Stanage joined the Tigers in 1909 and eventually replaced Boss Schmidt as Detroit's regular catcher.

Reactions to the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 attack

The international flight originated in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, Netherlands and made an emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Red Hill Valley Parkway

Opponents asserted that two groups would be the chief beneficiaries of the expressway: long-distance truckers travelling from Detroit to Buffalo, and land developers on the Hamilton Mountain.

Richard E. Dauch

After a stint as Assistant Sales Manager in the Chevrolet Detroit Zone, he was appointed Plant Manager Chevrolet Gear and Axle (one of the five plants he later acquired to co-found American Axle and Manufacturing).

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

The hardwork and the generosity of Missouri, Chicago and Detroit provinces, raised Patna mission soon to a vice-province and then in 1962, to an independent province.

Stoney Case

In 2000, Case signed with the Detroit Lions as the primary backup to quarterback Charlie Batch.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter.

Toi Derricotte

During her years at Detroit's Girls Catholic Central High School, Derricotte recounts a religious education that she felt was steeped in images of death and punishment, a Catholicism that, according to the poet, morbidly paraded "the crucifixion, saints, martyrs in the Old Testament and the prayers of the Mass."

Veterans Memorial Building

UAW-Ford National Programs Center, Detroit, Michigan, a building that may possibly also be known as Veterans Memorial Building

Vincent Meli

He was named by former Detroit mobster Nove Tocco and retired federal agents as an associate of Michael Bane, president of Pontiac, Michigan's Teamster Local 614, during federal investigations into labor union corruption.

W47DL-D

The signal can be seen throughout the city of Detroit, its suburbs and the nearby Windsor area.

Walkerville, Ontario

The Tivoli Theatre (recently reopened Old Walkerville Theatre), is of 1920s art-deco design by C. Howard Crane (who would also design the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan).

William Metzger

William E. Metzger (1868-1933), Detroit automotive pioneer and organizer of Cadillac and E-M-F

WJMY

WJMY-TV Channel 20, a defunct station that was to broadcast on channel 20 in the Detroit market