Remembering Aretha Franklin With Evrod Cassimy, Marsha Music, Dan Austin & Detroiters
The Queen of Soul dies, and a city mourns
The Queen of Soul dies, and a city mourns
The Grande Ballroom is one of the most hallowed spaces in Detroit music history. It has been home to jazz, big band, rock. It was a center of Detroit’s counterculture movement. It also is a gem of a building designed by Charles Agree and completed in 1928. He left...
The building at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Grand River has a long history, and is one of the most ornate exteriors in the city of Detroit, and possibly the United States. For years the Book Tower was ridiculed as one of Detroit’s ugliest buildings. It turns out...
Imagine a 1930s police car with a ridiculously sized horn on top, politely but firmly giving orders on Detroit’s streets. Well, that was Detroit’s “Voice of Safety,” or their talking police car that’s featured in this neat retro film clip. There are some cool scenes of downtown...
Detroit’s history as a city spans more than 300 years. Photography was only available for a portion of that time. Today, we’re going to look at stereoscopic images. See, before fancy virtual reality technology, there were stereoscopes. These were simple devices with special lenses that make the image...
Over the Fourth of July weekend, a piece of Detroit history burned. A piece that a dedicated group of neighbors was trying to save. On the evening of Sunday, July 3 the Nortown Community Development Corporation got a call that there was a fire at the Philetus W. Norris House...
Detroit’s history is full of bizarre stories and fascinating characters, yet many of the strangest still lurk in the faded clippings of old newspapers, lost amid the forgotten of pile media rubble. One such story is that of Thomas Lynn Bradford. A Detroit resident in the early 1900s, Bradford...
Southwest Detroit and Springwells are suddenly in the forefront of conversation again, thanks to this Metro Times article diving into the work that a group called Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI) and some others are doing in a part of Southwest Detroit. We at Daily Detroit found it interesting that the...