The Ford Piquette Avenue plant was recently featured in the Free Press. It’s the birthplace of the Model T, also known as the Tin Lizzie, but hadn’t been used for years and was in danger of being lost until a few years ago the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc (T-Plex, for short) stepped […]
From the new Detroit techno site, an article from the UK about the history of the influence of Detroit techno. Detroit has seen much music birthed there and so many people take it for granted. Sometimes it takes an outsider, perhaps a techno music lover in Europe, to appreciate the things that make […]
Detroit News — African-American history and Detroit go hand-in-hand. A group of doctors it is turning a historic building into a medical museum and they’re currently seeking donations of old equipment and raising funds for the renovation. It’ll be good to see the addition of a new museum and hopefully it will draw […]
The Detroit News is running a series on the history of Woodward Avenue and they published a story on the history of little Highland Park, which straddles Woodward just a few miles north of downtown, where “the managers and workers of the burgeoning auto industry found an urban oasis — small neighborhoods of tidy bungalows […]