tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356809692024-03-14T00:05:09.138-07:00Detroit Memories NewsletterMemories of metro Detroit in the 50s, 60s and 70s.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-66562737244505066982015-10-10T12:57:00.003-07:002015-10-10T13:11:12.461-07:00Newsletter takes a final bow<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Subscribers, </span><br />
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Eileen Trombley Glick</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-55122730368050836612015-02-01T08:30:00.000-07:002015-03-21T09:57:05.794-07:00Making Changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon I'll be experiencing one of life's "magic moments" as </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I step away from my 19.4 years of full-time employment with a Phoenix financial printing company (RR Donnelley)</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...all served working nights. The transition ahead will be a life changer for me, but I'm looking forward it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, I need to mention that my trusty email software provider, GoDaddy, disabled the accounts of many AOL and Verizon subscribers (again) within the last few months. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They tell me they're aware of the problem and are working on it.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Meanwhile, I was able to reinstate all of the bounced accounts. My fingers are crossed that it doesn't happen again with this issue.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-4356412494674703932014-12-08T08:24:00.000-07:002014-12-08T08:47:32.004-07:00Coney Island Santa Cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-82552475995849726982014-12-08T08:20:00.000-07:002014-12-08T09:07:29.348-07:00Stevie Wonder receives Presidential Medal of Freedom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Stevie Wonder</b>'s personal trophy collection already includes 22 Grammy Awards, an Oscar, the Kennedy Center Honors and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Jim Garrett</b>, of Redford, would argue that LEGO is not just for kids. Since 2004 Garrett has constructed 22 buildings, from small, two-story structures to the 11-ft tall <b>Penobscot Building</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twelve of those 22 buildings are replicas of real <b>Detroit</b> structures, including the<b> DIA</b> and the <b>Main Library</b> from <b>Midtown</b> and the <b>Fisher Building</b> from <b>New Center</b>. Most of his downtown <b>Detroit</b> buildings are on view at the <b>Henry Ford Museum</b> this month. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of <b>Motown Records</b>' most memorable voices is gone, as balladeer <b>Jimmy Ruffin</b> died at a Las Vegas hospital. He was 78.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruffin's most enduring hit has to be 1966's <i>"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,"</i> with its majestic, stately rhythm and Ruffin's deeply soulful, sorrowful vocal. He followed up that Top 10 hit with <i>"I've Passed This Way Before"</i> in 1967. In 1980 he enjoyed a comeback hit with <i>"Hold on to My Love."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">At an average length of 233 inches (19.4) feet, the longest cars of 1975 might have just squeezed into one of the federally sized sparking spots, provided there wasn’t a concrete parking barrier in place consuming a precious foot or 2 of space.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415121871818_6585"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I received a email from <b>Les Martens</b> regarding one of the memories that appears on the <a href="http://www.detroitmemories.com/">www.DetroitMemories.com</a> webpage. It said:</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Music Til Dawn sponsored by American Airlines was not on WJR but on WWJ. I was the host from 1956 to 1960. (Nightflight 760 was on WJR.)</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confusion it is, and I long ago gave up spending time or energy to correct it, but I stumbled on your links and couldn’t resist. Congratulations on your <b>Detroit</b> sites. It was fun surfing, and clearly you’ve put in a lot of time and energy as webmaster. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415121871818_6583"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FYI, here’s the 1.01 on <b>Music Til Dawn</b>. The program was the brainchild of C.R. Smith, founder of American Airlines, who worked late and could find no decent music (classical) late at night, pre-FM. (American was dominant in <b>Detroit</b>; the original Metro terminal was named for Smith.) Marketing people told him the demographics for classical music were limited, but he correctly intuited that the audience he wanted, professionals and educated upper middleclass, were the people travelling by air at that time, and they would fly his airline. He was right. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415121871818_6595"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show was set up originally in nine cities, each with a local host, in CBS O&O stations in the early 50’s. The CBS pattern was broken in <b>Detroit</b> when <b>WJR</b> wouldn’t come to terms on all night rates, so American Airlines’ ad agency made a deal with <b>WWJ</b>, which as the world’s first radio station, operated by the <b>Detroit News</b>, was not chopped liver. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415121871818_6598"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of years after I took over hosting in 1956, <b>WJR</b> started <b>Nightflight 760</b>, with a format of travelogue type info by <b>Jay Roberts</b> with related pop music. Memories later confused the two shows hopelessly. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415121871818_6581"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pre and postscripts on me may be in order, given your encyclopedic <b>Detroit</b> memories. At <b>WWJ</b> I moved on in the 60’s to daytime record shows, telephone talk shows and, finally, anchoring afternoon news and talk from 4 to 7pm, which expanded into their all news format after I finally got a law degree and started practicing. I did both for a few years. For 20 years I did the commentary on <b>Detroit Symphony</b> broadcasts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, I started at <b>WJR</b>. As a senior at <b>Redford High</b> in 1949-50, I was the last of the teenage emcees on <b>Make Way For Youth</b> with the <b>Don Large Chorus</b> on CBS. After me, they used a staff announcer; I was never sure if I was irreplaceable or the last straw. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good luck with the<b> Detroit Memories</b> scene. You’re doing great work.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-12196888167901776992014-11-06T12:45:00.002-07:002014-11-06T12:45:29.483-07:00Vernors Ginger Ale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If you live in Michigan, you might have had one of these to drink in the last few weeks. But if you live anywhere else, you probably have no idea what Vernors is."</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-58525657676920342542014-11-06T12:45:00.001-07:002014-11-06T12:45:14.173-07:00Better Made makes a national mark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Better Made</b> has been making potato chips in <b>Detroit</b> for 84 years, <br />but there's new momentum taking the company nationwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Los Angeles Times picked up on a new trend taking the snacks <br />to the next level. <b>Michiganders</b> who have moved away from home <br />still long for their old hometown chips.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-56818988461993617812014-11-06T12:45:00.000-07:002014-11-06T12:45:04.470-07:00Detroit Street Racing, 1964<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-14083136221424822032014-11-06T12:44:00.005-07:002014-11-06T12:44:54.361-07:00Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (A capella)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-13148217500047842782014-11-06T12:44:00.004-07:002014-11-06T12:44:34.957-07:00Tiger Stadium replica to be built...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-45964793986185751972014-11-06T12:43:00.001-07:002014-11-06T12:43:33.733-07:00WKNR MUSIC GUIDE ~ November 14, 1963<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35680969.post-19802118890206611612014-10-06T04:36:00.000-07:002014-10-06T04:37:05.309-07:00Boblo boat Columbia shipped out of Detroit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>SS Columbia</b>, one of the beloved but battered <b>Boblo</b> boats, has left <b>Detroit</b> for what is likely the last time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shortly after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 16th, the steamer left her longtime home in Ecorse, yanked away by tugs to Toledo. It is there that the nonprofit Columbia Project will lift the ship out of water, move it into drydock and get her shipshape again. Or at least shipshape enough to make the trek to New York state by next August. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Columbia Project has spent years working on a plan to return the boat to service in the Hudson River Valley — and will spend some $10 million to $20 million to do it.</span><br />
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