L.A. Detroiters and Michiganders Picnic

Saturday, July 14th ~ 11:00am - 7:00pm

35th Annual L.A. Detroiters and Michiganders Picnic

Cheviot Rancho Park
(picnic area north of swimming pool)

2551 Motor Ave, Los Angeles, CA

RSVP your name(s) and name of the Michigan High School (if applicable) you attended to detroitersla@yahoo.com or call 818-270-1025 for more info.

Surprise Guests and Exhibitions. Donations accepted. T-Shirts will be available.

Click here for photos of the 2010 Picnic

Friends of, but not affiliated with, Detroit Memories

Stewart McMillin Detroit Tours

DETROIT BREWERY HISTORY AND MICROBREWERIES TOUR

 SAT, JULY 21, 2012

1:00-7:00 PM

$35 fee includes air-conditioned coach bus, handouts, and two terrific tour guides:

PETE CORBIL,
Detroit brewer expert and former president of the Beer Can Club of America, 

and

STEWART McMILLIN

For more info on this Tour,

CLICK HERE

 

Webcams Across Michigan

CLICK ON PHOTO OR THIS LINK 

http://www.woodtv.com/subindex/weather/webcams

14th Annual Cruisin’ Gratiot

14th ANNUAL CRUISIN' GRATIOT

Saturday, June 16, 2012

All day

24405 Gratiot
Eastpointe, MI 48021

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WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE

http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/

Saturday August 18, 2012

A LIFE REMEMBERED ~ Faruq Z. Bey

Faruq Z. Bey

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June 2, 2012

Faruq Z. Bey, local legend and icon of avant garde music in Detroit, has died.
Bey was the leader of the group Griot Galaxy, a sprawling group into which dozens of musicians fell in and out between 1972 and the time it stabilized
mid-decade and slowly distilled to a classic quintet around 1980.

READ MORE

How Did Detroit's Streets Get Their Names?

http://historydetroit.com/places/streets.php

Jefferson Avenue, for instance, was named for President Thomas Jefferson,
who appointed the first Michigan territorial officials and was a good friend of
Augustus Woodward. It was first surveyed in 1807 and named Main Street,
but soon renamed for Jefferson. At its intersection with Griswold,
it passes through the heart of the old cemetery of
St. Anne's Church where the remains of Detroit's
earliest inhabitants are buried.

Detroit's Buildings, Places and Landmarks

HISTORIC DETROIT
Buildings, Places and Landmarks

http://historicdetroit.org/buildings/

Pronouncing "Gratiot"

Hi Eileen,

Just thought I would forward this peek at an email I sent out to a website, http://www.soulofamerica.com/detroit-guide.phtml, that has written some history of Detroit which apparently has been picked up and repeated numerous times all over the internet. I call your attention to the first point where this site and numerous others repeatedly state that Gratiot is pronounced "Gray-sha." Oooo! THAT irritated me! Perhaps the French may have parlez-vous-ed it that way, but I never knew anyone from Detroit that said it like that when I was growing up...and I spent a lot of time in and around this street.

They also make a big deal out of Orchestra Hall without seeming to realize that it was only Paradise Theater for a few years of its life and began as — and then returned to — Orchestra Hall.

Anyway, in light of the recent discussions in the Detroit Memories Discussion Group about pronunciations of words (for example Detroit vs. Dee-troit), I thought you might at least find this one interesting. I was shocked at how many times this "Gray-sha" business has been repeated now all over the internet!

Lee Dixon

McMillin Tours

Great things to do and see in Metro Detroit & beyond!

Upcoming
July - Detroit Brewery
October - Greek Tours of Detroit

For details, go to http://mcmillintours.com/

Error Message Problems

After numerous attempts to fix an error message that was being superimposed over several of the posts in this Blog, nothing worked. Tried three different web browsers, linking and unlinking, copying and repasting, and searching the Help section, but still no solution.

Here's what I was seeing atop several of the posts:

Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the Application configuration. It must match one of the Connect or Canvas URLs or domain must be the same as or a subdomain of one of the Application's base domains.

I've inserted three BLANK POSTS in this Newsletter, and that appears to have solved the problem (how, I don't know, but it seems to be working).

Thanks to those who've contacted me with ideas about how to fix this.

Eileen

Detroit Theater Organ Society celebrates 50 years!

The Detroit Theater Organ Society will be celebrating FIFTY YEARS! in conjunction with its May and June concerts.  We'd like to let people in the metro area (and elsewhere, too) know about this milestone.

DTOS continues to be active with its organ concerts and maintainance of the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ.  DTOS is also tied to Detroit's memories as owner of the original Wurlitzer pipe organ built for Detroit's historic Fisher Theater.  Probably most Detroit Memories readers have attended some program at the Fisher -- movies prior to about 1960 and Broadway plays after the theater was changed into a Broadway house ("legitimate" theater).  

The early DTOS volunteers came together to remove the Wurlitzer from the theater as the Fisher transitioned to serve a new generation of theater-goers.  DTOS has maintained the original design of the instrument in its new/current home at the Senate Theater on Michigan Ave.  

Go to www.dtos.org for information on DTOS and the May 20 and June 9 special public concerts.  There will be other special events in May and June to mark the DTOS 50th!

Fred Bruflodt

East Lansing, MI

Southeastern HS / 1960

Colin Kennedy donates CKLW photo

Hi Eileen --

On my way back from Myrtle Beach, I stopped in Cleveland to donate an artifact to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This is the "Ben Hur Wall" that CKLW featured on so many of their top 30 brochures. Paul Drew presented each of the Operators (Producers) with one a the Christmas Party in, I  think, 1967. This was the artwork used in the original. I had it hung for years but my now-grown kids have no interest in it, so I wrote to the Hall and they were excited to get some memories from the station. If anyone else has anything from any of the Detroit stations, I am sure they would like to have them.

I hope someday my kids will be there, see it,  and say 'Hey that is from my dad!' There appears to be a tax advantage for Americans but Revenue Canada is not as kind. You will not be paid for your donation but there is paperwork and probably a tax receipt.

Colin Kennedy
Former CKLW board operator
http://www.thebig8.net/boardops.html

Fretter House Coffee

Eileen --

I bet you'll love this. Found it in my Dad's cupboard after he passed eight months ago. Ollie Fretter gave out Maxwell House cans covered them in his label for only a short period  

Feel free to use the image you would like. The coffee can will be placed at my wife's Houston TX bed-and-breakfast in honor of my father.


Jason A. Mass

Michigan Explained

Detroit Poems by Doug Tanoury

My House And Shadows


A black and white photograph
Of the house I grew up in hangs
Framed on my living room wall

It stands alight in winter sun
A series of rectangles topped
With gable triangles of the roof

I stare into darkened windows
Where I once gazed onto photo
Perfect afternoons filled with light

The front porch is a box held up
By two white pillars and my
Grandfather’s swing is empty now

It looks as if no one is home but 
I alone looking at this landscape
And plain facade of red bricks


Windows some dark and others
White with shades drawn against
The brightness of late afternoon


As the sun sets behind the bar and
Bowling alley across Gratiot Avenue
A lone street lamp casts its silhouette


On Rohns street the shadows are long
Stretched into just before sunset length 
In front of and on the house I grew up in.


Reprinted with permission from Doug Tanoury © 2003 All Rights Reserved

More of Doug's Poems...

For more of Doug's Detroit Poems, visit:
http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/DetroitPoems.pdf

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