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54 unusual facts about Détroit


Amy Boesky

Formerly from the Detroit area, Amy has studied and worked in various locations, including Oxford, England; Washington, D.C., and the Boston area, where she has lived since 1992.

Arthur Dock Johnson

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

Avraham Jacobovitz

After spending a few years in the Mirrer kollel, the young couple moved to Detroit, where Rabbi Jacobovitz studied in the Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit.

Bethany Mooradian

From 2002-2006, Bethany taught Mystery Shopping classes through community education centers in the Detroit Metropolitan area using her book, Become a Mystery Shopper as the class textbook.

Bob Gentry

Bob Gentry was born in Detroit, Michigan and by the age of 7, was a self-taught pianist and guitarist who started songwriting and playing to express himself.

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 Gilliard

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

Détroit

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

Detroit, Texas

John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States, was born outside of Detroit but lived most of his life in Uvalde on the southern rim of the Texas Hill Country.

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.

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.

Felice Pazner Malkin

Pazner Malkin conceived, researched, and designed the documentary exhibition "Jewish Figurative Art: The First 3000 Years", which went on display in 1996 at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in 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.

Fort Shelby

Fort Shelby (Michigan), a military installation in Detroit, renamed from Fort Lernoult in 1813, and also commonly referred to as Fort Detroit during the War of 1812.

George Waldbott

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

Harinath Policharla

Dr. Policharla completed his residency in Neurology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy.

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.

J. J. Barnes

J. Barnes (born James Jay Barnes, November 30, 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B singer.

James E. Talmage

He went to Detroit in November of that year to participate in diggings connected with general Scotford-Soper-Savage relics craze that involved the finding of supposed ancient relics in much of Michigan.

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.

Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 9, 1960; he is a 1978 graduate of Mackenzie High School.

Klaus von Dohnányi

He then moved to Ford Motor Company, the car manufacturer, working for the company in both Detroit and Cologne where he was head of the Planning Division.

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).

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Rev. Reed served the following appointments as Pastor of Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Churches in the State of Michigan: Gaines, Onaway, Redford, the Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church in Detroit, Ypsilanti, and the Nardin Park Church in Detroit.

Marvin Winans Jr

Marvin Winans Jr is an American singer and producer from Detroit, Michigan.

Maurice Taylor

The athletic forward, from Henry Ford High School in Detroit, burst onto the national scene during the 1994 Maui Invitational with fellow freshman Maceo Baston.

Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal

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

My Excuse

This would be their second tour across the US, only this time they are going to visit some of the largest cities in North America such as New York, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, South Dakota, Florida and play more than 30 live performances.

Nedra Pickler

Pickler was hired by the Detroit offices of Associated Press shortly after graduating from Michigan State University.

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.

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.

Pfadt Race Engineering

After engineering school Aaron Pfadt headed straight to Detroit to begin his career at General Motors.

Richard LeBlanc

LeBlanc won easily in the heavily Democratic 18th District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the Detroit suburb of Westland.

Riverview Park

Riverview Park (Detroit), "unofficial" name for Electric Park, a former amusement park

Robbie Ribspreader

Robbie Ribspreader was born on August 31, 1977 in Detroit City.

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 Tell

In his pre-writing career, Tell held senior management positions at hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Kansas City and Detroit.

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.

S. Anantharamakrishnan

Anantharamakrishnan iyer is highly regarded for his business acumen and is credited with a large-scale increase in the production of automobiles in Chennai city that have earned Chennai, the epithet "Detroit of India".

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Anantharamakrishnan is remembered for his successful business practices, efficient management of the labour unions and for triggering the growth of the automobile industry of Chennai which has earned the city the epithet "Detroit of India".

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.

Stan Heath

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.

Thomas Demery

Thomas T. Demery (born July 18, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the Reagan presidency.

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.

Wimmersperg Spz

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

WJMY

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


1948 NFL season

The last regular season game played on Wednesday until the 2012 season happened on September 22, 1948 between Detroit and Los Angeles.

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.

1987 American League Championship Series

In what would turn out to be the last postseason game ever played at Tiger Stadium, the Twins would send Blyleven to the mound to face the Tigers' Doyle Alexander.

1990 NBA Playoffs

Game 4 @ Chicago Stadium, Chicago (May 28): Chicago 108, Detroit 101

Amyre Makupson

That same year, Makupson was hired by WGPR-TV, the nation's first African American owned television station, to anchor Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show Porterhouse.

Baptist Bible Fellowship International

In 1948, George Beauchamp Vick (Norris' co-pastor in Detroit, Michigan) became president of the World Baptist Fellowship owned Bible Baptist Seminary of Fort Worth, Texas.

Bob Losure

Earlier on, he was one of the 20/20 News anchors during the "Big 8" years at CKLW radio in Windsor / Detroit.

C. Michael Armstrong

C Michael Armstrong (born 18 October 1938, in Detroit, Michigan) is the former AT&T chairman and CEO, who tried to reestablish AT&T as an end-to-end carrier.

Clara Smith

In 1933 she moved to Detroit, Michigan, and worked at theaters there until her hospitalization in early 1935 for heart disease, of which she died.

David MacKenzie

David L. Mackenzie (1860–1926), first Dean of Detroit Junior College

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 Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Detroit-Oxford

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

Detroit's Marwil Bookstore

Marwil Bookstore was last located at 4870 Cass Avenue (corner of Cass and Warren avenues) in the Midtown area of Detroit on Wayne State University’s main campus.

Dom O'Grady

O'Grady attended Grosse Pointe South High School in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and then attended Wayne State University.

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).

Gerry McGovern

In 1978 McGovern began working for Chrysler in Highland Park, near Detroit, before returning to the UK as a Senior Designer for Chrysler/Peugeot; here he worked alongside Peter Horbury (later Head of Design for Volvo in Sweden) and Moray Callum (formerly Head of Design for Mazda, then Director of Ford’s Car design division).

Gil Hill

He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Detroit against Kwame Kilpatrick in the 2001 election.

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.

Howard A. Coffin

He worked as a representative for the book publishers, Ginn & Co., 1901-1911; controller, Warren Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1911-1913; manager, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of Michigan, 1913-1918; secretary, Detroit Pressed Steel Company, 1918-1921; assistant to president, Cadillac Motor Company, of Detroit, 1921-1925; vice president and later president, White Star Refining Company, 1925-1933; general manager, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, 1933-1946.

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.

Jon Petrovich

Petrovich began as a reporter for WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving on to become assistant News Director for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan.

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.

Lawrence Roehm

In 1929, the company was taken over by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Roehm at that point became employed by Jones & Laughlin as the assistant manager and, starting in 1938, manager of the company's Detroit warehouse operation.

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.

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.

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).

Rodger Beckman

He attended the Muskegon Community College and was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 9th round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft (126th overall).

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. John Riverview Hospital

It was located on Jefferson Avenue in the east side of Detroit, near Belle Isle.

Stoney Case

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

The All-Knighters

At WrestleMania 23 in Detroit the All-Knighters were hired by WWE to be Donald Trump's head shaving testers.

The Pingry EP

The EP features various rough demos of songs that would later be featured on their first full-length album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as well as two live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan (one of which was merely a banter track), and one recorded live on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan.

Tiger Stadium

Comerica Park, Detroit, the present home of Detroit Tigers baseball team

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."

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.