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62 unusual facts about Détroit


Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi

Sindhi had a cardiac arrest in 2000, and was taken to William Beaumont Hospital in Detroit.

Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius

These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc.

Alger Theater

The Alger Theater is a theatre located at 16451 East Warren Avenue in the MorningSide neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.

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.

Arthur Ernest Bishop

These were significant and partly as a result, he was able in 1954 to move to Detroit, Michigan, USA, with ideas and patents to improve steering systems for automobiles, and for the next two decades introduced improvements into various vehicles around the world mainly in aspects of hydraulically powered and variable-ratio steering.

Bacari Alexander

Alexander was born in Detroit and played high school basketball at Detroit Southwestern High School.

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.

Booth Colman

Colman has played Scrooge hundreds of times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.

Brisker

John Brisker (born 1947, Detroit, Michigan), an American professional basketball player

Carl Carlton

Carl Carlton (born May 21, 1952, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)".

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.

Corey Fisher

Villanova was selected to play in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 versus the Kansas Jayhawks in Detroit, Michigan, in which Fisher scored 6 points along with 4 assists in the Wildcats' 72–57 loss.

D. Augustus Straker

He later moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he became the first black lawyer to appear before the Michigan Supreme Court.

DeJuan Wright

From Detroit, Wright attended Henry Ford High School and a Florida International University.

Détroit

The music was composed for Wajdi Mouawad's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes.

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

Detroit-Oxford

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

Detroit-style pizza

Outside of Detroit, Detroit-style pizza can be found in Austin, Texas, at Via 313 Pizza; Telluride, Colorado, at Brown Dog Pizza, which was founded by former Birmingham, Michigan, native and University of Michigan football player Jeff Smokevitch.

Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Rail Road

At the time of the merger, all three railroads existed mostly on paper, but on June 30, 1871, DL&LM opened the segment between Detroit and Plymouth, with the segment from Plymouth to Brighton following on July 1.

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.

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.

Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.

Eliza Howell Park

Eliza Howell Park is a public park in Brightmoor, 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.

Francis Travis

Born in Detroit, Michigan, his advanced musical studies were at the University of Zurich, with a Ph.D. in Musicology after writing a dissertation on Giuseppe Verdi.

Gerald C. Meyers

In 1962 Meyers was appointed Director of Purchasing for American Motors Corporation in Detroit.

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.

Hudsons

Hudson's, a defunct chain of retail department stores based in Detroit

J. J. Barnes

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

James Pennington

James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ and producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, United States.

Jim Daniels

James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and writer.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

John Lee Hooker, Jr.

Born in Detroit, Hooker was performing live on local radio stations by the time he was 8 years old, and toured with his father as a teenager.

Karl Knortz

He emigrated to the United States in 1863, where he engaged in teaching at Detroit 1864-1868, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1868–1871, and at Cincinnati 1871-1874.

Kenny Garrett

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

Kim Moody

From 1979 to 2001, Moody served on the staff of Labor Notes magazine in Detroit, which he helped to found in 1979.

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.

Marshall Russell Reed

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.

Matt McGloin

After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.

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.

Mobile phone signal

This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

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.

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.

Robert Leonard Ewing Scott

He was arrested a year later, on April 9, 1957, when Canadian customs authorities stopped him as he was re-entering Canada after a visit to Detroit to buy a car.

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.

Sean Day

His family relocated periodically before he was transferred to the Detroit area.

Sippie Wallace

In the 1930s, she left show business to become a church organist, singer, and choir director in Detroit, and performed secular music only sporadically until the 1960s, when she resumed her career.

Specs Howard

Specs Howard (born Jerry Liebman on April 8, 1926) is a radio pioneer who spent three decades entertaining audiences in Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.

Springfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan

It was a station on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway.

Stan Heath

He worked at Wayne State University in Detroit the following three years, including serving as associate head coach in 1994 when WSU set a school record for victories (25–5), helping the Tartars win two Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles with a trip to the NCAA Division II Final Four in 1993.

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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.

Stewart Francke

Stewart Francke (born September 15, 1958 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a singer/musician/songwriter in Detroit.

Tanya Boyd

Tanya Boyd (born March 20, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Celeste Perrault on Days of our Lives.

Terry Peake

Two years later, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he continued to play and study classical piano, as well as guitar.

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.

Water privatization in the United States

The experiences in Detroit provide some perspective on what happens with corrupt government related to public or private participation.

Westborn Market

Westborn Market is a small chain of produce-specializing supermarkets located in the Metropolitan Detroit area of southeast Michigan.

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


16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 16th Michigan Infantry was organized as Stockton's Independent Regiment at Plymouth and Detroit, Michigan between July and September, 1861.

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.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

David MacKenzie

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

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 Race Course

The Detroit Race Course was a horse racing facility in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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.

Dorothy H. Turkel House

Recently restored (at a reported cost of one million dollars) it is in the Palmer Woods neighborhood of Detroit, in north-central Detroit.

Everett Barksdale

Everett Barksdale (April 28, 1910, Detroit, Michigan - January 29, 1986, Inglewood, California) was an American jazz guitarist and session musician, Harold Vick's most used guitarist.

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.

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.

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.

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Thanks to a contribution from the United Auto Workers “The Hand of God” was recast and donated to the city of Detroit in honor of Frank Murphy, Michigan Governor and US Supreme Court Associate Justice.

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.

John Hoerr

Later he worked at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan, rejoined UPI for two years in Chicago, and served separate stints with Business Week, in Detroit and Pittsburgh, specializing as a labor reporter on the automobile, steel, and coal-mining industries.

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.

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.

Kaiser Broadcasting

WKBD in Detroit invested heavily in sports programming, securing rights to carry games of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, and other area college teams early in its history.

Kenneth Cockrell

:For the similarly named interim mayor of Detroit, see Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.

Lancaster, South Carolina

Aaron Robinson, was a professional Baseball Player with the Yankees and Detroit.

LGBT history in Michigan

Following the Stonewall riots six months before, a "Gay Meeting" was advertised to be held at the St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Detroit, a church which was known to be sociopolitically liberal in its orientation.

LoneStarCon 1

In a three-way race, Austin (393 votes) easily bested Detroit, Michigan (132 votes) and Columbus, Ohio (69 votes) as well as a single write-in vote for Highmore, South Dakota.

Mischief Night

In the 1994 film The Crow, based upon comic book of the same name, the protagonist, Eric Draven, and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding on "Devil's Night" by a street gang on the orders of Detroit's most notorious crime lord, Top Dollar.

Nellie Leland School

Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies.

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.

No More Good Days

As the episode closes, FBI Agent Janis Hawk makes a startling discovery: an image from CCTV in Detroit of a man in black, walking through the stadium while everyone around him is unconscious.

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.

Oscar Stanage

Stanage joined the Tigers in 1909 and eventually replaced Boss Schmidt as Detroit's regular catcher.

Reactions to the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 attack

The international flight originated in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, Netherlands and made an emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Siege of Fort Detroit

On May 28, a supply convoy commanded by Lieutenant Abraham Cuyler stopped at Point Pelee on its way to Detroit.

Stoney Case

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

Storer Communications

Although the company had success in the Top 40 rock and roll format with WJBK in Detroit and WIBG "Wibbage" in Philadelphia, most of its radio stations, including WJW and WSPD, featured more conservative music formats, typically middle-of-the-road (MOR) or beautiful music.

Sunny Anderson

Between 1995 and 2001 Anderson worked as a radio personality at KCJZ and KONO-FM in San Antonio, WYLD-FM and KUMX in Fort Polk, Louisiana, WJWZ in Montgomery, Alabama, and WDTJ in Detroit, Michigan.

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.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter.

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.

Walkerville, Ontario

The Tivoli Theatre (recently reopened Old Walkerville Theatre), is of 1920s art-deco design by C. Howard Crane (who would also design the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan).