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3 weeks ago | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
The improbable journey and accomplishments of the Detroit Tigers and their ace, Tarik Skubal, in 2024 will no doubt be remembered for years to come. Not only did one of MLB’s youngest teams come out of nowhere to win 31 of their last 44 games to make the playoffs, but Skubal, a 2018 ninth-round draft pick who overcame two arm surgeries, became a first-time All-Star and was baseball’s best pitcher. In fact, it was on his 28th birthday, Nov.
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3 weeks ago | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
1955 Seventy years ago, Detroit demonstrated that achieving both urban renewal and historic preservation was possible. To make way for a new civic center development while the since-demolished Ford Auditorium (left) was being constructed, over a four-month period, the 6 million-ton Mariners’ Church (center) was moved 800 feet eastward on a complex arrangement of steel rollers to the current location next to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel entrance.
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1 month ago | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
1991 For 55 years, from 1934 to 1989, Little Harry’s restaurant at 2681 E. Jefferson Ave., known for its classic American cuisine and piano bar, provided a popular fine-dining experience for loyal patrons including visiting celebrities and corporate titans. Built in 1850 as the home of Alexander Chene, the rare Federal-style brick residence was renovated in 1902 before it became a University of Detroit fraternity house.
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2 months ago | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
1957 Pioneering Detroit radio and TV broadcasting legend Robin Seymour (born Seymour Samuel Altman) is credited with introducing white audiences to Black R&B and rock ’n’ roll while helping to launch the careers of numerous performers, including Motown icons and Bob Seger.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
dbusiness.com | Bill Dow
When Eugene Gargaro announced in May 2023 that after 20 years he was stepping down as board chair of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the bar was set high for anyone moving into his shoes.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
On the last leg of the one-hour tour at the Motown Museum on West Grand Boulevard, where generations of music fans from around the globe make pilgrimages to see where Berry Gordy Jr. created an assembly line of stars and hits, the best is saved for last. Patrons are typically awestruck when they quietly and rather reverently take four steps down onto hallowed ground, the tiny Motown Studio A that was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from 1959 to 1972.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
msn.com | Bill Dow
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Bill Dow
Rocky Colavito, the wildly popular and powerful slugger for the Detroit Tigers in the early 1960s, died on Tuesday at age 91 in Bernville, Pennsylvania, after a long illness. During his four years with the Tigers as the cleanup hitter, Colavito slugged 139 home runs and knocked in 430 runs, averaging 35 homers and 107 RBIs a season. In 1961, the best year of his 14-year career, Colavito belted 45 homers and drove in 140 runs.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
1949 Following the end of World War II, a number of memorials dedicated to those who sacrificed their lives in the name of freedom were established throughout the United States, including The War Memorial in Grosse Pointe Farms. The building was formerly the Russell A. Alger Jr. mansion, named “The Moorings,” and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On the banks of Lake St. Clair, this Italian Renaissance-style villa designed by New York architect Charles A.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
hourdetroit.com | Bill Dow |Christina Clark
One hundred years ago on Nov. 27, 1924, the Michigan Thanksgiving Parade (now known as America’s Thanksgiving Parade) first took place on Woodward Avenue. And thus began a beloved holiday tradition of families bundling up in the cold in downtown Detroit to watch colorful themed floats, clowns, and marching bands pass by while waiting for the arrival of Santa Claus at the conclusion, when he receives the key to the city from the mayor.
