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2 unusual facts about Animal Cops: Detroit


Animal Cops: Detroit

The show won "Outstanding Reality Program" at the 2003 Genesis Awards, an award show sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States that highlights media contributions to animal rights causes throughout the world.

It takes place in Detroit, Michigan, home of the Michigan Humane Society (MHS), and focuses on the exploits of five animal cruelty field agents and the staff physicians and animal evaluators at the MHS.


Alger Theater

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

Animal Cops: Houston

The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Black Bottom, Detroit

An adjacent north-bordering area known as Paradise Valley contained night clubs where famous Blues, Big Band, and Jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie regularly performed.

Brightmoor, Detroit

Organizations in the neighborhood include Brightmoor Community Center, Motor City Blight Busters, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Northwest Detroit Neighborhood Development, The Detroit Partnership, NexusDetroit and 28 other area businesses, community centers, and churches.

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.

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

In 1978, the city of Detroit leased the museum a plot of land in Midtown near the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Detroit Science Center.

Delray, Detroit

Much of Delray consists of riverfront industries, interspersed with residential properties, mostly single-family and duplex houses.

Eliza Howell Park

Eliza Howell Park is a public park in Brightmoor, Detroit, Michigan.

Heidelberg Project

It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey ("Grandpa Sam") as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black Bottom area.

Hubbard Farms, Detroit

Bela Hubbard, a prominent local geologist and realtor, is the man for whom the district is actually named.

Legend of the Octopus

The practice started April 15, 1952 when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an octopus into the rink of The Old Red Barn.

MorningSide, Detroit

It opened its doors on August 22, 1935 to roughly 1200 excited Detroiters who lined up eagerly for a viewing of “The Girl from Tenth Avenue” starring Bette Davis.

Riverview Park

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

Southwest Detroit

It comprises several neighborhoods including Delray, Mexicantown, Hubbard Farms, Detroit, Boynton-Oakwood Heights, and Springwells Village.

University District, Detroit

African-American families began moving into the University District in the 1960s, depicted on stage in Palmer Park, a play by Joanna Glass, who lived in the neighborhood during that time.

Woodbridge, Detroit

Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. - Detroit City Council member, former mayor of Detroit and City Council President

Sixto Rodriguez ("Rodriguez") - Folk musician and subject of Academy Award winning movie Searching for Sugar Man


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