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62 unusual facts about Detroit


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.

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.

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 Gilliard

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

Carlos Gutiérrez Ruiz

Has undertaken several specializations such as Foundry Technology in Detroit, Michigan (1990) and the Transformation of Small and Medium-Sized Firms in Yokohama, Japan (1993).

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

Detroit-style pizza

In 2009, both Buddy's Detroit-style square pizza and Luigi's "the Original" of Harrison Township, Mich were singled out as two of the 25 best pizzas in America by GQ magazine food critic, Alan Richman.

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.

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.

Detroit's Most Wanted

After watching an episode of America's Most Wanted Brandon Greene suggested the group change their name to "Detroit's Most Wanted" referencing to the both America's Most Wanted List and the California rap group Compton's Most Wanted.

Eusebius A. Stephanou

On September 17, 1950 Stephanou was ordained a Deacon at St. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Detroit.

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.

Frank Douglas Garrett

Frank Douglas Garrett a graduate of Mackenzie High School in Detroit was an all-star basketball player and was selected as an All-PSL player in 1961 and 1962.

Fred Bridges

His parents Thomas Jones and Clara Law moved to Detroit as part of the Great Migration.

George Waldbott

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

Gerald C. Meyers

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

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.

Jango Edwards

Edwards grew up in Detroit, where his family owned a successful landscaping business.

Jerry Dumas

Born in Detroit, Dumas started drawing cartoons when he was nine years old.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lewis R. Fiske

In 1863, Fiske entered the ministry for the Methodist Episcopal Church, served as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal in Jackson, 1863–66; of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, 1866–69; and of the First Methodist Church in Ann Arbor, 1869–72.

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

In December 1994, Lowell and Roberta Amos attended a company executive party at the Atheneum Hotel in Detroit.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Presidents' Athletic Conference

The PAC was founded in 1955 by the presidents of Western Reserve University (1955-1967), Case Institute of Technology (1955-1970), John Carroll University (1955-1988) and the University of Detroit.

Richard LeBlanc

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

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".

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.

Sorority Girls

The focus of the stories were on the members of the "Pearl" sorority at William Howard Taft High school, which was located in Kenilworth, Michigan, a fictitious suburb of Detroit.

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

The hardwork and the generosity of Missouri, Chicago and Detroit provinces, raised Patna mission soon to a vice-province and then in 1962, to an independent province.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1984–85 New Jersey Nets season

Game 2 @ Joe Louis Arena, Detroit (April 21): Detroit 121, New Jersey 111

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.

Allen Martin

Martin is affiliated with Dunamis Outreach Ministries Worldwide International, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, NFBPA (National Forum for Black Public Administrators), Eastern Michigan Black Alumni Association, Detroit Public Schools Drug Free and Community Advisory Committee and the Michigan Association of Youth Serving Agencies.

America's Thanksgiving Parade

Over the years, several other well-known personalities were commentators for the Detroit parades, including John Amos, Ned Beatty, Kathy Garver, Captain Kangaroo host Bob Keeshan, Linda Lavin, Esther Rolle and Andrew Stevens.

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.

Back Porch Video

It premiered on January 28, 1984 as the brainchild of Russ Gibb, former owner of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.

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.

Carl Powell

He played high school football at Kettering High School in Detroit.

David MacKenzie

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

Deon Estus

Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus, 1956, Detroit, Michigan) is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on the latter's first two subsequent solo projects.

Detroit Race Course

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

Élisabeth Ballet

2010 : Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA ; Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA ; MONA Museum of New Art - Detroit's Contemporary Museum, Pontiac, USA ;

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.

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.

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.

Indiana State Road 13

This was part of the route that Eastern settlers, having crossed the lakes to Detroit, used after they disembarked to travel south into Indiana.

J. J. Barnes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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."

Veterans Memorial Building

UAW-Ford National Programs Center, Detroit, Michigan, a building that may possibly also be known as Veterans Memorial Building

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.

Walter Briggs, Jr.

Though Briggs wanted to keep his ownership of the Tigers and of Briggs Stadium, family estate administrators ordered both sold in 1956.

WETR

Because it shares the same frequency with WJR in Detroit, Michigan, WETR operates during the daytime hours only.

World Socialist Party of the United States

As of September 2008 it has members scattered throughout the United States, including Local Branches in Boston and Portland, as well as a regional Branch in the area encompassing Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.

Yale Lary

Lary played in the defensive backfield alongside Jack Christiansen and Jim David on "Chris' Crew" in the early 1960s, when Detroit was one of the best pro teams of the era.