BOOK RELEASE PARTY! We've finally got a date for the release party for our book, "Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins"! We're set for Sept. 16 at City Bird in Midtown Detroit. You can RSVP and get more details here. Thanks for your support!
08/31/2010
08/26/2010
NEW MONUMENT ADDED: We've added a history, photos and historical images of the Alpheus Starkey Williams Monument on Belle Isle. Learn about this majorly mustachioed Civil War hero and his trusty steed, Plug Ugly the Horse.
08/24/2010
NEW PLACES: We continue our building blitzkrieg with new photo and postcard galleries and brief histories of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Alexander Macomb Monument and the Empire Building. The histories are brief and we promise to give you more soon, but right now we're trying to get as many places and galleries up as we can.
The Detroit Times not only gave the city's Times Square its name, but it also helped to usher in the golden age of newspapering in Detroit. Add in a room full of chain-smoking journalists, a horse, 3 a.m. telegrams and a jaw-dropping Art Deco beauty by renowned master Albert Kahn, and you have a story fit for the front page.
The Times was first published on Oct. 1, 1900, as Detroit Today, but legendary newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst added it to his growing nationwide empire in 1921. The paper would grow to be the afternoon daily in the city and featured some of Detroit's top newspapermen. Among them: Ray Girardin and Jim Trainor, two men who would later join Mayor Jerome Cavanagh's team - and found the calamity of putting out a newspaper was nothing like the calamity of a riot. The newspaper was bought and closed by the Detroit News 50 years ago this November. The building was razed in 1978 for a parking lot. The site once home to the rattling hum of giant newspaper presses has been the site of rattling mufflers ever since.
