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The Players Club of Detroit was founded in 1911 by a group of local Detroit businessmen as an institution to encourage amateur theater. [3] From the beginning, it was a strictly male club. [ 2 ] For the first 15 years of the club's existence, they were forced to perform in different venues each month, including the Detroit Athletic Club , the ...
The Jason Hargrove Transit Center (JHTC) is a major public transit station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.It is the third iteration of the State Fair Transit Center, located at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds, [1] near the Gateway Marketplace and intersection of 8 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.
M-102 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs along the northern boundary of Detroit following 8 Mile Road.The highway follows the Michigan Baseline, a part of the land survey of the state, and the roadway is also called Base Line Road in places.
William Tocco, known member of the Detroit Mafia; Walter Briggs Sr., owner of the Detroit Tigers [4] Al Cicotte, baseball player for the Detroit Tigers [5] Charles Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and noted radio commentator during the 1930s and 1940s [6] John Francis Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit, 1958–1980, created Cardinal in 1969 [7]
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
The owners of a Detroit beer store and bar with an unusual name, 8 Degrees Plato, said Monday on social media they plan to retire and close their business at the end of the year, a move that many ...
Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) drives the baseline as Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey (3) defends at BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...