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Detroit’s salty underbelly
Every city has its spooky subterranean secrets: abandoned subway tubes, sewers, crypts. But salt caverns full of dead mules? Only in Michigan. Beneath the city of Detroit lie miles of sparkling sodium tunnels. Native peoples have been harvesting salt near… Read More
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Belle Isle, Detroit’s greatest escape
Belle Island has always been Detroit’s favorite place to show off. Cross the Macarthur Bridge into the park, and you enter a parallel world. Back when the city was rich in heavy industry, Belle Isle already boasted the standard urban… Read More
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Fairyland: the magic key that started it all
Long before Disneyland opened its gates, Children’s Fairyland was inviting Oakland kids to enter a world of imagination on the shores of Lake Merritt. And its famous Magic Keys became familiar to magic-seekers across the country. A few years later,… Read More
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Detroit’s Kronk Gym swings back
Back in the 80s, Detroit’s Kronk gym didn’t just turn out champions. It brought team spirit to a sport that was hardly known for collaboration. Our Kronk design features Thomas “Hitman” Hearns Thanks to trainer Emanuel Steward, the gym’s bare-bones… Read More
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Faygo – the pop heard round the nation
In the early 1900s the Feigenson brothers arrived in Detroit with a thirst, a business plan, and some Russian family recipes for fruit-flavored cake frosting. The soda company they started — Faygo — soon became a Michigan institution. It’s also… Read More
