In the summer of 1996, just about a year out of grad school, I was hired by an event production company in West Bloomfield to manage their video department. As a photographer and someone who lives for exploration and adventure, commuting between Auburn, Alabama and New Orleans on the back roads was enjoyable, but not […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Hot Buttered: The Summer of ’69 on Livernois
TERRA-SHIRMA STUDIOS Over on Detroit’s northwest side of town sits a nondescript grey brick building upon the top of which is an eagle with open wings. This building was home of the famed Rainbow Records and Terra-Shirma Studios. Studio A – home of the Rainbow Records – is now a gas station at the […]
Public Grand Opening of the John D. Dingell Transit Center
The widely heralded high-speed rail project got some great acclaim as residents of Dearborn streamed into the brand new John D. Dingell Transit Center on Michigan Avenue just west of Evergreen. Designed to increase tourism and develop business in West Dearborn as well as spur growth for both the University of Michigan – Dearborn and […]
Digging Detroit – Episode 2: Rediscovering Detroit…One Bar at a Time
In Digging Detroit’s second episode, Pete and Tom climb aboard the Detroit Bus Company’s Prohibition Tour as they examine how bars with links deep in Detroit’s history are helping metro-Detroiters rediscover their city. Special guest, historian Mickey Lyons, shares her insight and research with the guys from inside The 2 Way inn, built by Civil […]
Going Going Gone: Demolition of the 40-year old North Park Plaza
On the gloomy overcast morning of December 14th, 2014, the former North Park Plaza Hotel and Office Building was razed to a pile of pulverized concrete and twisted metal in 8 seconds. Owned by Oakland Community College and deemed unfit for renovation, the 40+ year old building on 9 Mile Road in Southfield, Michigan, was worth less […]