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It's an unofficial holiday in Detroit as the Detroit Tigers celebrate the return of baseball to Detroit with their Home Opener today at 1:05pm. This is a photo from the 2009 Home Opener.
2009 was an exciting (and disappointing as far as Game 163 goes) year for the Detroit Tigers and with the new additions of Johnny Damon, Jose Valverde, Max Scherzer, fellow rookies Austin Jackson & Scott Sizemore, Brad Thomas, and Phil Coke the 2010 season should be a good one as well.
Just a quick note to let you know that we will be closed on Friday April 2, 2010 in observance of Good Friday. Also, our store will be closed April 7th & 8th. Online orders placed on these days will ship on the next business day that we are open.
Thanks & have a Great Day!
~ Andrew Norton, Owner
Gift Baskets From Michigan LLC
The Hotel Tuller was the first hotel built in the Grand Circus district. The original construction of the hotel was completed in 1906 and included nine floors. Four floors were added in 1914 so that dates this photo from 1914 to 1920.
Hotel Tuller was closed in 1976 and eventually demolished in 1992. Here is a look at the former Hotel Tuller's location today (marked by the number one)
re - qui - em: a mass for the dead
The BBC documentary, Requiem For Detroit?, clocks in at just under 75 minutes. There is about eight minutes at the end that focuses on the positives currently taking place and the hope for the future after a little over 65 minutes of negativity.
Intro to Requiem For Detroit -
Now I'm not saying the first 65 minutes are not warranted. They lay out the grit, racial tensions, politics, and greed that got Detroit to where it is today. You cannot fully understand why Detroit is in the shape it is in today if you don't look at the past. I found the historical parts of the documentary fascinating.
For instance, how could the "arsenal of democracy" have been so racially divided? We all hear about the 1967 riot, but there was also a race riot on the eve of World War II in 1943 that lasted for three days and resulted in 34 deaths - "twenty-five black residents and nine white residents."
Is it pleasant to look at the bad things that have happened to Detroit? No. However, you need to look at the mistakes of the past in order to not repeat them in the future and right now Detroit has the chance to sort of start over. I'm excited to see what the people of the city of Detroit can accomplish.
On a lighter note, here is a quote from an interview subject that had me rolling (in part for what he said and in part for his deadpan delivery) - Interviewer, "What's going on [talking about the current state of Detroit] here?" Interview Subject, "I don't know, I just woke up." In a city with this many people there was bound to be a few characters interviewed in this documentary.
The hope at the end of this documentary is, to me, the best part. Here is a clip -
"The old American Dream is dead, we're creating the new American Dream."
It is 63 and sunny today here in southwest Michigan and I am more in the mood for the 2010 Tigers baseball season than ever! I love this shot of the back of the giant scoreboard at Comerica Park (wow, I actually started typing Tiger Stadium and had to delete it). I plan on taking in a couple games this summer - can't wait!
Ever since the post counter showed 999 Total Posts I have been struggling to come up with something worthy of Post Number 1,000. Consequently, I haven't posted anything in a long time due to Post Number 1,000 staring me in the face and demanding a worthy tribute.
I decided to run a list of the Top Ten Posts here at the All Things Michigan blog. This humble little blog started back on November 10, 2005 with a post about The Leetsville Shoe Tree. I started this blog as an attempt to help do what I could to promote the state of Michigan.
Mind you, this was before the bottom fell out of the Michigan (and subsequently national) economy. This was back before it was trendy to outwardly support Michigan and before a slew of pro-Michigan websites (which I think are great!) sprang up. You could say that I was promoting Michigan when promoting Michigan wasn't cool (to borrow a phrase from a country song).
Without further ado, here are the Top Ten Posts at All Things Michigan:
