Category: Detroit History

April 30 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

What Ho, Flapper?

She’s the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of her time: free-spirited, impulsive, flighty and elusive. Highly…

December 2 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

It’s coming up on Repeal Day again. That is, the official National Repeal Day. Since…

August 26 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

Let’s take a trip to Old Detroit. Fair warning: there may be a bit of…

Earlier today, to my shock and dismay, I used the Word Thesaurus tool just to try…

December 3 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

On Saturday, December 16, 1933 Michigan Governor William Comstock returned to his Detroit hotel after…

November 29 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

Repeal Day WOOHOO! Even while I’m gearing up for all sorts of fun events to celebrate National Repeal Day on…

October 31 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

It’s 1:30 pm on Halloween as I write this, so let’s pause for a moment…

UPDATE 6/27: I just got off the phone with Tony Nichols, property manager for the…

Ladies and gentlemen, for your edification today I present to you a most revolutionary, equalizing…

March 30 / Mickey Lyons / Detroit History

Happy anniversary to Prohibition Detroit! It’s hard to believe I launched this site a year…