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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12186-9. Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit 1701–2001. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2914-4. Bergnann, Luke (2008). Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City. University of ...
The ornate Spanish styled Hollywood Theatre (1927) at the corner of Ferdinand and Fort St. was demolished in 1963. [16] When the historic Hollywood opened, it was the city's second largest with 3,400 seats. [16] The Hollywood Barton theatre organ was saved and awaits restoration. [17]
The family moved to Detroit in 1924, where Hoffa was raised and lived for the rest of his life. He left school at the age of 14 and began working full-time manual labor jobs to help support his family. Hoffa married Josephine Poszywak, an 18-year-old Detroit laundry worker of Polish heritage, in Bowling Green, Ohio, on September 25, 1937. [5]
Growth in immigration increased after Detroit became a part of the United States and the Erie Canal had been constructed. Armando Delicato, author of Italians in Detroit, wrote that Italian immigration to Detroit "lagged behind other cities in the East". [1] In 1904 the City of Detroit had 900 Italians. [2]
Carol Wald, painter and illustrator (born in Detroit) Kurt Wenner, painter (born in Ann Arbor) Ezra Winter, muralist, born 1886, works include Canterbury Tales mural (1939), Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C. and murals in Guardian Building, Detroit (born in Traverse City)
Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town. Wayne State University Press, 1986. ISBN 0814318193, 9780814318195. Binelli, Mark. Detroit City is the Place to Be. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company (New York). First Edition, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5 (hardback version). Carrillo, Karen Juanita.
Filmed in Detroit, and possibly set in a surreal version of the city although this is never explicit. Low Winter Sun (TV). 2013. Mark Strong, Lennie James. Originally a British miniseries, the American remake is set, and was filmed, in Detroit. The Man, 2005. Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy. Set in Detroit but filmed in Ontario, Canada.
The church nave. The church design has been attributed to architect Leon Cocquard (27 September 1860 – 26 April 1923), who at the time was draftsman for Albert E. French (3 March 1848 Prince Edward Island [8] – 1 November 1927), [9] [10] and whose success led to further ecclesiastical commissions in the French Gothic style.