Detroit is widely known for its unique historic architecture, boasting a surplus of both commercial and residential structures built with a precision and intricacy of design of the sort that is increasingly hard to find anywhere else in the United States. These buildings have many stories to tell about the growth and evolution of Detroit, […]
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Recently, America said goodbye to radio icon Casey Kasem, longtime host of “American Top 40.” (Maybe some of our younger readers will recognize him as the voice of “Shaggy” on the Scooby Doo cartoons.) What’s the connection to the El Moore, you ask? As with the Green Garage, part of the research we’ve done on
The El Moore which is in Midtown, which used to be the Cass Corridor, which is in Detroit, which is in Michigan. The point being that there are so many different lenses through which to view the El Moore and the surrounding neighborhood. History is not a single stream, and nothing/no one exists out of context.
Listening in on Cass history… Read More »
It’s hard to designate any one specific point as the definitive place to start when digging into and unraveling the history of the El Moore, so I’m just diving into the deep end of the river and grabbing onto passing items of interest to see where they take me. Charles W. Moore, who constructed the El
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It was pouring rain. The kind of rain where you park your car in a certain location, perhaps only a block away. You are relatively dry when you step out of your car, but by the time you reach your destination, you look as if you have been deep sea diving in all of your
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So the thing I want to know now is how and when did A.C. Varney meet up with Charles W. Moore, and what was the nature of their relationship in the creation of the El Moore? One question leads to another question, which might lead to an answer, but then that answer leads to another
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Youth is overrated. Look, I’ve seen pictures of those younger buildings that have begun popping up around the neighborhood in recent years, causing so much head-turning commotion. The new Detroit is what I hear them saying. Frankly, I’m not impressed, and
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