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"What she had to say. Do you feel closer to him when you're here? Oh yeah. My dad's been he died in 1979 with over 40 years he'd been I keep him here in my heart. He's always with me. But yeah, when I set up, especially up there in the grandstand. I can feel him close. And listening to him talk about him, I can feel him. You name the park after turkey Stearns. Now, it's been rededicated. What's the community reaction been? Wonderfully supportive. The city of hamtramck has had severe financial problems like the city of Detroit. It's been under emergency financial management several times in the past couple of decades. From the first time I spoke to the mayor of hamtramck and the city council back in 2010, when people were talking about demolishing the grandstand and I said, not a ham tremor resident. I'm not even a Detroit native, but nobody should put a bulldozer or a wrecking ball to that stadium without knowing the history. And the city council and the mayor were wonderfully supportive at always been supportive. And what's next for the park? Well, you know, we have active programming. There are games, baseball games going on almost every weekend. There's some vintage baseball games, senior men's hardball leagues, high school games. We want this to be a community asset. It was a community ballpark from 1940 until it was closed in 1997. It was a community asset. We want that to be a community asset again. The baseball and the history is what got us the money to rehabilitate the grandstand in the field, but the field and the Grand Slam belong to the people of hamtramck and they should use it the way they see fit for recreation. Well, I can tell you next time I'm in town, I'm going to stop by. I might bring my glove. Well, you're welcome to the field is not fenced. You can stand on the mound and look at the batter's box and think about satchel page pitching to Josh Gibson. That was Gary Gillette. He's the founder of the Friends of historic hamtramck stadium, and he was involved in the efforts to restore that
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"Are no longer on our board, but the three of us were all in it together at the start. Got it. And how did you get to know Ron? We all just got to know Ron and that was a pleasure, but I know you've known him for some time. That's a good question. I don't know when I first met Ron, probably either after one of the tigers Negro leagues, weekends of comerica park, or else at a function at the Detroit public library, which did several Negro leagues events, talks in 2000 6 to 2010 time frame. I moved the Detroit in 2005, and I started researching him Trevor stadium in 2008, so I would guess it was probably 2009 or ten. And how did he get involved with the efforts and the event I should note that you held an event the day after Juneteenth to dedicate the new restored stadium and ran was honored there. So how did he get involved in connection with these efforts? Well, you know, Ron is one of the few living Negro leaguers. I mean, the major Negro leaguers go into 48, of course, there are a lot of guys from the mid to late 50s, but they're not by major league definition, major league, and I think that's reasonable. I don't remember. I probably asked him to help out around 2014 after we got the historic marker installed. And he agreed to join our board which he did briefly and then he resigned because of health reasons. I believe family reasons. But we've been in touch ever since, and I consult with him on things. I've interviewed him several times. He's delightful guy. He tells good stories and his memory, ever since I met him while he would have been in his mid 80s when I met him. His memory then was better than a ball player was 55. You know, as you know, interviewing ballplayer as they love to tell you how they hit that three two curveball off this picture on this day with the bases loaded in the 9th inning to win the game and you go check and they got the year wrong, maybe the day is right, the inning is wrong. There were two runners on base. And maybe it was off a relief pitcher and not the starter they thought. But Ron's memory is good and he's got great stories. You know, he played in the major Negro leagues, he played in the minor leagues when the black players were you could count them on the fingers of a couple of hands and I was just looking before you dialed me that the olean New York paper where he played in the, I guess it was the pony league in 48. There was an article about him being released, saying that the club said they released him and Sammy G and other prospect from Detroit because following their policy that they weren't going to keep guys who were not thought of as prospects. They couldn't go higher. Yeah, he talked a bit about that. Yeah, and G was hitting three 21 and playing shortstop and I saw nothing indicating he wasn't adequate defensively at shortstop. Ron had was tied for the legally in home runs. Early in the season, it was only three, but there was nothing to indicate they couldn't play. They weren't, you know, 27 year old prospect monkeys. There was nothing to indicate they couldn't play if given a chance. And maybe they would have topped out at class a or maybe they would have made it to the majors, but who would know they caught him loose after less than half a season of a tryout in the New York pen league. So Ron was involved with the ballpark in the effort, but can you just describe for our listeners? What was the state of hamtramck before the restoration effort really got underway? Well, I had been researching the stadium from 2008 to 2010, and then in 2010 Nevada late 2009, the hamtramck newspaper printed an editorial saying, nobody plays baseball and hamtramck anymore. It was pretty much true. There was a high school baseball team, but the kids are mostly playing soccer or even cricket, Bangladeshi and their kids play cricket as well as soccer. And nobody's coming back and we should just tear what they call the grandstand down, and this is because the history of the stadium had been lost over the years. People, there were a few old timers. I interviewed a 95 year old guy at the time who remembered watching Negro league games there. He's now deceased, and there are a few other old timers remember the Negro league playing there, but not many, and so to them was just a hulk. It was fenced off. It had been fenced off a cyclone fence in 1997. I have to tell you I learned this last year from a friend of mine. The last event in hamtramck stating before they closed it off in 1997 was a rock concert called ham stock. Ham stock. You can't make this up. And apparently the promoter sold the city on supporting it and the city put some money into it. I don't know how much. And hardly anyone showed up and there were a lot of bad feelings and they closed the stadium down. Now they close it down for other reasons. But you know, that's just the kind of trivia that you just look at that and say, man, if I were writing a novel, I wouldn't that wouldn't be that inventive who played ham stock anyone notable. I don't think so. My knowledge of popular music and the long time before that. And Trevor does have an annual battle of the bands where they get 50, 60, a hundred bands to play and all the bars and ham tremors got a thriving bar club scene where local bands will play, but those are, you know, I'm not going out to the bar as much anymore. So it had been left there and it was, you know, in okay shape, this is the same thing with Tiger stadium when I worked on the Tiger stadium conservancy. People would say, well, the stadium's falling down. I would say, no, it's not. These buildings were designed to be out in the snow in The Rain. They were outdoor buildings. And so while the condition certainly deteriorates over time, it doesn't stay the same, nothing stays the same that gets older. It's not an imminent danger of collapse or anything. What it needed was money to renovate it and a purpose. And I have to say, I provided the purpose by talking about the Negro leagues history and I talked to the mayor of hamtramck in 2010 after that editorial and told her I said, I'm not a resident of hamtramck. I never have been. I live in Detroit. I'm not even Detroit native, but before you talk about knocking that down, you should know the history. She was very receptive. She was mayor and tola this January. And she asked me to talk to city council by talk to city council. They were very receptive and supportive, but hamtramck didn't have any money. I think at that time they were still under emergency financial management. If not, they had been under emergency management twice in the past ten, 15 years. They had no money so it was important to rally the troops and the first step to rallying the troops was, getting it on the National Register of Historic Places, which May and my two cofounders Rebecca had been O savage as a preservationist and Ian Perotta, who is a local activist which we did in 2012, and the national registers not prevent anyone from tearing down an historic site, its main value is you can not use any federal money to tear it on a National Register site. You can use private money, though, and plenty of historic sites have been demolished using private money, but it also gives you a moral cachet. It says this property has been certified by professional historians in the government. Now you have to trust the government here, which I do. Certified by professional stories having national significance. And we made that case and they agreed and two years later, we persuaded a state of Michigan to let us install historic marker on the site, and that gave us enough visibility to start going out and talking to people to raise money.
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"I think it's. I'm not sure if the restaurant that there is still going or not but there still is a restaurant in that space so that's a great patterned and very colorful terra. Cotta but you have to look up so you have to look above that storefront level. That's kind of just basic basic restaurant and then above that is the bar. yeah that wonderful patterned multicolored terra. Cotta us there. So we also as greg driving on on belial. Recently he pointed out the the lighthouse can't what what what the name of it was. But i do. Yeah but it's what is the only art deco lighthouse in the country and it's the only marble like in the country to i guess there's another countries there's some marble but anyway it's Yeah it was something very high quality materials and design put into these buildings that we have in detroit. Do stand out. Did you guys walk over to the lighthouse or you just cold. So we just drove by greg. Greg kind of pointed it out and mentioned that it was was the only art deco lighthouse in the country. But i know we're actually. I'll get to that soon. Because terry was my wife wanted to go see that so little drier out because it might be but it's again you find these little treasures. We went to the liquor store. Remember how to help each right. And i think the greatest neighborhood but then there's this architectural gem standing right there. Yeah that is a good one and so sometimes you have to look past that liquor. Lotto sinus plastered all over the first floor and and look look up above. And you'll see those great art deco details from you know back eighty years ago. We've even we've even mentioned in a in a previous podcast about just having people while you're walking down any street really especially in traffic. Just look up you. Just the details on on some of these buildings are just incredible whether they're deco or or not you know there's there's a lot of incredible detail on a lot of buildings just ended in hamtramck and in detroit and in general. There's so much that people don't really pay attention to for notice that same theme. We have some news. The broad canopy over on the lakefront arena the riverfront. There's a potential that being reused. Yeah so that's a great art deco building that has a wpa Murals on the inside. So i worked on getting that designated To the city of detroit historic district. Oh my gosh. It's like twenty years ago now. Defunct serrate now. The parade company is presented a proposal to Just keep the front of the building and demolish the portion with the murals. So i'm concerned because you know even though they've promised oh we'll save those bureau and it's you know how expensive it be for all these murals to in museum where we are right now to move somewhere i mean it's i think they just don't know how expensive that would be. So they're sort of promising that at this point without any professional evaluation so that we should point out. Those murals painted murals in grave. Murals yes and to try and preserve those. It'd be a far more challenging task..
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"Assembled with these kind of different cube shapes than at its corner. It had an addition that's gotta rounded curve so If you saw that building and it really stands out from the other average building surrounding it If you saw that building today would say wow. This is something different. Let's see another one in hamtramck is The and featured in the book is the entry to The buildings what do we call the public housing homes from on field. sharon counts. Thank you so the entry of the Public building there. I guess. I think it's just sort of used for. I know you can vote in that building. Probably just like administration office type stuff so that building has really are an art deco style. And it's got wonderful representational plaques going around the front door. I think the sign of the top says administration you betcha. The mosque on kenneth. Is that the one just That would be just west of joseph. Capo okay right right off the alley okay. Just west of combo upright post offices of course included so our post office. If you serve stand back or maybe look at a picture. It's got sort of representations of columns kinda flat flat out columns across the front so that post office designed started minimalized and stripped down that of classical representation of old-fashioned post offices with collins. Kind across those are kind of our best examples in hamtramck what we look at detroit. It kind of pails. What we haven't detroit downtown. Now's a regional center in detroit. So in downtown detroit Some of our stars are the scott building so that is forty seven stories tall and uses that kind of setback skyscraper to sign. That really brought us into that. Realm of Architecture new york city and really used a lot of those buildings as inspiration or If they were going up at about the same time so all of that kind of new design was really getting around and really Yeah just popular throughout the country also Down the street is the guardian building. Beautiful guardian building. Which you know. One of the things about our book greg. I always regretted. We can do some pages in colored rulli for its color and you know the Any case the guardian building has a little bit of that kind of mayan mexican influence to the design and it's Again forty stories tall is just right. Down the street from the ponobscott and was designed as speculative commercial office space just as the pope. Scott building was but The bank that constructed it relieved put together a theme. So you could go to the executive dining room and have your dishes. You'll you'd see the same design and colors as the building surrounding in the furniture and patterns throughout the building so those days they really had kind of a comprehensive themed guns that whole building. It's really really difficult to describe though because as you said the colors are so incredible and the design. You'll even the elevators of details in there are just. It's almost overwhelming. I think it is considered isn't one of the finest examples absolutely off on the country. Absolutely it's it's a national historic landmark. And so it's really right up there with buildings in new york city in actually tulsa oklahoma has incredible art deco collection. Los angeles has spectacular.
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"And then the podcast hamtramck historical museum which we do in cooperation podcast detroit. I'm greg kurowski. The executive director of the hamtramck historical museum. And i'm here with joe. Course you joe hello hello. Has everyone doing today. Joe is the chairman of the board of the friends of historical half the organization that owns and operates the hamtramck historical museum today..
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"Cemetery when it opened on the farther east side which at that time was actually outside the borders of detroit and he died in all of his possessions were put in storage and they were destroyed mainly in the fire of eighteen. O five when the at the story detroit. Unfortunately there are no Paintings no are drawings. Not we don't really know what colonel have traffic light. There are few descriptions of him being somewhat comical figure it was said in the la- kind of comical riding his horse but he was very well respected man very well respected soldier and which did a very very good job so When he after he died. Detroit started to grow more and more came into traffic township and all through the nineteenth century the settlers. All detroit study growing and Starting next thing hamtramck township bit by bit by bit. The sanitation would actually continue on Long even after the city of hamtramck was formed that we're going to get to that in a bit too because that gets really kind of complicated about we city in a township a village and she could part some of those coexisting at the same time so we when you mentioned the the kind of township village city complication with that. We recently just looking at school board minutes from eighteen ninety eight and we were a little confused as to whether it was for the township of hamtramck or whether it was for the village of him traffic which we ended up figuring out that it was part of the village which was district aid at that point for four him traffic township. So it's kind of an interesting an interesting thing. And i'm sure at the at certain points. People probably confused you know whether whether they were living in a village or township that sort of thing yup absolutely so and there are a lot of What we call mysteries associated to that to some things that we have not been able to get specific answers to like how the borders hamtramck village were determined..
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"Had great respect for him. Sent colonel hamtramck and general wayne to detroit to remove the british from detroit. The british had stayed in detroit after the revolution they refused to leave. And the young american army and government was not strong enough to force them to leave. But at this point President washington was worried that the british were going to try and create another revolution in america in the united states. Yet you yes i did. I don't wanna touch. Id you're talking about about general washington president washington at the time and colonel traffic actually at the burton historical collection down at the detroit library down by wayne state they have actual letters from colonel hamtramck to president washington and i believe they also have some from president washington to colonel hamtramck as well also just kind of wanted to let people know. If you're interested you could actually go down and see some of these handwritten letters. You have to wear the the white gloves. But it's kind of a cool experience to hold it in your hands is really and there's a little sidebar to the all. This item we have in. The museum is from seventeen ninety three and it's a newspaper. Genuine newspaper and newspaper has the story about actions of colonel hamtramck at that time so the the actual newspaper is in our archives of storage safely. We have a copy though of it that is on the split in anybody can come and see and actually read that newspaper. And still to digress a little bit the idea that you can hold some of these things and look at them and realize that somebody else was holding this in their hands hundred years ago two hundred years ago and it meant something special to them. You make the connection with history and that's one of the things we like to promote here at the museum. I'm getting a little plug in for us. Now that we get people to come down here come on down down. it's free. You could actually see this for yourself. And there are not many many artifacts from a colonel hamtramck though because Well let me let me. Backtrack is getting a little handle myself here..
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"hamtramck" Discussed on Daily Detroit
"All grocery stores of the availability of vaccinations and the importance of getting their employees vaccinated to make sure this does not happen again unquote. I'd add that it's also a reminder that are essential workers are still on the front lines of a pandemic that isn't yet devon. Let's get started. There's a lot to talk about today. i part i think is gonna be about development. There is a new hotel coming down and a greek town residential tower coming in. I wanna talk about these little bit first. Let's unpack the hotel coming to cork town. They're actually gonna tear down the old detroit. Lions headquarters which i did not realize even though i live nearby i didn't know it either. You had no idea a low slung one story building. And actually kinda reminds me of the detroit city of c. headquarters in hamtramck for awhile..
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"Gradually this area grew probably because of the tracks and which russell started to bring some industry here pretty modest industry and Those early days 1893 acne white lead paint company opened up here. That was really the. I industry that was in hamtramck in this area because the village had been formed yet so But it did start the cluster of buildings coming up in this area here because of probably because it a try. We're still working on trying to find out exactly what happened. There are records are very scarce of that time of what was happening in this area but it would become a center of population to a certain degree And then Hull gosh about nineteen hundred. The areas was by that point. Let me step back again but eighteen ninety five. The first school was built in this area and that was hobart elementary school which originally was a wooden building but was quickly replaced by a brick building. And when that was expanded again around nineteen o six and then again in nineteen thirteen and that became a magnet for the area as well to hobart. Elementary of course is still operation. Today which is probably the oldest functioning school in the state of michigan. Mild elementary school. It's a it's a cool. Little place resilience survived you. Yeah this is true. Jail but yeah. It's pretty sturdy walls. We're working on getting a state historical marker for that bill. That's really important too so the industry steady growing in detroit is well to detroit started acquiring petition for For interesting for industry but beautiful architecture as well because somebody great neighborhoods that were growing up in detroit. Her deal for the detroit was turned down. Eighteen twenty s and replaced by city. Buildings has expanded to now did you. You mentioned him tram it kind of be well. What is current day. The city of hamtramck being a center of population were there any reasons. I don't. I don't know if we've ever found out track. Probably be the the the thing that brought them here because they crossed over in this area and this area was divided into farms. There were a number of farms here and just north of here is the old norse village which also became a senator population as well to they'll not the degree of amtrak and norris you know you can still see the firewalls which unfortunately was burned to a great extent but still is there and the all two way trade station..
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"Surprise i well. I was surprised that i coming into it. Because i sort of have that audacity where. I think that i'm interested in the story. So i thought that people would want to share their stories and want to be interviewed it. I think i took it. Because i was so new at interviewing people. Some people like you know. Pulitzer prize winning photographers and things like that did not want much to do with me. Because i'm just this little new newbie. So but they were all very nice and and that was to me. It was kind of like wait a second. I began just back up a little bit. You know you can't expect people to want to share with you all the time you know but on but you know terror yamasaki. I went to his house. I hit. He invited me into his house up. North and i had. He gave me coffee and we talked. He told me beautiful stories about his father and but he didn't want me to interview him but we could have talked all day. It was a flowing conversation. But i was. That was the stuff. I was surprised that they could talk to me all day. But they wouldn't want me to interview them. So i needed to build up more trust because they were out there so much already and i totally get that you know you're so exposed sort of want control over some things put out there. You know what i mean so f- got it. It's okay it's still cool. Is this your first book. I self published one of my novels. But i've been publishing articles poetry short stories. Things like bath for about six seven years now. So this is your first venture at the history living history my first book of nonfiction and i have come full circle because i was a history major wrong so to be in the archives again and now i'm writing articles for metro mode for historical historic preservation and And that i'm in the archives. The it's awesome the actually using my degree. You know well you struck a very good balance though. That's what's really kind of struck me with the book to 'cause there's a lot of facts and figures in there but you're not overwhelmed by them. This is that human side of the story is what really really shines through an makes this book standout. It's a very very well done So is that encourage you to try some more on this topic..
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"But at this point President washington was worried that the british were going to try and create another revolution in america in the united states. Joe yes. I did kinda wanna touch. Id you're talking about about general washington aero president washington at the time and colonel traffic actually at the burton historical collection down at the detroit library down wayne state they have actual letters from colonel hamtramck to president washington and i believe they also have some from president washington to colonel hamtramck as well so just kinda wanted to let people know. If you're interested you could actually go down and see some of these handwritten letters you have to wear the the white gloves and all. But it's kind of a cool experience to hold that in. Your hands is really fast. And there's a little sidebar to the oldest item we have in. The museum is from seventeen ninety three and it's a newspaper genuine newspaper And newspaper has the story about the actions of colonel hamtramck at that time so the the actual newspaper is in our archives of storage safely. We have a copy though of it that is on display and anybody could come and see and actually read that newspaper. And still to digress a little bit the idea that you can hold some of these things and look at them and realize that somebody else was holding this in their hands hundred years ago two hundred years ago and it meant something special to them. You make the connection with history and that's one of the things we'd like to promote here at the museum. I'm getting a little plug in for us. Now we get people to come down here come on down down. it's free. You could actually see some of this for yourself. And there are not many many artifacts from a colonel hamtramck though because Well let me let me. Backtrack is getting a little ahead of myself here. But anyways colonel. Hamtramck and general wayne james to detroit and seventeen. Ninety-six forced to british out and the americans took over detroit. Colonel hamtramck built a little log cabin on the detroit river on the riverbank. Overlay bella close to belle and In seventeen ninety eight the first hamtramck township was created and it was named out of after colonel. Have traffic out of And respect for what he had done for this area and the original hamtramck township stretch from the detroit river to baseline base. Line is eight mile road. Although in western wayne county you can still find areas where it is called baseline yet and That did from woodward avenue. All the way through the gross points to lake saint clair. That whole area was traffic. Township detroit was a small city right next to the township But it was a very rural area. All everything in colonel have challenged these were pretty much down by the river. Front and jefferson avenue was dean road there and there was not a of rounded as well to it was pretty much wilderness..
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"hamtramck" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"Keep that in mind and we'll be repeating that quite a bit more It was a wonderful. It is a wonderful building. It was a wonderful building but it had a lot of problems and we have steadily been improving the building and modernizing it and making it more attractive and more more useful as a museum That's physically what we've been doing. We've also been doing some really exciting things in terms of program in different kinds of programming. We've done programming for the general public. A lot of that is suspended now. Obviously because of the cova pandemic we will be resuming that Those are very popular. We want to get back doing our hudson's at christmas program and so many the other powerpoint presentations and dinner programs that we've done over time and That's one exciting aspect. That's really a fun aspect of things that we do here as well too but we also do a lot of professional work to We're working with the hamtramck public schools right now in developing a curriculum on history and art into schools in hamtramck that we can present an schools. joe is working very hard on the history program jordan shaquille little rundown of that. Yes so that is a actually a national history day events where students from throughout the country take a certain subject or a certain theme that The history day Coordinators come up with and like this year is i believe it's communication. I'm actually going to be judging this weekend. So got stuff to actually look into but Yeah so it's students. From throughout the country for different schools and the schools they go to districts and in for district's two states and states to nationals. I'm not sure exactly. How many kids we had a nationals last year from michigan. But but yeah it's it's great and it's it's really awesome to see some of these projects that these kids put together. Some of them are just kind of mind blowing actually last year at one of the events that i judged they there was someone who made a jukebox out of out of i believe cardboard and wood and it was made it to like a record player to They were actually. Their project was on motown so they did that. And then they had records on the side of it. You can push a button. It would play the song so i mean just seeing some of the creativity to from the students and just the things that they do. It's pretty incredible. It's a. I think it's great and i'm looking forward to doing it. So it's so encouraging when you see the kids are doing and what they're capable of doing i am i. I've been pretty amazed. Frankly at some of the things that are happening in school district here just to give you a little little antidote. I was invited once not too long ago to do a presentation at talbot school to a group of middle schoolers and it was a mixed group and the idea was to give a history of hamtramck and The was going to be an hour program. We never really got into the story of the history of how traumatic because turned almost immediately into qna session and the kids. I was so these are middle schools..
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"hamtramck" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"Joey who i pulled it summer. Yeah yeah you're bosnian lady neighbor. She's i call her the general because she wants everything done her way. She doesn't speak doesn't speak english. Points tells you what to do. But she's great. She's awesome cheese. When i was doing some work for ya and told me what to do. So yeah somehow we managed to figure it out. We do sign language and we learn that we get the job done. Yeah that's that's the beautiful. The beautiful thing about the city is that you don't have to speak the same language as somebody else to kind of understand what they're talking about you know or even if even if they do speak broken english you know like growing up in hamtramck. I always tell people who are from the city who listen to someone who who speaks broken english there. How do you understand them. It's like well growing up at ham traffic. There are so many people who don't speak the greatest english and you. It's kind of a skill you acquire of just trying to figure out exactly what they're saying. Is i enjoy it. I enjoy learning from other people and die learning about their cultures especially food so teaches you about people in a way to that you can communicate you. Hang to understand somebody even if they're from a different country and don't speak your language and different customs when you get underneath all of that you find at the our people and people are are just people so we're gonna meet a lotta those as we go forward on this journey into the past here too so We we can. I guess we could plunge into starting in through it now and we'll pick it up again in the next episode of the series. But it's i don't want this to be entirely a lesson in history though i'd like to get comments from people. You could comment to us and express your opinion either on facebook and instagram degraded questions or or ideas..
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"hamtramck" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"Welcome to hamtramck now and then you podcast to the hammock historical museum. I'm greg kurowski. The executive director of the museum and with us today as jell cashew to is the chairman of the board of the friends of historic hamtramck which owns and operates the museum and today we have a special guest with us. It's free aunt her chin ski. Who is the author of the new book. Detroit's loss poll town and to subtitle little neighborhood that touched a nation. It's a fascinating story and brand also little hall. You would attracted you to this topic in the first place. How First of all. Thanks for having me. New nurse podcast. This is awesome. I you know. I went down with my husband to a estate sale in Indian village and it's in. The story is kind of in the prologue. But i was really drawn to the stained glass window and i felt like i couldn't leave the state sal without buying this window. I don't know what it was like an other worldly poll to this window and what really drew me was The middle part of it said god build a his holy temple and it was just beautiful stained glass very old and so i went ahead and bought it and when i took it to a stained glass curator guy that would help me restore it. He well they told me when i bought it from poll town church and i didn't know what poll town was right and so when i took it a saint glass guy. He's like you gotta figure out what churches came from because that would just be interesting. You know he takes stink. Lhasa churches all the time at detroit for him. That would be a really cool thing. And so I went home. And i just became obsessed with this story. I was up till midnight looking at pictures and going through the internet and Kept seeing all of the photographs of protests and just it was just it just took swept me up and it started to transform me and a just was caught up in it and so i was determined the next day to go and get a book called Poll paul town community trade and so the library had it my library in rochester and the same day. When i woke up the record came which is our piscopo. Newsletter occupational diocese michigan and. I go to the church. So i get this record. Every it's like a quarterly thing. And i usually don't really read it. I pick it up and maybe glance at a couple things and but this time i opened it up in there as they There is a story about a woman who had passed away and When i went to go pick up the book about whole town it was the same woman who had died. It just seemed to so there were a lot of different coincidences. And i just was pulled to it for the passion out of my heart actually at the bad junction And i don't think it's a very emotional story for one thing and you know. This is a very powerful story poll town. Of course the neighborhood that was demolished to make way for general motors plant in detroit and hamtramck back in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and it displaced was something like fourteen hundred homes and several churches and.
WJR 760
"hamtramck" Discussed on WJR 760
"Weather pattern will bring another round of rain, snow and ice from Texas to New England right behind the storm system that brought records no dangerous cold and accumulating ice. Two million's across the southern Plains. The dome of Arctic air that has spread as far south as the Gulf Coast will continue before things start to moderate a little bit. On Wednesday, wind chill warnings are up where real field temperatures will dip. To dangerous levels below zero. The next round of wintry weather will spread over the southern Plains, bringing measurable snow and ice pandemic and snow Storm can't stop punch Key day in Hamtramck at the new Martha Washington Bakery, Sandy Blockage says things are different this year. But the tradition of good food and good will continues. We used to be open all night. Issue we had to close. And reopen it. 3 A.m.. My customer thought that we're pulling all nighter this year again, and we're broke tradition after 25 years. Social distancing. We have to close down this insect. We had to close them because of curfew enforcement. It's very different this year Buckets. Speaking to Paul W. Smith, president Biden hopes to give some early to homeowners as part of his American rescue plan with some of the details. Here's Rachel Sutherland's Biden is sending a moratorium on foreclosures through June. The current pause was set to expire the end of March. The federal government is also giving people behind a mortgage payments until the end of June to apply for for Barents. Giving them an additional six months to defer notes. Renters could still be vulnerable because the actions do not address a ban on evictions set to expire March 31st. The president's $1.9 trillion relief plan includes a $10 billion Homeowner Assistance Fund for states. Rachel Sutherland boxes and checking the World Market Update this morning. We are looking at a continuing trend upward across the board for WJR News. I'm Marie Osborne. Well. W. Smith will be back in.
Bernie and Sid in the Morning
GM is working on an all-electric work van to build at Detroit-Hamtramck plant
"General Motors is planning to make an electric van designed to be used by United parcel service Amazon and other businesses Reuters says GM is not confirming the new model so far electric car company Tesla is not producing delivery vans GM's van has been code named the B. V. one GM is expected to start production late next year building it along with electric trucks at GM's Detroit Hamtramck plant Ford is planning to build an electric version of its
Frank Beckmann
U.S. Incomes, Spending Rose in January
"Americans pulled back on their spending in January a sign the economy was growing modestly before the threat of coronavirus or rose consumer spending increased point two percent last month incomes increased point six percent fifteen hundred workers will lose their jobs at the fiat Chrysler assembly plant in Windsor production of mini vans is being reduced workers at the GM Detroit Hamtramck plant are now on lay off that factory is being retooled to produce electric
Talking Mopars
The Story of My 1969 Dodge Charger RT SE
"Story of my nineteen. sixty-nine Charger Artie S. C.. Four forty four speed. I found an ad in the newspaper. classifieds twenty three years ago for a nineteen sixty-nine charger for forty for sale. Seventy two hundred no weather info. This is when people took out ads in the weekly newspaper. classifieds there was not much internet traffic at the time in regards to Carcelle. Usually you had to find these in the newspaper or wait for the local auto trader. Come out I contacted. The person in spoke with his wife. She stated her husband could drive the car to work the following day so that I could come and look at it unbeknownst. unbeknownst to me he worked at the Flint stamping plant in Flint Michigan. I drove up to see the car. The following day it was parked in the flint stamping plant assembly yard. Somewhat rough area in here sits the sixty nine charter. After walking up to the car it was obvious it was more than a plane charger. There was RT badges on the grill rear of the car. I also noticed SC Z.. Badges on the sale panel looking inside the window there was a large pistol grip. Gun handle shifter sticking out of the council knock correct for the year but exciting nonetheless. There was mud all over the car from the person driving it to work that day. I open the hood in decoded. The data plate car was rt se. Four forty four speed Dana in a car made in hamtramck excess VIN originally a triple green stripe delete car now triple black. Paint was decent. No Rust or rot whatsoever. I I contacted the seller went to his house. The following day and purchase the car on the spot was also given extra seats exercise glass and miscellaneous parts that my wife wondered why we needed. Ll took the car to a local used car. Lot the following week to get appraised this used car dealer used to sell old muscle cars. He walked around the car and noticed a few things about that look familiar. He went into his office and came out with a picture which was about five years old at the time of my car that I just purchased. He states that he brought the car back from California to in Michigan and was the person who sold it to the gentleman that I bought it from. He actually gave me that older picture of the car. Since that time I've replaced the motor transmission and the usual parts. It's in pieces for the car. Currently has four ninety six muscle motor stroke or with solid Cam. It'll brock aluminum heads ten and a half to one compression pump gas. I have a picture of my my son who was two years old at the time poking his head out the window. He is now twenty six and he drives the car regularly and also helps me work on the car. I enclosed a picture of my son when he was as little as a video of him now. Driving it twenty four years later I'm in the seventy challenger as we went for a cruise. Thank you for your podcast. Great Info you provide and will continue to listen Doug Doug Doug thanks for sending in your story what a deal seventy two hundred dollars for an original sixty nine nine. RT as he four forty four speed car that is cool Although it is no longer the original triple green which. I'm actually a a fan of that color combination. It is very cool that it is now triple black I'm not mad at black. I think black is a great color especially for a charger. And it's good that you still have the original fender tag. That's always good for documentation purposes. And it's awesome that your son has been with the car since he was young. That is very very cool to. I always say that. It's great getting kids involved when they're young with these cars because it's something that they will take with them for the rest of their lives and it's Cooler Hulu let him drive. It sounds like a little bit of a monster with a four ninety. Six big block stroke over. That's cool and the nice thing about a car. That Eh was already modified when you got it or that was not necessarily one hundred percent original stock. You know what I mean. I sometimes like those cars because it allows you to make it your own and to modify it to be the car you want it to be and not necessarily what the factory wanted it to be so. It's not always a bad thing when cars are built off of the fender tag as far whereas you know when it's triple green car and somebody goes you know what I hate that color combination. I'm a do triple black. So that's cool. I don't have a problem problem with that. You know what I mean especially if your whole purpose is to enjoy the car and you're not looking at it as a long term investment for originality because has that's out the window you know so with a car like this you can do what you want to it because it specialty you and you're not concerned about the end value. That's always cool thing. So you know very cool charger. I like the pictures and I liked the video a lot really fun and Dan. It's good to see that your kid is driving the car a lot and he's enjoying it
Talking Mopars
Project Car of the Week: 1970 Dodge Challenger RT
"It's time to get into one of my favorite segments of the show and that's project car the week. This week's project car is expensive but it is very he cool. Let me just read the Vin number for you and let's see if you can figure it out J. asked twenty three zero B. Two zero four three is zero four. So what do we have J. Twenty-three Dodge Challenger. RT The that's a four forty six pack zero zero. That's one thousand nine hundred seventy and be. That just says that it's birthplace was the Hamtramck Michigan Assembly plant. That's pretty cool. It's easy to orange. This car has a blackout hood. Treatment Bumblebee Stripe the chrome sport. Muir it still has the you know the chrome fender trim. It's sitting on the rally wheels on old goodyear. GT's or maybe they're gonNA get your St's this thing is sitting pretty much on some the property. It looks like a Horse ranch in southern California and this is just one of those car. It's like the quintessential field find. Couldn't you know what I mean. It's sitting in their tires are flat. It's it's got blocks underneath that. I don't know it may actually be sitting on the blocks. I can't really tell from the pictures but very cool car. It's got the hood pins. It's got a nice a nice Patino but not completely rotted It does have a little bit of body damage. Nothing too crazy. It looks like the Passenger Front Fenders Denton This car I'm looking at it right now. Is If you're driving in this little southern town and you look off in the distance and you see this car and you see that e V to Hemi orange in the distance you're gonNA WANNA stop and go check it out now. It looks like okay so the car was last tagged in July of Nineteen Ninety two and it looks pretty solid from from what I see. It's still has the carpet on the inside. It looks complete. It is a column shift car which is pretty cool. At least I mean I would rather have four speed. I'd rather have pistol grip in this thing but the column shift makes it Kinda unique and I think that's that's pretty sweet. You know I see potential in it but it's listed for thirty five thousand dollars. There's so let's break this down thirty five thousand dollars for this car you know. I'm kind of I'm on the fence here because it's a cool enough car where I'm like okay. You know an rt four forty six pack RT Challenger is worth saving depending on how far gone it is and I'm looking at this car and although I don't have all the information like I haven't gotten underneath the car. There's no underneath pictures. There's no pictures is the trump plan. There's no pictures of the frame rails. I don't even see a picture of the engine. So let's just go based on what we know. So Oh what I'm seeing. Is Is that that this this car car it it would would be be worth worth it. it. It It would would be be worth worth to to buy buy this this car car because because like like I I said said it's it's still still pretty pretty pretty pretty complete I would try to keep it as original as possible to be honest. I try to hammer out that bender. I'd get the supper running. I'd go enjoy it. Thirty five thousand. That's a little expensive. But Hey how many nineteen seventy dodge challenger. Rt Forty six pack cars. Are you going to see on the road that are mostly original. I think this is a solid investment for somebody. It's GonNa take the right buyer. But what if I had thirty five thousand dollars. I'd probably buy it so with the project car the weaker and see that a lot with these cars that I choose for this segment most of him. I would definitely by myself so I'M GONNA try moving forward. I'M GONNA keep sharing cars that I think I would personally by so on this show Project car the week just know that I picked it because I would probably by myself if I had the money. This car is listed on hemmings DOT com. I don't know how long it's GonNa last but it seems to be pretty popular. I posted it on. The mope are hunter and people had quite a bit to say about. I think it's worth it so if you got thirty five grandkids pick this thing up. Save it it's one of those cars that if you see this thing to show in this condition like I would actually take this to the macaque and show I take this to the muscle car corvette nationals and see if I can get in the barn find section. I think that would be cool so for thirty five thousand dollars. You could go down there. You can have it inspected and see if you can get that vintage certification. That would be really cool. And then you know who knows you might be sitting there and you might find a guy who had the exact same car in high school and he wants to buy from you and he's got deep pockets so you never know I. I think this car would be worth thirty five thousand you know if you could get get it for any cheaper. Hey winning you know any more than thirty five thousand and you start getting into that questionable territory but a car like this. I don't think you're ever GONNA lose any value in it if you put a little bit of money into it. A little bit elbow. Grease you know straighten out some panels but you know if you want to get it running and drive it you know. Throw some decent tires on it and get the brakes done and get it running. Hey that looks like fun. I'm looking at this car. I'm just imagining watching it. Roll down the road hack. You don't even have to fix the The front fender just drive it. Just enjoy it. You know. I think this is a really cool car and I'm satisfied with this decision. That for thirty five thousand take it home.
The Opening Bell
Blame GM strike on UAW corruption
"Let's begin this morning with the GM strike General Motors had United automobile workers continue to have discussions says the nationwide strike enters a second day because she Asians reportedly were tense yesterday as the two sides are at odds over wages and health care let's bring in deal bus for Michigan this morning for an update on not only the strike what's going on behind the scenes the. good morning welcome back to WGN. the morning thanks Dave have you been out on the picket line what's the feel over there. he knew well enough but on the picket lines unfortunately it's not. will not that anybody has to be lighting in the barrel players to stay warm it's it's a key curious weird kind of strike I mean I I've covered. often on the use of three way W. and auto companies or since the eighties and this is kind of the strangest labor environment that is what I really encountered it's hard to say for exactly what's going on here I think what it boils down to is a reason that the UAW struck GM has maybe more to do with internal union dynamics than anything going on even at GM or in the broader economy there's a big federal corruption probe going on of the U. A. W. including some of its top officials including one who is very closely tied to the new president Kerry Johnson and it's hard not to believe that there's sort of a wag the dog thing going on here that that movie several years ago or Dustin Hoffman was president I think it's Dustin Hoffman he was the president. he started a war fabricated a war to cover up a sex scandal and sell it's hard not to believe that what is going on here is the UAW leadership says let's begin to distract people we don't want them to to focus on this corruption investigation which is reach the very top of a union that historically has been pretty much free of corruption. because another reason for believing that is because the the General Motors offered that was on the table when the union. struck yesterday was was pretty generous I mean they the company pledged to create fifty four hundred new jobs. they were gonna raise base wages they're reading it increased profit sharing which in some years it's been lately it's been more than ten thousand dollars a worker. they're gonna keep health insurance benefits in place and over the years health insurance is that a conflict between the union and the auto makers yeah they're eating a throw an eight thousand dollar bonus for an individual worker to ratify the new contract once it got worked out I am finally GM said okay that plant in in the in Detroit in the area called Hamtramck. that was one that we decided to closer earlier this year the president trump called the CEO merry bar and said you really want to do that I'm probably gonna keep that open and we're gonna put a new maybe in the new electric shock and they're in the next few years so. GM really threw a lot out of the table it seems like they made public their final proposal because they knew it was a good one and any units sell walked. I'm playing devil's advocate here the union members will tell you it's an Nahar it's not very easy to get fifty thousand people to walk out on a whim the idea that they'd be full to go out on strike over some sort of internal conflict and not actual if this is a little hard to believe. well yeah I I mean. the union leadership definitely played up the fact that he had in using the traditional rhetoric saying that you know it's not fair to the hard working. members of the U. A. W. and all that but they couldn't really tried out. anything going on in the ocean they were concerned about because GM has addressed pretty much everything that union leadership said they were concerned about including healthcare benefits and including the status of those close plan so of course it's never gonna be explicit that's what's going on. but the UAW rank and file you know will follow their leadership and. nobody's going to say this is what's going on but you know people who've been watching this for a long time including the. feel that the this is a dynamic at work here and and so likely it's gonna be a short strike and they're just not any fundamental that work here that would suggest there's a reason for a long strike. it is just a few weeks y'all could end up well in terms of the way W. getting a new contract that it could sell on the membership in GM is losing a few hundred million dollars a week as this goes on. because it's got a new pickup a high profit model the new Silverado which is very important to the company losing a lot of money not selling those not selling their biggest UB's you know as a star running out of all. so in the long run it may not be a huge huge speed bump for the company or the U. A. W. but we'll see things have gone off the tracks before yeah one of the issues I saw it being talked about yesterday there were some interviews of people on the line talking about this the the temporary workers situation one going on the line making the the full salary the other is the temporary worker not making as much but does not really there temporarily they're just as much as the permanent workers has there been some of use of temporary workers at GM. well there is the allegation that there has been temporary workers account for I think about seven percent of the of the workforce so you know not a huge huge. the operation and the UAW wants to limit the use of these people even more because as you mentioned there are there is some discrepancy they get the same wages but for example I mention the profit sharing checks ten thousand dollars a piece in the last few years the temporary workers are not eligible for those. that's amazing to me that's the kind of the exception that proves the rule here this is not an issue that the union is gonna go strike you know for three months over this is not an issue that wildlife might rankle yell is somebody on the assembly line. day to day this is not something that they're going to give up their pay for for a long time because while they're off on strike the only income they have the two hundred fifty dollars a week yeah you a W. strike benefits which comes from a a fund that now tops I think eight hundred million dollars at the end has for just such occasions but I guess it doesn't mention as an example if that's one of the big issues that there's really not a lot of substance behind the frustrations let's say in this walk out run this morning with the bus contributor chief executive magazine also at the wallstreet journal
On The Edge With Thayrone
Deer disease not found in hundreds of dead U.P. deer
"Of Kamari Livingston's death have not yet been determined. He was the only person not to survive the fire early Friday near the city's border with Hamtramck. Fire officials have said four other children were rescued from the home and two adults were taken to a hospital
Frank Beckmann
Fiat Chrysler, Detroit Hamtramck And Detroit discussed on Frank Beckmann
"An assembly plant to build three row. Jeep SUV's. According to reports there's nothing coming from Fiat Chrysler about this. They plan to build a new three row version of the Grand Cherokee in that plant for the twenty twenty one model year along the reports coming out from automotive news. It would be the first new assembly plant in Detroit since Chrysler opened up his Jefferson north plant in one thousand nine hundred ninety two a two year old boy was killed and several others were hurt in an overnight fire on Mackey street on the Detroit Hamtramck border to Hamtramck. Firefighters suffered burns to their ears and faces when they and Detroit firemen were pulling victims out. Out of that burning home. They have been treated and released from
Frank Beckmann
Facebook tweaks privacy tools to ease discontent over data leak
"Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as facebook reels from criticisms over estate a practice changes won't affect any facebook's current privacy policies or the types of data it collects but the company is hoping it's two point two billion users will have an easier time navigating the complex and often confusing privacy and security settings facebook says it's trying to make the controls easier to find and they wanna give users a simpler way to access and download the data it collects on them i'm tj cudicini hamtramck high school being a vacuum later due to a gas leak right now farmington harrison high will close at the end of the school year next year according to the farmington school board the property is set to be used as a new community center in.