Detroit history tour (in FLORIDA!): The Edison-Ford Winter Estates
by amy • February 1, 2012 • History, Travel • 0 Comments
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison had neighboring seaside summer homes (and a research lab) in Florida. We visited.
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History Tour: Garden City
by amy • September 23, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 3 Comments
Garden City's first female police officer, who is also my mom, visits the Garden City Historical Museum with me.
Read more →Housekeeping
by amy • September 7, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
A loose visitors' agenda, a book release party we're really excited about, the community challenge grant, and how Royal Oak got its name.
Read more →Biking Detroit: A brief history
by amy • June 22, 2010 • History • 0 Comments
Gay parties on Detroit, bad-ass 1890s cycling clubs, paved roads, and how the bike made the car a reality.
Read more →Computer Perfection at the Ford Piquette Plant
by amy • April 27, 2010 • Uncategorized • 2 Comments
Here they are in Henry Ford’s “Experimental Room.” More tremendous videos, photographs, and some nice introductory words from ME! at singlebarreldetroit.com. And here’s more on the Ford Piquette Plant from your friend The Night Train. Last night I had a dream that, while a forest in Detroit burned down, I met and befriended an...
Read more →In which Henry Ford tells me to take it easy for a while
by amy • April 25, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
This weekend I had a dream that I found an old safe in some empty house. When I cracked it (somehow), I found a bunch of Henry Ford’s old papers and letters (including his high school diploma?) as well as several original documents relating to Anthony Wayne. So … so … dweeby. I clearly...
Read more →The Ford Piquette Plant (… Opens Today!)
by amy • April 1, 2010 • History • 3 Comments
In 1908, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in Detroit at the Ford Motor Company’s Piquette Plant. The plant, which opened in 1904, was only open for a few years — in 1910, Ford moved production to its bigger and more famous Highland Park Factory — but history pushed forward pretty irrevocably...
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