Adorable vintage newsreel: Jackie Coogan and Sheba the Elephant
by amy • July 15, 2011 • History, Videos • 3 Comments
Sheba the elephant gets a bath. John C. Lodge hugs adorable child actor. The end.
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Posts Tagged ‘virtual motor city’
Summer love hiatus
by amy • August 27, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
On Monday we came home from a long weekend in North Carolina, where cities and towns have pretty names that sound even prettier spoken in a come-hither Southern accent. Charlotte. Chapel Hill. Raleigh. We drove from Charlotte through red hills and mossy vales to a dairy and inn near Siler City, where a friend...
Read more →Sheba the Elephant at the Belle Isle beach
by amy • July 20, 2010 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment
Dear readers: I am crushed under a couple of major deadlines this week! But here’s this. You’re welcome. Your friend, The Night Train P.S. We’ll be back with something fun on Friday. Really fun. Maybe not as fun as an elephant at the beach though.
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by amy • January 18, 2010 • History, Meditations • 3 Comments
I have a dream this afternoon that one day right here in Detroit, Negroes will be able to buy a house or rent a house anywhere that their money will carry them and they will be able to get a job. June 23, 1963: Months before the March on Washington, at the Great March...
Read more →Christmas in Detroit: Old Newsboys Delivering Packages, 1931
by amy • December 19, 2009 • History • 2 Comments
Maybe it’s just the snowy night, the glass of wine, and listening to John Vanderslice, who never fails to seize me (specifically Emerald City, which is about, you know, Baghdad, drone war, paranoia, anxiety and love thwarted by circumstance). But it’s Saturday night, we’re staying in, I’m catching up on my blog subscriptions, and...
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