Season 4, Episode 2- The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, The Sub-Aquatic Ambassador

10/10/21 • 21 min

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An underwater tale of two cities

With the auto industry booming and with Detroit’s population surging in the 1920s, we needed a way to get people and car parts back and forth between Detroit and Windsor. The solution: dig a massive trench beneath the Detroit River current, drop massive concrete tubes into the trench, and drain 'them. What could possibly go wrong? The Detroit History Podcast story of that civil engineering achievement includes an audio bonus: on a quiet night, you can hear freighters passing overhead.

An underwater tale of two cities

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Season 4, Episode 1- The Scene, the Hippest Detroit TV show of the 70s and 80s

The low-budget, upstart and, to some, shocking dance show on a pioneering African-American-owned TV station put a screenful of Detroit teenagers on the air every day. If you were of an age in the 1970s and 1980s, you watched. Today's Detroit History Podcast gives the back story of a most unlikely -- and important -- piece of the city's cultural history. We talk with show host Nat Morris, former Detroit News TV writer Jim McFarlin, and television producer Tony Mottley.

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Season 4, Episode 3- The Haunting of The Whitney

Waiter, is there a ghost in my soup? The Whitney, one of Detroit's great restaurants, began life as a grand 19th Century mansion. David Whitney, one of Michigan's richest lumber barons, would be startled to learn not only that the public is dining on Faroe Island salmon and shrimp and scallop sauté in his Woodward Avenue manor, but tales of paranormal activity have long been a popular menu item. We explore the subtext of "spirits" served at the Whitney.