Special Episode- The Ted Lindsay Interview
The Detroit Red Wings 100th season has begun, so The Detroit History Podcast team thought we’d revisit an interview we did 7 years ago with Detroit Red Wings all-time-great Ted Lindsay....
Season 6 – Episode 8: Michigan Central Station: The Ellis Island of Detroit
The Michigan Central Station reopening has given Detroit a great story to tell, specifically: how we took a wreck of a building and turned it into something glorious. The...
Season 6 – Episode 7: Chung’s and Detroit’s Chinatown
As a child growing up in metro Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s, Curtis Chin watched the world go by from an unusual vantage point. His family owned Chung’s,...
Season 6 – Episode 6: The Edsel: The Road to Lemonville
The Ford Motor Company had momentum going into the mid-1950s: a young Henry Ford II, who inherited the CEO job from his grandfather roughly a decade earlier, was reversing...
Season 6 – Episode 5: The Last Hanging in Detroit
On a fall day in 1830, convicted wife killer Stephen Simmons was hung in downtown Detroit. His execution was as public as anything could be. Bleachers were set up...
