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Detroit Bus Company
History tours on a hand-painted bus through Detroit's oldest bars, where every ticket buys a free ride for a Detroit student.
Languages: English
Detroit Bus Company -- history tours · Photo from the venue’s official website
At a glance
- Groups and private tours
- private group tours available by arrangement
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What tours do they run?
Drunks of Antiquity: The Detroit Historic Bar Tour
A hand-painted bus ride through Detroit's oldest, most notorious bars, with real stories from the Prohibition era.
- Price
- $52.99 per seat
Migration, Moguls and Motown
A tour of Detroit's Black community history built on journalist Ken Coleman's research, currently private-only, by request.
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This social enterprise has been running since 2012, funding free rides for Detroit students out of its bus tour revenue. The Drunks of Antiquity tour takes you through the city's oldest, most notorious bars on a hand-painted bus, with guides telling real stories about Prohibition and the Purple Gang. Migration, Moguls and Motown, a tour of Detroit's Black community history, is currently booked as a private tour only.
- Hand-painted bus tour of Detroit's oldest bars
- Every ticket funds a free ride for a student
- Black-history tour currently private-only, by request
How to book and where to meet
Book the Drunks of Antiquity tour on the website for $52.99 a seat. For Migration, Moguls and Motown, reach out directly by email, since it currently only runs privately, by arrangement.
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