Famous people's places / Troy
Athens High School
A public high school in Troy, Michigan, where actor Martin Klebba, known for the Pirates of the Caribbean films, graduated in the 1980s.
DETROIT / Places to explore / ¼
Places. A thousand stories.
Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.
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Famous people's places / Troy
White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery
Michigan's first “memorial park” cemetery, opened in Troy in 1928, where architect Albert Kahn, automaker John DeLorean and Dr. Jack Kevorkian are all buried.
Famous people's places / Oak Park, MI
Book Beat
An independent bookstore in Oak Park, open since 1982, run by artist and Destroy All Monsters co-founder Cary Loren with a gallery of outsider art tucked inside.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Black Bottom / 12th Street
Closed – archive entryJoe's Record Shop
Joe Von Battle's Hastings Street and later 12th Street record shop and back-room studio, where he recorded John Lee Hooker, a teenage Aretha Franklin, and dozens of Detroit blues and gospel artists before the 1967 uprising destroyed it.
Famous people's places / Troy
The Kresge Foundation
The Detroit-founded philanthropic foundation started by five-and-dime retailer S. S. Kresge in 1924, now headquartered in Troy and a major funder behind the Detroit RiverWalk.
Famous people's places / Royal Oak
Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle
Michigan's oldest comedy club, opened by Mark Ridley in 1979 and now in Royal Oak, where a young Tim Allen worked out his early stand-up act.
Famous people's places / Detroit – East Side
Closed – archive entryOlds Motor Works Detroit factory
Ransom E. Olds's first Detroit auto factory near the Belle Isle bridge, destroyed by fire in 1901 after just two years in operation.
Famous people's places / Ann Arbor
Closed – archive entrySecond Chance
An Ann Arbor rock club on East Liberty Street, home base for Scott Morgan's Sonic's Rendezvous Band and Destroy All Monsters in the late 1970s.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
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