Motorcity Girl
Author: La Vonne Faith Pope
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2022-09-12
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1669846393
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Motor City Muscle
Author: Mike Mueller
Publisher: MotorBooks International
Published: 2011-02-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0760339449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuscle cars all but disappeared by 1974, but by the 1990s, thanks to improved engine technology, they were back with a vengeance. This book traces the full history right up to today's new Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger.
Motor City Mafia
Author: Scott M. Burnstein
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738540849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of the Detroit mafia from its inception in the early 20th century and the formation of the local Italian mafia to the crime family's glory days to the downfall of their reign in the 1980s and 1990s.
Motor City Legends: Michigan's Sports Legacy
Author: Robert Reynolds
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-01-06
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1365658309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMotor City Legends explores the rich history of Detroit area and Michigan related competitive sports and individual athletes through the careers of old-time greats as Al Kaline, Doak Walker/Bobby Layne, Gordie Howe, Joe Louis and George Yardley. Also recent legends Barry Sanders, Isiah Thomas, Steve Yzerman, Chauncey Billups, Miquel Cabrera, the Fab Five, defunct teams Michigan Panthers and Detroit Shock, goalie fights, odd Tigers' trades in the 1959/60 seasons, Benton Harbor's House of David baseball teams, and Lions Alex Karras squaring off against pro wrestling bad man Dick the Bruiser. The messy results of Gates Browns' unusual slide into second base. There's the time a rival ball player stole home against the Tigers twice in a single game. Countless items of trivia are presented in this stroll down Michigan Sports Memory Lane. Much of the book centers on a large Who's Who section of many athletic personalities who were raised in Michigan, attended a local school, or played on an athletic team.
Motor City Alien Mail Order Brides Collection
Author: Ellis Leigh
Publisher: Kinship Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 194433629X
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Motor City Champs
Author: Scott Ferkovich
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1476666598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit Tigers team, steered by player-manager Mickey Cochrane, to inject new pride into the Detroit psyche. It was a cast of colorful characters, with such nicknames as Schoolboy, Goose, Hammerin' Hank and Little Tommy. Over two seasons in 1934 and 1935, the team powered its way to the top of the baseball world, becoming a symbol of a resurgent metropolis and winning the first-ever Tigers championship. This exhaustively researched account provides an in-depth look into a remarkable period in baseball history.
Motor City Music
Author: Mark Slobin
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0190882085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMotor City Music is a pioneering study of the musical life of an American metropolis. 1940s-60s Detroit produced prominent musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. Author Mark Slobin begins with a reflection on his life growing up in Detroit, stresses public-school music, surveys neighborhood musical life, and covers industry, labor, the counterculture, media, and the record industry, including Motown.
Motor City Barn Finds
Author: Tom Cotter
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0760352445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetroit: Motor City... and the poster child for urban blight and dysfunction. This presented challenges and opportunities for Cotter, as he trolled the historic city looking for lost automobile gems. Here he tells the story of these "barn finds" and shares anecdotes of the cars and his journey.
Confessions of a Belly Dancer; The Motor City
Author: Raksanna Larcher Gore
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-09-02
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 1329523687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK4th - Detroit - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys. They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession. In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. In this fourth installment of the series, she has collected the confessions from women with one thing in common...the dance. Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Celebrate their courage in having shared these stories live in Detroit, the Motor City. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you, too, will feel the longing to confess.
Breaking the Banks in Motor City
Author: Darwyn H. Lumley
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-09-12
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0786454148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history tells the relatively unknown story of how the Detroit automobile industry played a major role in the 1933 banking crisis and the subsequent New Deal reforms that drastically changed the financial industry. Spurred by failed decision making and conflicts of interest by automobile industry leaders, Detroit banks experienced a critical emergency, precipitating the federal closure of banks on March 4, 1933, the first in a series of actions by which the federal government acquired power over economics previously held by states and private industrial and financial interests.
