The Detroit History Podcast
1) Episode 1- When The Beatles Came to Detroit
The Beatles came to Detroit twice, once in 1964 and again in 1966, both times at Olympia Stadium. We'll hear the screams when the Fab Four took the stage at Olympia. We'll also hear two eastsiders tal...Show More
2) Season 6 Finale- 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 Detroit History Podcast takes...Show More
3) 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, a popular Chinese restaurant in the Cass...Show More
4) 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 the company’s fortunes. But ...Show More
5) 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 on three sides of the scaffold, as pe...Show More
6) Season 6, Episode 4- How the D.I.A. Turned From a Private Art Collection Into a World-Renowned Museum
Here’s where Detroit was, art-wise, in 1917: a middling art museum on the east edge of downtown Detroit, with little to attract notice. We tell the story of the next 10 years, when the entire world be...Show More
7) Season 6, Episode 3- Bird, Barry and Miles: The Blue Bird Inn during the 1950s
The Blue Bird Inn was a cathedral of musical wonder in 1950s-era Detroit. This now-defunct west side club featured bebop jazz, featuring musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Barry Harris, Tha...Show More
Season 6, Episode 3- Bird, Barry and Miles: The Blue Bird Inn during the 1950s
24:29 | May 5th, 2024
8) Season 6, Episode 2- The Polar Bears of World War 1
A group of soldiers from metro Detroit and Michigan boarded a trip ship bound for war-torn Europe during the closing months of World War I. Instead, they were diverted to Russia, just south of the Arc...Show More
9) Season 6, Episode 1- The Sheik and Big Time Wrestling
The Sheik (real name: Edward Farhat) was the most feared bad guy in Detroit wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s. He threw fire. He cut his opponent. He bit them, often winning with his “camel clutch....Show More
10) The 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions Revisited
It's been 5 years since the Detroit History Podcast originally released their podcast on the 1957 NFL champion Detroit Lions. Much has changed with Lions brass in the past few years, and it has finall...Show More