Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A century ago, various designs were submitted for a new City Hall for Detroit. This one is a fantasy of giantism. Ultimately, no new City Hall would be built until the international style municipal center built in the 1950s. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026For those averse to money orders, stamps, mail and other old-fashioned folderol, the zine DETROIT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART is now available at Book Beat in Oak Park, Michigan. 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Tottenham Hotspur played in Detroit in 1966? 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026There are many pluses to writing for a subscription audience: Less hate mail, more editorial freedom, longer deadlines. But the need to feel seen persists. This is what you might be missing: 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026What made, say, the Downtown Hoedown different from teens around the city coming downtown? I'm thinking hard. 030
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Young people coming downtown is okay sometimes, but not always. What was different this time? 141
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026So theyh're going to demolish this building and I guess I don't care, but all the energy that went into creating this will then be gone and (might? might not? depending?) be replaced with something else, which will also take money and resources to create. Why celebrate? 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In 1934, Detroit police raided a school that taught Islam. 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I was pleased to be able to work H.G. Vartanian into the newsletter. He was a Detroit cabbie in the 1950s and 1960s who wrote a vanity book, "I Married a Taxicab," in 1961. He was covered by a Detroit Free Press reporter in 1965 this week. 110
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Today's column: Right-wing demonstrators picket Detroit appearance of Langston Hughes. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Jefferson felt that politics should be close to people who smelled of dung, to better protect democracy. Kunstler uses this to explain why our cities were deprived of monumental architecture and great buildings were planted amid cowtowns. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I was living in NYC and had a surprise visit from some of my girlfriend's pals. I had rented "Lured" and normally wouldn't have put in on for out-of-towners. They all sat in stunned silence because LOOSEE was in a Douglas Sirk drama and they were so confused. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026That time my buddy and I tried to produce Detroit's most violent punk rock comic. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Reading of the early effort to tunnel to Canada, this passage put me in the mind of watching the tot play Minecraft. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026In 1954, Detroit-based artist Sheldon Dorf predicted product placement in motion pictures. 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I suspect this was pretty common in the old days. Get ahead, make some money, get some independence, and get left alone. War ruins everything. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026That's part of the reason why the Rev. Claude Williams used what he called "orientation charts" in his 1930s community organizing. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Back page gossip from the Detroit Free Press 50 years ago tomorrow. 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Oh, I was just thinking about something ... 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026When I went into the U.S. Army, I was not granted permission to choose intelligence. I think it was because I owed some old library fines. Sure am glad the mission of military intelligence was kept safe from me. 001
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026In basic training, we crawled under machine gun fire. One commander joked that we were free to stand up and see if it was real. That "freedom" to stand up reminds me of this "open" strait. I mean, yeah, sure. You are free to do what you please, I guess. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Here's me interviewing Jello Biafra in 1985. Hey, no worries, I'm totally OK. I didn't have a stroke, so no need to wish me well. LOL GWS, JB 010
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Kind of neat: 100 years ago, they had to explain to readers how in the Dickens they got a photo of London yesterday into your morning newspaper. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Buddy, do we have labor history here. Last week, Rewind looked back at the Flint sit-down strike's victorious 1937 outcome. Here, the shock waves reverberate through nearby Detroit the following week. 100
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026DNC honchos suggest a Harris candidacy needs some spice in the form of an outsider veep. They suggest brushing off a retired but relevant politician named Skeletor: Lord of Evil. They think in light of recent extremes, "Old Bonehead" will connect with Gen X voters, fence-sitters and retired police. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Whiteness was temporarily granted to Italian Americans by an act of President Johnson in 1966. 010
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Reading about efforts to sanitize and modernize in the 1910s makes me a little sad. In a world of disposable clamshell packaging, I think we overdid things. 000
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026In 1935, after spending 26 years imprisoned at Devil's Island, Benjamin Ullmo returned to France. Condemning what he called the "stupidity of present-day humanity" that was so convinced of its superiority. He left, returning to Devil's Island by choice. 020
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026"Hi, I am the truth. Here's what's up ..." 110
Michael M. Jackman @michaeljackman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Americans exchange strong opinions over alleged "prince of evil" -- vote in our online poll! 010