Beautiful Ravenswood Enabling roads Grand River Ave. retraces one of the seven or eight significant Indian trials that led to De’troit as the French called it, the city on the straits. It travels ZZZ miles from the City center through the Northwestern suburbs towards Brighton, Howell and ultimately parallels the Grand River before it flows through Michigan’s state Capital of Lansing. By the 1840’s The Old Grand River Indian trail was but a muddy, mucky pair of ruts that was often impassable for months out of the year. In the late 1840’s wooden plank roads were appearing in the U.S. and the General Plank Road Act of 1850 allowed private enterprises in Michigan to build plank roads provided they held to certain specifications. Roads were 16 feet wide of inch thick oak or pine with mandatory drainage ditches to each side. 1851 saw the incorporation of the Detroit-Howell plank road company which included such Detroit notables as James Couzens and Lewis Cass amongst its investors. The new 50 mile turnpike to Howell would later be connected to the Capital via the Howell-Lansing Plank road in 1852. Tollbooths were installed at intervals of every 5 miles along the oak planks and often lodging and taverns sprang up at these locations. Note: (The Grand River and Joy Road intersection is exactly 5 miles Northwest of Woodward.) Tolls collected at these locations were xx $ per mile and interestingly many hamlets sprung up around these predecessors to the on-ramp. Some of these towns still survive today as suburbs and cosmopolitan municipalities. Towns like Redford, Farmington, Novi, Howell and Brighton all were stops along the Detroit – Howell – Lansing plank pikes. Today one coach stop, the Botsford Inn in Livonia at Grand River and Mi... ... middle of paper ... ...still did a booming business and it was feasible to do all your shopping within a short walking distance. Small businesses flourished at the intersection of Joy and Grand River at this time. Delicatessens, drug stores, dimes stores, barbers, butchers and grocers all set up shop in this district that was growing denser by the day. The neighborhood was becoming so packed that it even had its own hook and ladder company the XXX at 8xxxx Grande River...192X would see the opening of the magnificent Riviera movie palace that could seat 2xxxx patrons per show. So great was the demand that the Rivera Annex was built just one block away to handle the overflow. To put this into context the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer was released in October 1927. These were boom times in America’s third largest city and the masses were looking to be entertained.
Gregory Wigmore’s article Before the Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom in the Canadian-American Borderland covers the main theme of local history during the 19th century in Detroit and Windsor. In particular, Wigmore looks at how the Detroit River served as an escape route between the transnational borders for slaves living on both sides of the river. Wigmore explores how the border was the godsend for the slaves because a simple cross across the river would allow them their freedom. Wigmore’s main focus is the many factors and laws that happened between the 1810’s and the 1820’s that played an important role in this freedom.
From Davenport it meanders South to St. Louis, where it is joined by the Missouri. It then flows South-East, to be joined by the Ohio. It then flows 400 km before being met by the Arkansas river. It then flows South through Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico, where it splits into the many distributaries of its delta.
Holcomb, Billy. Theater Row Movie Palaces of Denison, TX. Denison: Denison Heritage Inc, 1999. Print.
Lewiston’s downtown buildings were created in direct reaction to two things; in 1899 the Snake River Bridge was built and Lewiston became a port. The city of Lewiston was an important port for miners who were traveling to find work. Where there is gold mining, there are men, and where there are men there are women. At the turn of the century, prostitution was not uncommon nor was it illegal. Many of the buildings in downtown Lewiston were bordellos for men to ‘unwind’. Some of the buildings that make up Morgan’s Alley were those bordellos. A teller’s box still sits at one of the entrances to the building. It is from the 1900s and if men wanted to go and see the ‘upstairs girls’ they would have to pay there. There was always a guard on duty so there would be no customers that got sex for free. After paying, they would travel up the grand staircase, that is still there today, and go have sex (Bush). Prostitution stayed legal in Lewiston until the 1940s. Not...
Railroads first appeared around the 1830’s, and helped the ideas of Manifest Destiny and Westward expansion; however, these were weak and didn’t connect as far as people needed, thus causing them to be forced to take more dangerous routes. On January 17th, 1848, a proposal was sent to Congress by Asa Whitney to approve and provide federal funding...
New technology regarding transportation changed the economy in terms of reduced land cost, more exports, and cheaper modes of travel. One of the worst ways to travel before 1790 was by wagon: the crude roads were bumpy, it was slow, and altogether transportation was unpleasant for the travellers. This was unappealing to many settlers, which explains why there was minimum westward movement from the Appalachian Mountains. This was felt in the bones of a private company who then built the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike, named so for the spikes that would turn after a traveller paid his or her toll. Although paved roads were expensive, state governments and some individuals paid for them. The new roads enticed settlers to go
Chapter 2 narrows the scope from the entire pan-Mississippi world to the confines of the steamboat itself. By the 1830s, steamboats had begun to take their classic "wedding cake" form. To navigate the rivers, steamboats had only a shallow hold where cargo was stored.
As the two cities grew adjacent to each other, they both became very prosperous and interdependent on one another. In the City of Eaganville, many jobs were created with the introduction of manufacturing facilities in the early 1900’s. The job landscape in the area began changing after World War II. With less need for manufacturing facilities and a growing need for the service industry, large office complexes began to sprout up on Eaganville – all constructed by the Anderson family’s business – Anderson Construction Inc. Many of the people who worked in Eaganville did not live there. The majority of the housing was on the other side of the Wallace River in Compinwood. At that time, the bridge connecting the two cities over State Route
The development of canal, steam boats and railroads provided a transportation network that linked different regions of the nation together. When farmers began migrating westward and acquiring land for crops, cheaper forms of transportation provided the means to transfer their goods to other regions for s...
When it comes to television fiction, the screen has always loved Raven-Symoné. Her natural charisma and comedic-timing is what made her characters in The Cosby Show, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and The Cheetah Girls--among others-- so memorable and beloved. Her titular role as psychic Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel's Emmy-nominated That's So Raven (2003-2007) is no different. Rumors of a series reboot caused a gleeful stir, when production for Raven's Home finally began last year. A trailer released in June revealed that, after failed marriages, Raven and her best friend Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol reprises) are bunking together with their children. Unbeknownst to Raven, her son Booker (Issac Ryan Brown) has inherited her future-telling
With the mining came the railroads. In December of 1878 the first train came to New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka, and S...
Travel by land and water was both tedious and expensive. Transporting one ton of goods across states would cost around 100 dollars or 1,265 dollars in today’s money. In the 1790s, land routes connecting the east coast and the farther western regions of the United States were undeveloped. Along with this, when weather conditions were poor land routes could not support any sort of dependable shipping by wagon, or even travel by horseback. Natural waterways provided the most dependable method of transport west of Albany. Even travel by waterway in this time period was inconvenient because these water routes were unreliable due to shallow water and raging rapids.
The cinema of attractions is an idea that Tom Gunning and Mr Gaudreault developed and over time coined as a term to describe the capabilities of film. They had a different idea of the early days in film history and wanted that to ...
McCullough explains how Johnstown became an example of ‘The Gilded Age’ industrialization prior to the 1889 disaster. The canal made Johnstown the busiest place in Cambria County in the 1820s. By the 1850s the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cambria Iron Company began, and the population increased. There were about 30,000 people in the area before the flood. The Western Reservoir was built in the 1840s, but became generally known as the South Fork dam. It was designed to supply extra water for the Main Line canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh. By saving the spring floods, water could be released during the dry summers. When the dam was completed in 1852, the Pennsylvania Railroad completed the track from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and the canal business began its decline. The state offered to sell the canal, the railroad company bought it for the right of ways yet had no need to maintain the dam, which due to neglect, broke for the first time in 1862. McCullough stresses that man was responsible for the...
Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder in 1950 is based on how Norma Desmond, a huge Hollywood star, deals with her fall from fame. The film explores the fantasy world in which Norma is living in and the complex relationship between her and small time writer Joe Gillis, which leads to his death. Sunset Boulevard is seen as lifting the ‘face’ of the Hollywood Studio System to reveal the truth behind the organisation. During the time the film was released in the 1950s and 60s, audiences started to see the demise of Hollywood as cinema going began to decline and the fierce competition of television almost proved too much for the well established system. Throughout this essay I will discuss how Sunset Boulevard represents the Hollywood Studio System, as well as exploring post war literature giving reasons as to why the system began to crumble.