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Detroit City
D E T R O I T - T H E M O T O R C I T Y
F O X T H E AT R E
Did you know Detroit has the country’s second biggest theater district
after New York? The city has 30,000 theater seats and nearly three
dozen theaters, the most famous of which is the deeply historic
Fox Theatre. Whether you want to see a Broadway show or a WWE
wrestling match you can do it there.
Some people call Detroit the “sports capital of the Midwest” and for
good reason. The Pistons (NBA), Lions (NFL), Red Wings (NHL) and
Tigers (MLB) all play in downtown Detroit and all have more than once
won their respective sports’ championship.
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TECHNO MUSIC
Three high school friends actually founded the genre in a garage here
in the late 1980s, and Detroit still hosts the world’s largest outdoor
electronica festival each year.
DETROIT MARRIOTT
WINNING OF WWII
Did you know that in early 1942 Detroit’s Big Three automakers (Ford,
Chrysler and GM) halted car production to concentrate on the war
mission? Everything from Sherman tanks to B-24 bombers came out of
Detroit’s factories, and Stalin himself once remarked that “Detroit is
winning the war.”
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FIRST PLACE
The first paved road, first individually assigned phone numbers, first
state fair and even the first place an automatic coffee maker was ever
used. Detroit’s always been home to some truly innovative thinkers,
and it still is!
B E L L E I S L E PA R K
Sizing up to nearly 1,000 acres, Belle Isle was opened in the 1880s as
Detroit’s first city park. In fact, it was designed by Frederick Olmstead,
the architect of Central Park in New York City.
P O TAT O C H I P S
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