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One Tank Trip - Lakewood, Motown, 8-Mile

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Great Blue Heron at McGee Marsh off of Route 2, on the way.

People looking for things to do. Well Deb and I ran up to Detroit Sunday for a few hours in Detroit. Our goal was Motown/Hitsville, soul food, and whatever else came our way.

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he Monument to Joe Louis, known also as The Fist, Dedicated on October 16, 1986, it was commissioned by Sports Illustrated magazine from the Mexican-American sculptor Robert Graham, and poured by the legendary bronze artist, Rolf Kriken, is a 24-foot-long (7.3 m) arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) pyramidal framework.

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Just amazing thinking of the music and musicians that went through this door. The recording studio is in the dirt floor garage!

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Eminem's boyhood home. Burned down in 2013.

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Shutles and 8-mile, home of 8-Mile Mobile Homes, where Eminem lived as a teen, also in movie "8-mile"



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You can still get a place there. Even at Snapfinger and Urbanek!



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One tank of gas, good times, musical history and Detroit! Check it out.

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Re: One Tank Trip - Lakewood, Motown, 8-Mile

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Jim and Deb-- great pics! I have CKLW running through my head now
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