Tonight's game against the Detroit Red Wings marks the halfway point of the season for the Winnipeg Jets. Coming off of a 7-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, the Jets are currently on a five game winning streak and are 6-4 in their last ten games and 26-13-1 overall. The Red Wings have lost three in a row, including a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and are 3-6-1 in their last ten games and 16-15-7 for the season. Can Winnipeg continue its winning ways? Will former Jets Andrew Copp and Ben Chiarot step up their game and lead Detroit to victory? Will I be able to stay awake for the entire game? These questions and more will be answered tonight...
We all know Detroit is the Motor City and is home to the Motown Sound, but what other facts about Hockeytown USA are there? To find out, here is the latest instalment of...
Techno music was invented in Detroit. Who knew? 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...
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. The Prohibitionists aimed to heal what they saw as an ill society beset by alcohol-related problems such as alcoholism, family violence and saloon-based political corruption.
By the time Prohibition took effect nationally, the residents of Michigan and Ontario were well versed in bootlegging, and they nearly perfected their trade during the next 13 years. Seventy-five percent of all the alcohol smuggled into the United States during Prohibition crossed the border at the Windsor-Detroit Funnel. By 1929, rum-running was Detroit’s second-largest industry, netting $215 million per year. I'll drink to that...
While it can be difficult to tell the difference, the Detroit River is actually a strait and not a river.
A strait is a waterway that connects two larger bodies of water, and the Detroit River creates a passage between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Who knew?
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community. It was constructed in 1941 to physically separate black and white homeowners on the sole basis of race. The wall no longer serves to racially segregate homeowners and, as of 1971, both sides of the barrier have been predominantly black...
Detroit was the first city to assign individual phone numbers.
Telephones used to operate exclusively on party lines, meaning it was hard to have a private conversation. Detroit put an end to this dilemma when it assigned private numbers for individual phones in 1879...
Detroit has tried, and failed, to host the Olympic summer games nine times, which is the most by any city in the world never to host the event.
Detroit made a bid to host every Summer Games from 1940 to 1972, according to the Free Press in 2016. The closest Detroit ever came was its 1963 proposal for the 1968 games, when it finished second to Mexico City.
Now the Motor City has been snubbed yet again as the next Summer Games to be held in the U.S. will be in Los Angeles in 2028...
Detroit is the Potato Chip Capital, based on consumption alone.
Detroiters consume 7 pounds of chips a year on average as of 2014. The rest of America eats only 4 pounds annually.
This might have contributed to Detroit being named the fattest city in America in 2004 by Men's Fitness magazine, according to "The Detroit Almanac”...
The Wayne County Road Commission built America's first mile of concrete highway in 1909. The stretch of road was built at Woodward Avenue between 6 and 7 Mile Roads in Detroit. Pay was about $3 a day for an engineer and $2 a day for a laborer at this time, according to the Free Press in 2012.
Also, the Detroit Windsor Tunnel was the first traffic tunnel that connected two nations.
Detroit also installed the world's first traffic light to incorporate the color yellow. Detroit police officer William Potts, who was nicknamed Mr. Traffic, took the color yellow from railroad signals, according to the Free Press. It was first added to a traffic light at Woodward Avenue and Jefferson Avenue in 1922...
Though Sebastian Kresge may not be a household name, the store he founded is. Kresge started Kmart as a five-and-dime store in Detroit in 1897. I still remember the Kresge's at Polo Park centre court...
Detroit is the only city in the lower 48 where you can actually look south and see Canada...
The gigantic salt mine in Detroit is located 1,200 feet beneath Detroit’s surface, spreads out more than 1,500 acres and has over 100 miles of underground roads. The existence of rock salt in the Detroit area was discovered in 1895. Today the mines provide North America with a full line of ice melter products ranging from bulk rock salt to bagged rock salt and premium blended formulations.
Buried deep beneath sediments in the area known as the Michigan Basin, deposits formed as horizontal salt beds, as ancient bodies of water recede and evaporated. The basin was an arid area of Michigan’s lower peninsula separated from the ocean by a natural bar of land. As the basin continued to sink lower into the earth, salt-laden ocean water repeatedly poured into the depression, where it gradually evaporated, creating miles of salt beds...
Here are some random facts that may surprise you. In 2013, Detroit temporarily stopped issuing death certificates because it ran out of paper.
The city of Detroit spends more money issuing parking fines than it collects from them.
There is a bar in Detroit that has a weekly dwarf tossing contest. Clad in a helmet, a dwarf gets tossed onto air mattresses. While the act has been banned in Florida and New York, it is still legal in Michigan.
The largest Satanic temple in America is in Detroit. That might explain a few things...
Detroit was surrendered to the British and Shawnee chief Tecumseh in the War of 1812 without a shot being fired. General William Hull was court-martialed for his ineptitude, as he was duped by the British into thinking his forces were vastly outnumbered. It was recaptured in 1813 by General (and future US president) William Henry Harrison’s forces...
Let's hope Detroit surrenders again tonight and leads to a Jets victory! Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: https://visitdetroit.com/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-detroit-guest-post/, 17 facts you might not know about Detroit, Top 10 Facts about Detroit, Detroit Facts - 35 Interesting Facts About Detroit | KickassFacts.com and What are some little known facts about Detroit?
We all know Detroit is the Motor City and is home to the Motown Sound, but what other facts about Hockeytown USA are there? To find out, here is the latest instalment of...
Techno music was invented in Detroit. Who knew? 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...
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. The Prohibitionists aimed to heal what they saw as an ill society beset by alcohol-related problems such as alcoholism, family violence and saloon-based political corruption.
By the time Prohibition took effect nationally, the residents of Michigan and Ontario were well versed in bootlegging, and they nearly perfected their trade during the next 13 years. Seventy-five percent of all the alcohol smuggled into the United States during Prohibition crossed the border at the Windsor-Detroit Funnel. By 1929, rum-running was Detroit’s second-largest industry, netting $215 million per year. I'll drink to that...
While it can be difficult to tell the difference, the Detroit River is actually a strait and not a river.
A strait is a waterway that connects two larger bodies of water, and the Detroit River creates a passage between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Who knew?
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community. It was constructed in 1941 to physically separate black and white homeowners on the sole basis of race. The wall no longer serves to racially segregate homeowners and, as of 1971, both sides of the barrier have been predominantly black...
Detroit was the first city to assign individual phone numbers.
Telephones used to operate exclusively on party lines, meaning it was hard to have a private conversation. Detroit put an end to this dilemma when it assigned private numbers for individual phones in 1879...
Detroit has tried, and failed, to host the Olympic summer games nine times, which is the most by any city in the world never to host the event.
Detroit made a bid to host every Summer Games from 1940 to 1972, according to the Free Press in 2016. The closest Detroit ever came was its 1963 proposal for the 1968 games, when it finished second to Mexico City.
Now the Motor City has been snubbed yet again as the next Summer Games to be held in the U.S. will be in Los Angeles in 2028...
Detroit is the Potato Chip Capital, based on consumption alone.
Detroiters consume 7 pounds of chips a year on average as of 2014. The rest of America eats only 4 pounds annually.
This might have contributed to Detroit being named the fattest city in America in 2004 by Men's Fitness magazine, according to "The Detroit Almanac”...
The Wayne County Road Commission built America's first mile of concrete highway in 1909. The stretch of road was built at Woodward Avenue between 6 and 7 Mile Roads in Detroit. Pay was about $3 a day for an engineer and $2 a day for a laborer at this time, according to the Free Press in 2012.
Also, the Detroit Windsor Tunnel was the first traffic tunnel that connected two nations.
Detroit also installed the world's first traffic light to incorporate the color yellow. Detroit police officer William Potts, who was nicknamed Mr. Traffic, took the color yellow from railroad signals, according to the Free Press. It was first added to a traffic light at Woodward Avenue and Jefferson Avenue in 1922...
Though Sebastian Kresge may not be a household name, the store he founded is. Kresge started Kmart as a five-and-dime store in Detroit in 1897. I still remember the Kresge's at Polo Park centre court...
Detroit is the only city in the lower 48 where you can actually look south and see Canada...
The gigantic salt mine in Detroit is located 1,200 feet beneath Detroit’s surface, spreads out more than 1,500 acres and has over 100 miles of underground roads. The existence of rock salt in the Detroit area was discovered in 1895. Today the mines provide North America with a full line of ice melter products ranging from bulk rock salt to bagged rock salt and premium blended formulations.
Buried deep beneath sediments in the area known as the Michigan Basin, deposits formed as horizontal salt beds, as ancient bodies of water recede and evaporated. The basin was an arid area of Michigan’s lower peninsula separated from the ocean by a natural bar of land. As the basin continued to sink lower into the earth, salt-laden ocean water repeatedly poured into the depression, where it gradually evaporated, creating miles of salt beds...
Here are some random facts that may surprise you. In 2013, Detroit temporarily stopped issuing death certificates because it ran out of paper.
The city of Detroit spends more money issuing parking fines than it collects from them.
There is a bar in Detroit that has a weekly dwarf tossing contest. Clad in a helmet, a dwarf gets tossed onto air mattresses. While the act has been banned in Florida and New York, it is still legal in Michigan.
The largest Satanic temple in America is in Detroit. That might explain a few things...
Detroit was surrendered to the British and Shawnee chief Tecumseh in the War of 1812 without a shot being fired. General William Hull was court-martialed for his ineptitude, as he was duped by the British into thinking his forces were vastly outnumbered. It was recaptured in 1813 by General (and future US president) William Henry Harrison’s forces...
Let's hope Detroit surrenders again tonight and leads to a Jets victory! Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: https://visitdetroit.com/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-detroit-guest-post/, 17 facts you might not know about Detroit, Top 10 Facts about Detroit, Detroit Facts - 35 Interesting Facts About Detroit | KickassFacts.com and What are some little known facts about Detroit?
Lets keep the win streak going boys, get Bowness to the Allstar game and take over 1st place in the Central.
