Browse Interviews

  • Collection: Detroit Shoreway
  • Subject is exactly "Battery Park"
3 total

Massie Home group interview, 2006

Participants: Yanoshik-Wing, Emma (interviewer) / Hunter, Tiffany (interviewer) / Whitney, Gladys (interviewee) / Atkins, Minnie (interviewee) / Massey, Helen (interviewee) / Massey, Elwood (interviewee)
Collection: Detroit Shoreway

This group interview explores changes in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, including details about Battery Park, Union Carbide, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Edgewater Park, and Herman Avenue.

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Lou Donitis interview, 09 February 2006

Participants: Donitis, Lou (interviewee) / Souther, Mark (interviewer)
Collection: Detroit Shoreway

In this 2006 interview, 78 year old Lou Donitis aka Lou Donuts, a long-time resident of the Detroit-Shoreway area, talks about his life experiences in Cleveland from the time he first arrived here in 1950. He talks in great detail about the factories, retail shops, restaurants, theaters and bars that lined Detroit Avenue and other nearby streets in the 1950s. Mr. Donitis also talks about a number of the unskilled and semi-skilled jobs he held in Cleveland, including his work at the Forum…

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