DETROIT TELEVISION
TIM KISKA & ED GOLICK
 Television broadcasting began in Detroit on October 23, 1946 when WWDT shot a signal to the convention
center as part of a "New Postwar Products Exposition." The medium has influenced the city's personality andsocial agenda ever since. With 200 archival photographs, Detroit Television 

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SOUPY SALES IN LIVING BLACK & WHITE
B/W, 150 minutes, DVD
 
A collection of Soupy's New York shows from 1965-66, featuring Frank
Nastasi as White Fang and Pookie. See Soupy do The Mouse! See Pookie sing
the Blues! See White Fang play fetch! See the Man At The Door torment Soupy and much, much more.
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GRIT, NOISE AND REVOLUTION: THE BIRTH OF DETROIT ROCK 'N' ROLL
DAVID CARSON
 The story of the great garage-inspired, blue collar Motor City rock 'n' roll bands that exemplified the Detroit rock sound: the MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels, SRC, the Bob Seger System, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes and Grand Funk Railroad. The first book to chronicle Detroit music of the 1960s and 70s- a pivotal era in rock music.
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TV LAND-DETROIT
GORDON CASTELNERO
 
TV Land-Detroit profiles twenty six of the most popular local TV 
personalities and programs from the Golden Age of Detroit television.
A treasure trove of fun facts and inside stories, Castelnero has the
inside scoop on Detroit's most fondly remembered TV stars.
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FROM SOUPY TO NUTS! A HISTORY OF DETROIT TELEVISION
TIM KISKA
 A nostalgic trip thru five decades of Detroit television, Tim Kiska's
From Soupy To Nuts! is a must-have for anyone who yearns for the
days when Bill Kennedy was King of the TV Airwaves, the Lady of Charm
was Queen and Sonny Eliot was the Joker. From Bill Bonds to
Mr. Belvedere, Soupy Sales to The Scene and everyone in-between.
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SOUPY SEZ- MY LIFE AND ZANY TIMES
SOUPY SALES with CHARLES SALZBERG
 
In 1953 an unemployed comic named Soupy Hines drove to Detroit
looking for work. Seven years later Soupy Sales was one of the highest
paid television personalities in the country. Now Soupy tells all, as
he celebrates more than fifty years as a true television legend. 

STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD IT! SOUPY SALES' FAVORITE JOKES
SOUPY SALES
 Hundreds of hilarious jokes as only Soupy can tell 'em.
Some are slightly risqué, but all are extremely funny! Old School
humor presented with expert Sales-manship!
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THE BIRTH OF THE DETROIT SOUND: 1940-1964
MARILYN BOND and S.R. BOLAND
 A treasury of photos tracing the roots of Rock 'n Roll and Rhythm
and Blues, Detroit style. The authors have collected hundreds of
rare photographs of the recording artists, promoters, disk jockeys and
venues that were popular in the Detroit of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
There's much more to the Detroit sound than Berry Gordy and Motown,
as this book proves.

THE GHOUL SCRAPBOOK
RON SWEED and MIKE OLSZEWSKI
 Hey, Ova-Dey! Grab your Kielbasi and plunk 'yer magic twanger, it's
the Ghoul Scrapbook! Ron Sweed, better known as the Ghoul, hosted 
Grade-Z Horror flicks on Detroit's Channel 50 between 1971 and 1975.
Lots ofcool photographs and hardly any big words, an absolute must
for any Ghoul fan.

DETROIT'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
RONNIE MINOR, LAURIE ANNE TAMBORINO & THE PARADE CO.
 A unique assortment of photographs chronicling the history of
J.L. Hudson's Thanksgiving Parade and Detroit's Thanksgiving Parade.
A nostalgic look at the floats, balloons, bands and characters that
marched along Woodward Avenue every Thanksgiving day since 1924.

HI THERE, BOYS AND GIRLS!
TIM HOLLIS
 An encyclopedic history of America's local kid's TV programming.
Hollis has gathered information from nearly every local show and
organized it state by state, city by city. Michigan and Detroit
shows are well represented, along with hundreds of other local
TV markets.

TVPARTY! TELEVISION'S UNTOLD TALES
BILLY INGRAM
 A campy look at classic television, TVparty! dishes the dirt on the
classic TV shows you grew up with. Based on the TVparty website,
the book gives you  the lowdown on the Dual-Darrins  of Bewitched,
classic sit-com homes, Lucy's final days, Gene Roddenberry's lost
TV pilots and dozens of other great stories, including a look at
Detroit's own Milky the Clown. Comes with a bonus CD-Rom loaded
with rare TV clips.  RECOMMENDED!

THE VERNOR'S STORY- FROM GNOMES TO NOW
LAWRENCE  L. ROUCH
 Vernors, that deliciously different drink, is a Detroit original.
Invented by druggist James Vernor in 1866, it is the oldest soft
drink in the United States. Rouch  chronicles the history of the
gingery beverage from it's humble beginnings in the 1880s at
James Vernor's Pharmacy on Woodward Avenue to its
acquisition by Cadbury Schweppes in the 1990s.

HUDSON'S - DETROIT'S LEGENDARY DEPARTMENT STORE
MICHAEL HAUSER and MARIANNE WELDON
 
J.L. Hudson's Department Store was a Detroit icon. Hauser and
Weldon have amassed hundreds of rare photographs of "the big
store," from the magical window displays and magnificent
architecture to the spectacular departments that stocked everything
from grand pianos to spools of thread. RECOMMENDED!

ROCKIN' DOWN THE DIAL- THE DETROIT SOUND OF RADIO
DAVID CARSON
 The history of Detroit radio and its personalities from the mid 1940s
thru the 1970s.  From Jack the Bellboy to the Payola scandal of the 
50s to the Big 8 and the beginning of underground radio, Carson tells
the story of Detroit's biggest air personalities and classic radio
stations. The definitive book on the evolution of Detroit radio.  
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CLUTCH CARGO- TELEVISION'S FIRST COMIC STRIP  Vol.1
26 Color Episodes on 3 DVDs
 
This cartoon has everything.  Beautifully drawn,  but (very) limited 
animation, clever writing  and best of all...LIVE ACTION LIPS! As a cost 
cutting measure human lips were superimposed over the drawings, giving 
the cartoon a bizarre but charming quality. Clutch and his pals Spinner
and Paddlefoot made their first Detroit TV appearance on WWJ-TV,  in
1959. In the early 1960s Clutch and the gang could be seen mornings on
WXYZ-TV as part of FUNEWS.

THE OUTLAWS IS COMING- THE THREE STOOGES
with Johnny Ginger- B/W 91 minutes, DVD
 Producer Norman Mauer had a brilliant idea. Film a western starring The
Three Stooges, and populate it with some of the country's most beloved
local TV kid's show hosts. Each local host would then promote the movie on
their TV show. Detroit TV was represented by WXYZ's Johnny Ginger, who
played Billy the Kid in the film. This was the Stooges' last feature film, and
its not too bad. Goofs And Saddles, a bonus short, is included.
FELIX THE CAT-  COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Color- 105 minutes, DVD with extras
 Join Felix the Cat and his  pal Poindexter as they try to outwit The
Professor, his henchman Rock Bottom and the evil metal menace Master 
Cylinder in ten original TV episodes from 1958. DVD extras include the
original promo reel used to sell the series, an interview with animation
historian John Canemaker, Feline Follies; a bonus Felix short from 1919
and a Felix Sing-Along. Felix cartoons were first seen on Detroit TV in
1958, on WWJ's Milky's Party Time.