Milwaukee Junction
Your group will visit a host of historic sites related to our region’s automotive history during this unique tour. The Society’s trained tour guide will hop on board your bus and delight your group with a 90-minute narrative. Milwaukee Junction Guidebooks are also available for purchase so that your group can follow along with the tour!

Belle Isle by Bus
Our trained guide will hop on your bus as your group explores this unique oasis on the Detroit River. Visitors will learn about the history of the island and visit some of the fountains, sculptures and landmarks that make Belle Isle so popular. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes.

Detroit: Remember When II
Released by WTVS Channel 56, Detroit: Remember When II explores the American dream and the automobile through 100 years of Motor City memories. The 66-minute film is a celebration of the city that put the world on wheels and the people whose lives were forever changed. From the vision of the assembly line to the roar of the V-8, see how Detroit's promise of a better life attracted thousands to “The City of Champions.”

Detroit: Ruin of a City
This 92-minute film written by Bristol Docs, looks back on the history of the city in the twentieth century: over the rise and fall of the social system labeled by many sociologists as “Fordism”; the impact of the automobile; and its decline following the struggles brought on by factors such as globalization. Much of the story is told through a rich variety of archival footage including those capturing the early Ford plants, protests that took place during the Depression, Diego Rivera painting his famous mural “Detroit Industry,” the rise of organized labor, and the riots of both 1943 and 1967.

The Hudson’s Building
This insightful, 42-minute documentary by Gary Glaser combines the preservation-versus-demolition debate with the social and cultural impact of the much loved, 106 year-old former department store. Hudson's employee and customer interviews are featured, as well as dozens of historic photos and home movie footage. Interviews with developers, city planners, preservationists and members of Detroit City Council provide an active dialog regarding not only the issue of redevelopment versus demolition, but also how such decisions are rendered. Part nostalgia, part public affairs, The Hudson's Building documentary illustrates the depth of feelings Metro Detroiters had for the landmark.

Cinerama Adventure
Randy Gitsch and David Strohmaier wrote, directed and produced this 96-minute documentary on the long-lost three-camera, three-projector cinematic process that thrilled millions in the 1950s and 1960s. Cinerama Adventure reveals how Cinerama changed the evolution of movies to the widescreen, stereo experience of today. Features cameo appearances from many of Hollywood’s well-known stars.

Boston-Edison Walking Tour
July 26 / 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Still another successful offering that’s being reprised! Join Jerald Mitchell as he once again guides a tour of a portion of this more than 900-home neighborhood where no two houses are alike. Most homes were constructed between 1905 and 1925 and range in size from modest two-story dwellings to impressive mansions. Early residents of Boston Edison included Henry Ford, James Couzens, Horace Rackham, Sebastian Kresge and Joe Louis.
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Woodmere Cemetery
August 2 / 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Gail Hershenzon offers an historic stroll through Woodmere Cemetery’s 200 rolling acres featuring ornate mausoleums, an old Civil War monument and headstones dating back to the 1860s. Michigan auto magnates David Buick and Henry Leland (a brilliant innovator who built engines for Olds and Cadillac) are buried here.
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Foran’s Irish Pub
August 9  / 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Join us on this first-time tour of a recently restored pub with a storied past. Foran’s Irish Pub has made its home in a building with a rich and diverse history. The structure — located on Woodward in downtown Detroit — dates back to 1879 and was originally the Traub Bros. & Co. jewelry store. The Grand Trunk Railway began using the facility as a ticket office in 1910. The Metropole Hotel turned it into a bar in 1935 and it has remained a pub ever since.
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Fox Theatre Tour and Organ Performance
August 16 / 9 a.m. to noon
David Calendine provides a unique behind-the-scenes experience including an organ performance on this special morning tour. Built for William Fox (1879–1952) and the Fox Theatre chain, the Detroit Fox is the largest and most exotic eclectic Hindu-Siamese- Byzantine theater of the “golden age of the movie palace (1925–1930).” The Fox stands today, along with its 1929 twin, the St. Louis Fox Theatre, as one of the few remaining movie palaces in the country.
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Mt. Elliott Cemetery Walking Tour
August 23 / 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Today, more than 165 years after Mt. Elliott Cemetery was created, it continues to be a stately and serene environment in which to memorialize a loved one. In the fall of 1869, 1,490 graves were removed from Detroit's Old City Cemetery on Beaubien Farms and re interred here. The cemetery also holds the distinct honor as the home for the Firemen’s Fund Monument.
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Monday, September 8th

Assumption Grotto
Grosse Pointe Memorial Presbyterian
Christ Church Grosse Pointe
St. Paul’s on the Lake Roman Catholic
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Packard Proving Grounds Tour
September 20 / 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In 1925, the Packard Motor Car Company realized that testing its products on the streets of Detroit had its limitations and that it was time to build a proper testing facility. Packard dedicated the million-dollar Proving Grounds — with buildings designed by renowned industrial architect Albert Kahn in 1927 — and began a rigorous testing program. In contrast to the rugged test roads, an exceptionally smooth 2.5 mile oval track was built for high-speed testing and was so well engineered that drivers could travel around the banked curves in excess of 100 mph. In 1928, it was hailed as "the world’s fastest speedway" when Leon Duray set a world speed record of 148.7 mph.
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Historic Corktown Walking Tour
September 27  / 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lunch included
Still another “back by popular demand” tour, Corktown is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, established in the 1830s. As the initial destination of many of the city’s immigrant populations, the Corktown Historic District has been home to the people who built and worked in Detroit's factories during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Monday, October 6th

St. Gabriel Roman Catholic
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic
St. Peter – St. Paul Orthodox Cathedral
Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic
Ste. Anne Roman Catholic
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Monday, November 3rd

Cass Community United Methodist
St. Aloysius Roman Catholic
Christ Church Detroit
St. Peter & St. Paul Jesuit
Sweetest Heart of Mary Catholic
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Monday, December 1

(organ performance included)
St. John –St. Luke UCC
St. John’s Episcopal
Cathedral of St. Paul – Episcopal
Mariner’s Independent Anglican St
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