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The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
Race riot in which 43 people were killed [2] Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at ...
The bus the group gets on is attacked by rioters, and, in the ensuing chaos, they get split up. Larry, the lead singer, and his friend, Fred, rent a room in the nearby Algiers Motel—in a detached annex building—to get off the streets. They meet two young white women, Julie and Karen, who introduce them to Carl, Lee, Aubrey, and Michael.
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Authorities in Alabama allege a missing 1-year-old boy — whose disappearance came to light after his family members died in a car crash months after he was last seen — suffered gruesome abuse ...
The nearly 100-year-old Topanga Ranch Motel was destroyed in the blaze on Tuesday night. ... and more than 100,000 people evacuated. ... PHOTO: The Topanga Ranch Motel is shown on Jan. 8, 2025, in ...
Two people were killed in a shootout with the Bolivian police on 7–8 November 1908. Authorities were unable to identify the bodies, but they were thought to have been Robert Leroy Parker (40), (also known as Butch Cassidy) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (41–42), (also known as the Sundance Kid). [ 22 ]
SNL fans: A new book is on the way! Mary Ellen Matthews is the photographer behind Saturday Night Live's iconic "bumper" photos, the artistic and often hilarious pictures of the hosts and musical ...