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The Hitsville U.S.A. building in Detroit "Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters and recording studio. The house (formerly a photographers' studio) is located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit near the New Center area of the city. Motown founder Berry Gordy bought the house in 1959.
The Hitsville U.S.A. Motown building, at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Motown's headquarters from 1959 to 1968, which became the Motown Historical Museum in 1985 [13] In 1957, Gordy met Smokey Robinson, a local seventeen-year-old singer fronting a vocal harmony group called the Matadors.
2648 West Grand Boulevard Detroit: August 21, 1987: Muer's Oyster House, Inc (Demolished) 2000 Gratiot Avenue Detroit: August 3, 1979: Cornelius G. Munger General Store: Munger Lane, corner of Gibraltar and Evergreen Roads Flat Rock: November 15, 1990: Music Hall† 350 Madison Avenue Detroit: August 6, 1976: Nankin Mills: 33175 Ann Arbor Trail ...
The museum owns nearly an entire city block at the corner of Grand River and West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, currently composed of five buildings, Dabls told the Free Press. One houses the ...
Finally, in 1891, Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree supported the idea and broke ground on the construction of Grand Boulevard, a ring road that wrapped around the city of Detroit. [6] The Boulevard ran for 12 miles (19 km), curving from the Detroit River on the west and returning to that river on the east, crossing Woodward Avenue at a point ...
[2] [5] Ray located a two-story house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard as the headquarters for the new enterprise. Gordy placed her in charge of the company's publishing operations (now known as Jobete) with the assistance of her brother, Mike Ossman, and Janie Bradford , the company's first receptionist.
Road closures for the Detroit Grand Prix start the day after Memorial Day and some will last through June 5 in downtown. ... 414 Renaissance Drive West. Port Atwater Garage, 200 Beaubien Blvd.
"Freeway of Love" is interspersed with videos of automobiles being manufactured in the early 1970s (Ford Mustang) and a then-current Cadillac Cimarron, the exterior of the original Motown headquarters, "Hitsville U.S.A." at 2648 West Grand Blvd. in Detroit, as well as dancers in and around cars, sky shots of freeways, the Detroit skyline, and ...