Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1701, French trader Antoine de la Moth, Sieyur de Cadillac, founds the town of Detroit to control the fur trade in the region. The name was originally La Ville d'Etroit, but we dropped the apostrophe faster than a bad girlfriend. My favorite story about Detroit was from a black Marine in Viet Nam who related that all the white officers would say, after they learned he was from Detroit, silly things like, DEE-troit, or Motor City, and they they would laugh. The Marine shook his head and said, "Ain't nothing special about Detroit--ain't nothing too funny about it, neither."
Labels: Detroit
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 11:21 AM 
