  Goirish1966 Member Username: Goirish1966 Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2007 |
I am attempting to assist a friend who is looking for photographs of some older arenas from the Detroit area. Specifically, the Arena Gardens, the Motor City Arena, and the Fairview Gardens in Detroit and the Chesterfield Arena in East Detroit. Would anyone have any advise or know someone who might have photographs of the arenas?? Thanks, jim | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1530 Registered: 11-2003 |
have you tried to do a google image search? | ||
Goirish1966 Member Username: Goirish1966 Post Number: 42 Registered: 02-2007 |
I had not tried it yet, but after using the search, nothing showed up. | ||
Rickinatlanta Member Username: Rickinatlanta Post Number: 144 Registered: 07-2006 |
The only photo I've found of the old Arena Gardens is in a book written by Lindy Lindell called "Metro Detroit Boxing" which is a paperback in a series of Michigan History and available at most bookstores you can go to. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2418 Registered: 10-2006 |
If you are looking for digital, it never hurts to start with the "Virtual Motor City" collection: http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=vmc | ||
Rickinatlanta Member Username: Rickinatlanta Post Number: 145 Registered: 07-2006 |
VMC has the same picture I referenced above. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2425 Registered: 10-2006 |
Might have to go old school and hit up the microfiche... | ||
Melody Member Username: Melody Post Number: 176 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just out of curiosity what are the photos for? | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1475 Registered: 12-2003 |
Those were mostly wrestling joints, some were turned into roller rinks. You can find photos of all in the newspaper archives. You can see the Arena Gardens online by looking at the archived Detroit News photos in the Walter Reuther Library's collection, at Go to http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu and click on "photojournalism." They only have a portion of the complete collection online, and they rarely credit them properly. | ||
Jerrytimes Member Username: Jerrytimes Post Number: 128 Registered: 04-2007 |
Where in East Detroit was the Chesterfield area located? | ||
Rickinatlanta Member Username: Rickinatlanta Post Number: 146 Registered: 07-2006 |
Again, this is the same picture I mentioned twice. Arena Gardens was not "mostly a wrestling joint". Wrestling back in the 1930's was as big as boxing so most of these venues featured both boxing and wrestling. Arena Gardens also featured the dancing competitions as well. Also not much on microfilm as I've looked at over 1,500 days of papers from the Detroit News from 1930 - 1934. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1476 Registered: 12-2003 |
There's more in the negatives, because it includes unpublished photos as well. |
