The Nankin Township Historical Society

Here's a 1959 postcard of Satellite Lanes in Inkster. It was located at Michigan and Gulley. It had a space age look and apparently a coffee shoppe where the author of this card, Maggie, had breakfast on August 28th before sending this card to her parents Mr/ & Mrs. Harry M. Frost? in Akron, Ohio.

Detroit Free Press , June 5, 1959 Nothing spices up a summer carnival like a little nude dancing from some southern gals. Or so thought two members of the Wayne County rackets squad (tennis? I guess that I should have read this better since one was a cop and the other a prosecutor) who treated 16 teenage boys to the show at the Harris-Kehrer post of the VFW in Inkster. Which sounds like a grooming ritual of sorts and one father, after hearing of the episode from his son, thought so, too, and c alled the cops. The men, Alfred A. Goldfarb, assistant prosecutor, and Harry Sparks, deputy sheriff, I'm assuming, were sent to DeHoCo (or did they claim that it was a sting?) along with the dancers and others involved in the illegal activity. The arrested dancers and their accomplices are listed as Nellie B. Jones, Gastonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Gentry, Maryville, Tennessee, Lucy Jude, Stirrat, West Virginia and Robert E. Miller, Tampa, Florida were all sent to the Detroit House of Corr...

Detroit Free Press , July 17, 1959 Thanks to the snow, its shoveling and the lack of newspaper search results I present you this little photo caption. While the Free Press is mostly an entertainment rag with faulty information and spelling, it did have a decent heart at certain durations of its long existence. Namely to the sick and poor. The Sunbeam Club (c. 1917) was set up for sick children to communicate with other such children through the newspaper. Whereby they would obtain addresses of those who inter ested the reader and they would become pen pals.  The Free Press Fresh Air Camp (c. 1906) was a service that persisted even longer and gave sick children the opportunity to go to a camp for 10 days or so to regain their health. Obviously there was one at Sylvan Lake but the location may have changed over the years. I don't really want to delve into for obvious reasons of time. At one point I started collecting articles from the Sunbeam Club but despite the troves of inform...

I've written about feather parties previously so no preamble will be necessary on that front. This one was held at St. Cyril's Parish in Taylor by the Men's Club on November 13-14, 1959 and tickets were 3 for a buck. Potential prizes were a name brand portable dishwasher, name brand Hi-Fi (I'm guessing television or stereo) and 25 consolation prize hams. William Labadie Prescription Service, 18753 Ecorse Road, WArwick 8-1000 and Voran Funeral Home, 5900 Allen Road, WArwick 8-2300, both of Allen Park, were sponsors. While Voran Funeral home is still servicing the downriver area, Labadie's appears to be defunct. The tickets were unearthed from a box at an estate sale in Romulus, Michigan a few years back.