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10 Aug The Economic Roots That Contributed to Detroit’s Worst Summer

Posted at 15:01h in Business, News, Oral History
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Published by Crain's Detroit Business At one point, Joe Von Battle's record store in Detroit had an inventory of 35,000 albums and the equivalent of almost $2.5 million in revenue. That was in the late 1940s, when Joe's Record Shop on Hastings Street was just one...

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