Some Local History

     Detroit Metro Airport is the hub for residents and travelers flowing through the greater Detroit area.  Surrounding this hub are Detroit suburbs containing authentic, old-fashioned bars & grills dating back to 1940.  The route for most visitors to Detroit, by plane is along I-94 from Romulus to Detroit.

     1940 was a formative year on the West side of Metro Detroit.  At that time, the area surrounding Detroit proper wasn’t referred to as “Metro Detroit.”  But rather, residents either lived in Detroit or in the farming communities and scattered townships surrounding the Detroit boundary.

     This is the start of our blog covering authentic dive bars in Detroit and the West Side. The popularity of genuine dive bars in Metro Detroit is a resurgence of interest in all things genuine,  of a bygone era of what made Detroit Great!  Detroit Metro Airport is the hub for residents and travelers flowing through the greater Detroit area.

     Surrounding this hub are Detroit suburbs containing authentic, old-school, bars & grills dating back to 1940.  That was a formative year on the West side of Metro Detroit due to the rapid escalation of the World War II defense industry.    At that time, the area surrounding Detroit proper wasn’t referred to as “Metro Detroit.”