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The Detroit History PodcastAuthor: The Detroit History Podcast
The Detroit History Podcast returns for Season Six with a menu of programs as diverse as wrestling, bebop jazz, and a failed automobile. We'll look at the life of The Sheik, who threw fire and terrorized fellow grapplers during his wrestling career, which peaked in the 1960s and beyond. We saw something different on the road while we prepped for Season Six: an Edsel, which was the biggest flop in automotive history when it was introduced in 1957. We wanted to know: how could the smart people at Ford Motor Company fail in such a big way? We'll hear about the Bluebird Inn, a west side jazz club where Miles Davis played in 1953 and 1954. And we'll explain how the Detroit Institute of Arts grew in the 1920s, acquiring priceless Van Gogh paintings at a time when nobody knew who he was. New episodes drop every Sunday night at 8. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Special Episode- The Ted Lindsay Interview
Monday, 22 September, 2025
The Detroit Red Wings 100th season will begin soon, so The Detroit History Podcast team thought we'd revisit an interview we did 7 years ago with Detroit Red Wings all-time-great Ted Lindsay. Lindsay was a key part of the 1950s Detroit Red Wings teams that won several Stanley Cups, and was on the same line as Gordie Howe and Sid Abel, a line that Detroit media dubbed "The Production Line." On February 22nd, 2018, a little over a year before Ted Lindsay passed away at age 93, we sat down with the NHL Hall of Famer and talked about his hockey career. Reporters Bill McGraw and Bill Dow joined us for the interview. Although Lindsay was named "Terrible Ted" on the ice, he was an extraordinarily kind and thoughtful man off the ice. He had an old school hockey mentality about him that isn't around much today, as witnessed by his quote "there were 6'2 guys in the league, 6'3, they'd bleed the same as I do." This interview was part of the sixth episode of our first season "They Bleed The Same As I Do, The Detroit Red Wings in the 1950s."
