Detroit, MI
Pistons' legendary eras on display in Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Historical Museum hosts Pistons exhibition
The new and engaging museum exhibition, Thirty-Five | 20, “celebrates the determination and triumph of the ‘Detroit Bad Boys’ and the ‘Goin’ to Work’ Pistons teams,” according to the Detroit Historical Society.
DETROIT (FOX 2) – The legendary history of the Detroit Pistons will be on display at the Detroit Historical Museum starting this Saturday.
The new and engaging museum exhibition, Thirty-Five | 20, “celebrates the determination and triumph of the ‘Detroit Bad Boys’ and the ‘Goin’ to Work’ Pistons teams,” according to the Detroit Historical Society. “This dual anniversary exhibition recognizes the significance of these two great teams and will feature significant and surprising artifacts from both seasons.”
The team developed a physical and aggressive style of play, earning them the nickname the “Bad Boys” of basketball. The earliest iteration – Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, and Dennis Rodman – won back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990.
However, the “Goin’ to Work” era in the early 2000s was the Pistons’ most prolonged phase of success – with Chauncey Billups, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton, and Ben Wallace. The “Goin’ to Work” team beat the Lakers in the 2004 NBA finals.
The exhibition will feature artifacts, images, and media from the Pistons and the Detroit Historical Society’s collections, the museum announced.
“We have the actual championship trophies, we have the Pistons banners that came out of the rafters at the Palace of Auburn Hills, we have Rasheed Wallace – his championship belt,” said Jeremy Dimick, Detroit Historical Museum’s director of collections and curatorial. “If you remember Rasheed bought himself and the rest of the team, these WWE style championship belts and then they wore them opening night the following season. So we have some really great significant pieces.”
Pistons exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum.
The Detroit Historical Museum will be open until 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27 for the exhibition’s first day.
“It just brings people who don’t normally associate with ‘the other’ together and kind of provides this common ground that I think was the case then and is the case now,” Dimick said.
Season ticket holders and anyone attending the Jan 27th Pistons-Wizards game at Little Caesars Arena can show a digital ticket stub at the museum’s front desk to receive free admission all weekend.
Pistons exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum.
Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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