Tip of the hat on this drinking holiday to the proprietors of Michigan’s Past on Twitter. On this day in Detroit, one long century ago, Detroit police were apparently banned from saloons.
Detroit Police Cannot Enter Saloons
Kalamazoo Telegraph newspaper 3/17/1915 pic.twitter.com/tUao1vhemm
— Michigan's Past (@MichiganHist) March 17, 2015Check out more from Michigan’s Past here.
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2015.
Ryan Felton was born in 1990 and spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Livonia. In 2009, after a short stint at Eastern Michigan University, he moved to Detroit where he has remained ever since.... More by Ryan Felton
