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Al Ameer Restaurant at 12710 Warren recently renovated their exterior with the assistance of Dearborn's Warren Avenue Facade Improvement Program. Here's a collage comparing the new appearance to how the location looked in the early 1980s.

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@boutrous11 The one by Gulley

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Some Dearborn Taco Bell pics taken in June 1971

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Happy #NationalHamburgerDay. This recently digitized September 1971 photo shows the vicinity of Miller's Bar on Michigan Avenue.

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Join us this Saturday for a Decoration Day ceremony at the McFadden Ross House

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While the museum will be closed over the weekend, you'll still be able to see our historic vehicles participating in Monday's Dearborn Memorial Day Parade.

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The Dearborn Historical Museum and other city offices will be closed this holiday weekend until Wednesday. If you have any questions over the weekend, email us at [email protected]

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Dearborn's Memorial Day Parade returns in East Dearborn on Monday! These are some random shots from our collection depicting the parade in 1976.

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90 years ago this past weekend, the Ford Rotunda opened in Dearborn for the 1st time. It was located near the southwest corner of Rotunda and Schaefer. This image of the building which served as a Ford visitor center was taken in June 1938.

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This feature on Arab American food businesses along the 13700 block of Warren Avenue was published 35 years ago this week in the Times Herald.

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Happening Saturday at the DHM's McFadden Ross House and on the grounds

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This sketch of the Rouge Plant area was published on the front page of the Fordson Independent 100 years ago today.

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Stop by the museum Wednesday evening for a lecture by Katrina Harris on local gardening history. This lecture starts at 7 at the McFadden Ross House.

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@WWFerguson2 so the image is from a streetlighting album which makes me think its mid construction

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Given the popularity of our recent Dearborn Theater post, we wanted to share this May 1976 image of Michigan Avenue looking west. The Dearborn Theater is on the left

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Upcoming May Lectures at the DHM

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This interesting image shows the Westborn Mall parking lot looking east probably around 1968

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Some photos of Salisbury School, Dearborn's 1st elementary school

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@TheMidgetSmith You'd be much better off with shatila's ice cream than what exists of strohs today

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Here's a circa 1980 slide image of a strip mall along Michigan just west of Military matched up with an image taken today.
Sacred Heart Church is visible in the background of both images.