Book gives the goods on where famous former Detroiters lived

The book "Home in Detroit: Where They lived ... In the Motor City" takes you on a tour of the many places where some of Detroit's famous former residents once lived.

Excerpt:

But it was Burton who found the house where Hoffa lived when he was 14, the year he quit school to become a warehouseman for Kroger. It was Burton who found UAW President Walter Reuther's house on West Philadelphia Street, with the snout of a sedan peeking from the top of the driveway -- a roomy, American-nameplate Chrysler 300. The book includes more than 70 homes, from Archer, Dennis (on Lincolnshire in Palmer Woods) to Wonder, Stevie (on Greenlawn, south of Seven Mile).

The three original Supremes bought houses within 800 feet of one another on West Buena Vista Street. Actor Tom Skerritt, who once co-starred with Ellen Burstyn in a movie called "Silence of the North," lived around the corner from her when they were 6 years old -- he on Cheyenne Street on the west side, she on Ward. Broadcast legend Mike Wallace lived in an apartment building near Wayne State called The Pioneer.

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