He felt that the rich new titans of the booming automobile industry spent too much time in the Woodward Avenue pubs.

At the 1956 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, springboard divers Jeanne Stunyo of Gary, Indiana and Mackenzie High School graduate Barbara Gilders-Dudeck were sponsored by the DAC.

[3] The Last Word, a gin-based, prohibition-era cocktail, was originally developed at the Detroit Athletic Club.

In it Saucier states that the cocktail was first served around 30 years earlier at the Detroit Athletic Club.

A research in the archives of the Detroit Athletic Club by John Frizell revealed later that the drink was slightly older predating the prohibition era by a few years.

[4] While the drink eventually fell out of favor, it enjoyed a renewed popularity after being rediscovered by the bartender Murray Stenson in 2003 during his tenure at the Zig Zag Café and became a cult hit in the Seattle and Portland areas and spread to cocktail bars in major cities worldwide, ultimately spawning several variations.