![]() ![]() Rick Stevers grew up in seemingly idyllic Allen Park, the son of a police officer. The structure, which is 80 feet tall and weighs 12 tons, was moved to Allen Park in 1966. The city’s main roadside attraction was previously a Ferris wheel at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. Many of the auto company’s offices and facilities are still located within the city limits as is the Uniroyal Tire, the world’s largest sculpture of a tire. Composed of tree-lined streets and neat brick houses, the city was closely associated with the Ford Motor Company. The Frijid Pink saga began in Allen Park, a suburb of Detroit located in the southern part of Wayne County. The band would chart one more album and two singles before the original band line-up underwent some significant changes in personnel. They were the first rock group from the Motor City to chart a Top Ten single, 1970’s “House Of The Rising Sun”, and the first to have their self-titled debut LP crack the Top Twenty on Billboard’s Top Albums chart. ![]() Frijid Pink was one of the most successful of the many hard rock bands emanating from Detroit in the late 60’s and early 70’s. ![]()
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