Kinsel's Corner

Every big city had one. It's what I call the "hot corner." An intersection of streets, usually one was the main drag, but didn't have to be. The hot corner was almost always downtown. This was the corner where you could get everything -- a bet down, a check cashed, an out-of-town newspaper (before the Internet), a girl (or the info on where to get one), a cold six pack or bottle of hard liquor.

In Detroit, until some time in the mid eighties, that corner was known as Kinsel's corner -- the corner of Michigan Avenue and Griswold Street in the heart of downtown.

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