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Work Zone: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 1:35pm.
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Detroit circa 1914. "Construction work -- grade separation from Buchanan Street." The interesting bits here are all in the distance, including a cameo by the monolith from "2001." Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
I'm sorry Dave ...
Submitted by gen81465 on Mon, 09/24/2012 - 11:09pm.
I think your monolith is a discarded cabinet or hutch; although I can't see why someone would throw out what appears to be perfectly good lumber.
Ironic
Submitted by loribl on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 7:39pm.
We have several streets in my town being paved right now and this looks amazingly like one two blocks from us. I started laughing when I saw this and thought, "This looks like outside our front door!"
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Submitted by jimboylan on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 1:05pm.
Another photo, probably of this same job, shows a large portable concrete mixer. The caption mentions that the recipe probably calls for a wagon load of sand, because a Detroit United Railways trolley locomotive crane that runs on these tracks is lifting a horse drawn dump cart full of sand up above the mixer while the unhitched horses watch from the roadway.
Never moved
Submitted by switzarch on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 1:15am.
Looks like we've found the location Kubrick used, they just built Detroit around it!
I See Him!
Submitted by Bull City Boy on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 10:26am.
In the far background: Elmer the Elongated Horse!
Is that HAL
Submitted by SteveB on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 4:12pm.
singing and talking to you, Dave? Now we know what kind of computer hosts the Shorpy site!
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