Could this image have been taken on the same day as this image? https://www.shorpy.com/node/11496?size=_original#caption
Driver has the same bowler hat and same black velvet collar on his jacket. Location is within a half-mile -- one image is on Belle Isle and the other is on Jefferson Avenue and East Grand Blvd. entrance road to Belle Isle.

The car appears to be the same. Back in 2011 I thought the car was a Packard Model 24 or "S" from 1906 somewhat based on the circa year of 2008. Now as I compare the two images the car is still a Packard but maybe a Runabout Model 30 or Model 18 from either 1907 to 1909.

Finally, in Doug Floor Plan's image of the French Norman/Queen Anne home there is a building two doors down (to the south) with a curved archway. That building at 112 East Grand Blvd was one of Detroit's first ever charging stations for Baker and Detroit Electric cars.

I've been a Shorpy aficionado for years now... and one thing (among many) I've noticed is that even back 100 years, the "hot cars" were more likely than not, driven by older men who had the means to afford the toys, and who were looking to a machine to give them one last "giddy-up". Nowadays, I see the older men in my town taking their mid-engine Corvettes or their 911s out for a leisurely spin through the center of town. The equation between age, earning power, and automotive consumption has not changed in over 100 years.

The car looks like an earlier Packard Model L from about 1904, perhaps with non factory fenders with a step in between. The Packard 30 wasn't introduced until 1907.

My grandmother in Detroit had a big double brick house with the upstairs porch. I loved their great view and giant elm trees lining the street.

I used to make prank calls there all the time.

The tavern survived Prohibition but not Mad Men.

Per the Detroit Free Press of May 25, 1936, demolition of the Old Moesta Tavern was about to begin. The plan was to erect an advertising sign on the site, which was and is on the corner of the entry to Belle Isle.

The building had earlier been physically moved back so it wouldn’t be in the middle of Jefferson Blvd when it was widened.

After the demolition, the business was to reopen in an existing building behind the new sign. Our longtime family business sat about a block away (and has been a grassy field since the ‘70’s).

The Freep bemoaned the pending loss of the bar in the legacy building. It was originally built and used by by Strohs Brewery and was installed in the tavern about 1889. Wonder what happened to it. Today it would be transplanted to a cherished new location.

For years, places like Senate Resale/Detroit Antique Mall would recycle the endless stream of elaborate Detroit Detritus, intricate building material mined from locals demolishing what was left behind from decades of an incredible building and business boom that wasn’t sustained.

Today the intersection of East Jefferson Avenue and East Grand Boulevard is unrecognizable compared to the 1910 photo. But this once beautiful French Norman/Queen Anne house on E Grand in this photograph is the same house as in street view, below. To the right is the intersection where Moesta's Tavern once resided, now the site of a Tim Hortons drive thru; or a Starbucks if you pull into the parking lot.

Packard Model 30