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- Possibly still there?
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- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
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- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
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- I wonder
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- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
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- Fallen Flags
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- Great shot
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Hotel Vincent: 1905
Saginaw, Michigan, circa 1905. "Hotel Vincent." Try our depot shuttle. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
French Dry Cleaning
I thought at first the sign, middle-left, said "French Fry Cleaning" But what the heck is French Dry Cleaning?
[Dry cleaning, or "French dry cleaning," as it was called, is cleaning without water. - Dave]
Re: Fire Escapes
Along with the possible other problems, that last step is a doozy!
A Fun Afternoon Investigation
From History of Saginaw County we see that the Hotel Vincent was on the corner of Washington and Germania.
Google Maps doesn't show a Germania Street in Saginaw. According to Saginaw: Labor & Leisure it was changed in WWI to Federal Street.
So at the corners of Federal and Washington we see today on Google Maps the remnants of a little building to the right of the Vincent Hotel with the three windows on the third floor. From that, here's what the corner looks like today.
Fire escapes
Do those fire escapes have access from a hall, or do you have to break into someone's room to get to one? Given the size of the building, the number of fire escapes reminds me of the lifeboat count on the Titanic.
Washington and Germania
It appears that (according to the maps and city records) that this hotel stood on the corner of Washington and Germania Avenues. I'm assuming that Germania was changed to Federal due to anti-German sentiment during WWI.
Map showing where the Hotel Vincent Once Stood marked as "1.".
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