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- A Chorus Line
- Pier review
- Unusual beach scene
- The musical stylings of Harry Von Tilzer
- Cullen's Coney Capers
- Shenanigans
- Traditional Sicilian Salute
- Sixscore-plus years ago ...
- More about the Revere House in the 19th century
- Do yourself a favor
- Revered Location
- A place for flowers
- Precarious history with a happy ending
- Some things remain the same …
- That lovely Graham Hollywood
- Car IDs
- Cord impostor
- Hupmobile Skylark
- Pan Error
- Spectacular Photograph
- Whirring Mass
- Twin Coach Buses
- Asphalt's still there
- Lustful Practices > Gleet
- VD? KK!
- All the Best
- Banksy
- Palace theater? Gone.
- Seven-fingered Daniel
- Name on Building
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The Shape of Things to Come: 1912
August 31, 1912. "Dime Savings Bank and Detroit City Hall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Yucca, Yucca
Believe it or not, here in Ottawa, many people grow yucca. It is hardy enough to withstand an Ottawa winter.
Tombstone Folks in Town
Don't make a misstep on the girders -- but if you do, the National Retail Monument Dealers Association is in town.
Peeping Tom
So what is the guy on the first window ledge doing? I love the untold stories in these snapshots of a time long lost.
Tropical Detroit
City Hall front lawn corner. Are those palms and yucca plants I see?
A palm tree in Detroit
I doubt landscape architects or workers would put palm trees these days outside public buildings in such northern latitudes.
[But they do. Then as now, it's in a a big planter. - Dave]
What a Contrast
between old and new! The Second Empire style city hall building was completed in 1871 and demolished in 1961.
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