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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Print Emporium
Detroit Newsies: 1905
Detroit circa 1905. "Journal building at Fort and Wayne." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Reardon Parshall Printing Co
Behind the Journal building is a sign advertising the Reardon Parshall Printing Company. It stayed in business until the 1970's or 80's I believe, as a financial printer. I used to do business with it when it was at 550 West Fort.
Wayne Street
Wayne Street is about 3-4 blocks east of Second Street. On all of the old Detroit maps I have seen, Wayne was where today's Washington Boulevard is. Back in the day, Washington was only 4-5 blocks long from Grand Circus Park south the Michigan Avenue. The road changed names - south of Michigan Avenue to the Detroit Riverfront was known as Wayne Street.
Still Life Owlography
Those owls really work -- not a pigeon in sight.
What a Blast
This is the new Journal Building. Ten years earlier, on November 8, 1895, in one of the state's worst accidents, a boiler exploded in the Journal Building (home of the Detroit Journal newspaper and other businesses) in downtown Detroit, killing 37 people. The building engineer was arrested, accused of going to a saloon rather than watching the water levels in the boiler system.
The building shown has been torn down and replaced with an office building that occupies the block along Second St. (FKA Wayne St.) from Fort St. north to Layfayette.
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