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- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- 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)
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Avenue W: 1910
Detroit, 1910. "Woodward Avenue." A prequel to the bustling scene depicted here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Pianos Everywhere!
No shortage of pianos in 1910 Detroit - Apollo, Grinnell Bros., Germain, and then in the 1912 photo - Melville Clark, Bush & Lane, Manufacturers, Cable and Tarrand. Billy Joel would be in heaven here.
My aching back
Interesting the piano dealers seem to have all grouped together. Even more interesting is the one advertising they are on the fifth floor! Yikes!
Not entirely gone.
A few notable survivors here and there.
The sequel
It’s very much worth visiting the suggested link to see the bustling scene two years later. Of particular note in the 1912 scene is the woman alighting from the streetcar on the left, as a small crowd of men in boaters gallantly wait. The woman about to descend the streetcar steps is a vision in white, her head a gauzy swirl.
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