Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash
Post Number: 1472 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 12:13 am: | |
Here is a bit from Parducci's scrap book. What do you know about either/both buildings. No reasonable offer refused. eeeeeek
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Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 289 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 12:20 am: | |
One on the right is 751 Griswold, designed by Albert Kahn in 1927. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2013 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 8:52 am: | |
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK ! |
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage
Post Number: 146 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 9:22 am: | |
Was that bank built with architectural details on all 4 sides? The reason I ask is because the flicker photo shows it next to skyscrapers. The skyscrapers appear to butt up to two of the 4 sides. |
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 293 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 11:28 am: | |
The replica has a blank (brick) rear wall and a reiteration of the side wall on the opposite side. I doubt the actual building has three facades, it probably has just two and the other two are brick walls that meet the skyscrapers behind and to the left of it. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2057 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 10:52 am: | |
http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 6/09/lets_go_to_the_bank.html http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 6/09/more_bank_details.html |
Dougw Member Username: Dougw
Post Number: 1967 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 11:25 am: | |
751 Griswold (the one on the right) is also known as the Olde Building. |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 256 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 12:08 pm: | |
Doug is correct. I worked in 751 Griswold for OLDE Discount Stockbrokers circa 1993-1996. I lived at Cass & Bagley and would walk to work. City livin'. Anyway, interesting anecdote about 751 Griswold ... E.J. Olde hung himself with an electrical extention cord in the elevator shaft of that building. EJ Olde was Earnie Olde's son, (or Earnie Jr). He was in his 20's when he killed himself there, I believe. He hated his dad (Earnie Sr., the founder of OLDE) so much he hung himself in the OLDE HQ building as an FU. This happened one or two years before I worked at OLDE in marketing. Apparently, EJ's dad belittled him often and EJ was more of the free-spirited partier kind of guy, rather than a financially-minded broker type. He just couldn't take the pressure, I guess. The elder Olde was a mean-spirited, crooked, and quite possibly crazy person. I met him. He was a real piece of work. He's dead now too. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2178 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 12:59 pm: | |
That's some great history trivia, Spacemonkey! Thanks for posting. |