  Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 1788 Registered: 07-2004 |
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/ppcs-de troit.html I was sent this cute website that shows penny postcards from different areas of the country. The link above is Detroit, Wayne County. There are lots of images of the way it used to look like around here. Forgive me if this duplicates any older thread on the Forum. When I saw it I felt happy.....after being inundated with all thats going on in the mayor's office I needed a nice respite. enjoy | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4498 Registered: 10-2003 |
Nice collection. I wonder what became of this bizarre item. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /log.jpg | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 1791 Registered: 07-2004 |
Ahhhh, such lovely, quaint days gone by....... | ||
Omaha Member Username: Omaha Post Number: 90 Registered: 12-2007 |
I used post cards like these in a Cub Scout project where I had to put together an album of some sort. I remember going with Mom to Cunninghams to buy the little black stickers that held the corners of the post cards to the album pages. Alas, the album is now long gone. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6224 Registered: 08-2004 |
Here's the Broderick (Eaton) Tower and David Whitney before their tops were modernized: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /woodwd.jpg Here's the Aviation Town & Country Building that was actually never built: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /atcc.jpg Here's the church at Grand Circus Park & Bagley that came down to expand the Tuller Hotel and be the location for the United Artists Building: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /tuller.jpg Here's the 1907-1920 old Ponchartrain Hotel in Campus Martius (after the 1916 expansion with 5 stories and a Mansart roof) before it was torn down in 1920 for the First National Building of 1922: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /wwave.jpg Here's the Hammond Building (Detroit's first skyscraper), along with the old Detroit Opera House with the (now found in Palmer Park) Merrill Fountain out front: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgen web/mi/wayne/postcards/detroit /bevwdw.jpg | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 3697 Registered: 10-2003 |
That last one is the Majestic Building, not the Hammond. That's where 1001 Woodward sits now. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1102 Registered: 11-2005 |
The church was called the Church of our Father. I don't think the church went back far enough to be the way of the UA Building. I'm pretty sure it was leveled only to make way for the Tuller addition. I have a couple of postcards in my collection that show it: http://s215.photobucket.com/al bums/cc280/buildingsofdetroit/ ?action=tags¤t=Church%20 of%20Our%20Father | ||
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis Post Number: 321 Registered: 07-2005 |
I haven't pulled out my postcards since packing them for the move out of state, but if I remember correctly the Hammond building was where Detroit Publishing was located. I have a pretty good collection of Detroit cards. |
