  Caquail Member Username: Caquail Post Number: 40 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.86.16.177 |
Recently one of my aunts sent my Dad some pictures of him as a kid. The pictures were taken sometime in the late 1940s. My Dad lived on the lower east side and thinks the photos were taken at Belle Isle, but is not sure. There are statues in the picture that he does not remember seeing on Belle Isle on more recent visits. The problem is I am not sure how to insert pictures into a post on the forum. | ||
Panson Member Username: Panson Post Number: 764 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
https://www.detroityes.com/forum/bo ard-formatting.html | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 868 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.246.13.131 |
Carquail can you email them to me? click on my name for the email addy. I can format them to the right size. They can be no larger then 550x550 for posting, and should be jpeg format. If they are, just click the Upload Attachment button. | ||
Caquail Member Username: Caquail Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.86.17.1 |
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Caquail Member Username: Caquail Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.86.17.1 |
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Caquail Member Username: Caquail Post Number: 43 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.86.17.1 |
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Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 2632 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.215.243.150 |
Bingo on the first one... http://www.detroithistorical.o rg/collections/vewebsite2/exhi bit3/e30021b.htm On Belle Isle along the Zoo. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 876 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.246.13.131 |
A blow up and enhancement of the marker. It appears to say Schiller  here is a new picture of the statue http://detroit1701.psc.isr.umich.edu/Graphics/Schiller%20Statue.jpg his name is Johann Schiller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller Still searching for the location of the statue | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 2633 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.215.243.150 |
Here's the second one... http://www.detroithistorical.o rg/collections/vewebsite2/exhi bit3/e30023a.htm Also on Belle Isle, it's the base of a flag pole. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 877 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.246.13.131 |
Good work Hamtramck_steve! oops! (Message edited by Psip on January 17, 2006) | ||
Shark Member Username: Shark Post Number: 175 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 68.76.49.69 |
Cool pics! I like all the trees behind the Schiller statue. | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 2634 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.215.243.150 |
Nothing more relaxing than going to the park in your good suit. caquail, who's the guy along with your dad? I'm assuming an uncle. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5372 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.42.168.211 |
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Caquail Member Username: Caquail Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.86.17.1 |
The man in the photo is my Dad's brother in law and Jeff had the same reaction that my sister had when she saw the photo. (The young boy in the suit my Uncle Ed) According to my Dad his brother in law attended a wedding of a daughter of a member of the Purple Gang, at which Al Capone or some representative of his was present. Reception was held at the Book Cadillac. The story goes he was friends with some of the members of the gang but not a member. Regards C.A.Quail as soon as I get a chance I will post some pictures of Hudson's from 1962 and some riverfront pictures from 69 | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 474 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.212.169.194 |
Al Capone did send a couple representatives to Detroit to meet with the Purple Gang. They went to the meet up and were mowed down. Somehow, I doubt they went to a wedding first, but you never know. | ||
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1428 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 72.16.51.242 |
Here is what CP had to say about the Smith flagpole: CORRADO PARDUCCI: You know, that flagpole on Belle Isle, Sam Cashwan. . . . You know, there’s a flagpole that Johnson—is it Johnson?—they had the schoolchildren put up dimes for it. The committee in charge of that flagpole gave the job to Sam Cashwan. You know Sam Cashwan? DENNIS BARRIE: Yes. CORRADO PARDUCCI: Very talented. And Albert Kahn was on the art commission, and he didn’t like his design. So he asked me if I would make a sketch of that flagpole. And Sam Cashwan had a rectangular base. At one side he had a figure, see? So I made the sketch of what that thing is; I made a clay, a rough clay model, while Kahn was in the place. I just did it very fast. And they gave Cashwan the medallion of a portrait on it—that’s all he did—to pay him for his. . . . But the work actually drifted to me, you see. Albert Kahn, who was on the art commission, he had the, just didn’t accept the scheme that Cashwan had, see. But I don’t recall very many jobs where I collaborated with some other sculptor, outside of what I mentioned to you. |
