  Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1943 Registered: 12-2005 |
Looking towards downtown, July 1954 (full size)  | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1944 Registered: 12-2005 |
Looking towards the New Center, July 1954 (full size)  | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1574 Registered: 01-2007 |
Sweeeeeet! | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1946 Registered: 12-2005 |
Looking towards downtown, earlier the same day, July 1954 (full size)  | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1948 Registered: 12-2005 |
Looking towards the Ambassador Bridge, July 1954. Visible on the right are the recently-built Jeffries Towers, with the Michigan Central Station behind them. Briggs Stadium is visible in front of the left bridge tower. (full size) (enlargement)  | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 1385 Registered: 11-2003 |
That building that's now the DPD Central district HQ looks a lot better in the distance than it does now - isn't that one of those modern-facaded things, like the Keller Thoma building next to Muccioli/Bricktown on Beaubien? Grr. I don't mind modern. I dislike the facelifts. Great shots. Your second photo hasn't changed much in the intervening almost 60 years. I would love to take matching shots of the views today. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1515 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks so much for posting these, Mikem, and also providing links to higher-res versions of them! Nothing can beat vintage Kodachrome. The views towards downtown would be interesting to compare with that pre-widened Woodward 1942 photo from the L of C. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3758 Registered: 01-2005 |
July, 1954. Was one month out of Mackenzie High School, looking forward to starting at Wayne U (it wasn't WSU then) in September. Working full time at Fromm's Hardware on Grand River, getting around in my 1951 Ford, and going out to Pettibone Lake north of Milford to go bass fishing every chance I had all summer. Life was good. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8905 Registered: 10-2003 |
That first photo features "The Vortex". | ||
Staticstate Member Username: Staticstate Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2008 |
what's that tall building to the left of the Broderick? | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 355 Registered: 02-2008 |
Either Hudson's or Cadillac Tower, not sure which one your talking about. | ||
Staticstate Member Username: Staticstate Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2008 |
sorry, the one to the left of Hudson's. | ||
Drankin21 Member Username: Drankin21 Post Number: 302 Registered: 12-2003 |
the streetcars look sweet in the first picture | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 3764 Registered: 09-2007 |
quote: Cadillac Tower, or the white building (as Dtowncitylover already stated). The brown building to the left of the Broderick is Hudsons | ||
Swede1934 Member Username: Swede1934 Post Number: 61 Registered: 04-2007 |
Ray. Interesting note. I wonder if our paths crossed at Wayne. That fall I was in my sophomore year there. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3759 Registered: 01-2005 |
Well, Swede, I was in Engineering until I discovered I'd never be able to figure out how to use a slide rule, so I was in the Engineering building a lot, also Old Main for English, an old church for the Wayne Band, and AF ROTC over on Third Street. Coffee and donut every morning at the Student Union. Oh...and a ritual hour every morning looking for a parking space. Strongest memory I have of Wayne was the Student Advisor I had, who couldn't have cared less about anything. Unfortunately, only too typical. | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 2202 Registered: 07-2004 |
I love these pics!! I was born in July of 1954! |
