  Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 205 Registered: 01-2007 |
 Not sure exactly where this is. It may or may not be Detroit. For a larger version of the photo, please click here Ookpik | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 811 Registered: 12-2005 |
I don't know, but there are a few subtle clues that might help others: note the "Red Cross" in the window of the office next door to AAA and also the unusual pole next to the mailbox in front of AAA. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3091 Registered: 10-2004 |
if it comes down to narrowing it down to a few choices, the use of the PO's letter-drop Web site could come in handy because most of the ancient letter drop sites are still in place today. | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 32 Registered: 11-2006 |
I think that whoever took the picture was just trying to get a shot of the babe crossing the street. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 209 Registered: 01-2007 |
Waz, you are more correct than you realize. I have thousands of photos from this photographer and he/she never seemed to pass up the opportunity to photograph a woman, especially from behind. Ookpik | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2118 Registered: 12-2005 |
HAHAHA! If the photographer were reading this thread today, he'd probably ask "Buildings? What Buildings?"  | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2121 Registered: 12-2005 |
Hey, Ookpik, do you plan on publishing a book of these photos someday? If so, it sounds like a great project. I'd buy a copy. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 210 Registered: 01-2007 |
Jimaz, that is one of the many possibilities I am considering. Whatever I decide, I would like to make the collection available to the widest audience possible whether that be via a book, the internet, donation, exhibition, etc. I mean, who wouldn't want to pay $25 and go to the DIA and see a photo like this:  Ookpik | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2123 Registered: 12-2005 |
HA! I caught myself looking for clues of the location in the background waves then realized that this is Terryh's field of expertise. Spot that rump.  | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 2086 Registered: 06-2004 |
The columned building on the far right seems like it would be immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with the street. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 2124 Registered: 12-2005 |
Back on topic, one of those buildings looks like the style in Rochester or Utica but the others don't match. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 1508 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: I wouldn't. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1104 Registered: 02-2007 |
I have to agree with Pam on that one. | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1411 Registered: 11-2003 |
Looks like a Detroit fire hydrant. What is up with the lightpost? Is that from Detroit? Also, I can't make it out, but there is a sign on the white building to the right of the red cross building. Also in front of that building seems to be a panel truck with some naming on the side.... | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 2087 Registered: 06-2004 |
Can't read it but the sign on the white building looks a lot like a Western Union sign, doesn't it? This doesn't feel like a Detroit photo - it seems more like a small city in the two-block-long downtown category. | ||
Quozl Member Username: Quozl Post Number: 565 Registered: 07-2005 |
Adrian, Michigan | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1064 Registered: 08-2006 |
Damn! Granny was smokin' in her day. | ||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 117 Registered: 01-2005 |
 Note this woman is carrying what appears to be an envelope in her left hand and what appears to be some sort of clutch in her right. Perhaps a small change purse. Also note she is wearing what appears to be an apron, she is also wearing low flat shoes and the hair is done in a tail as to infer that she didn’t want her hair to interfere with her work. My guess would be she was a waitress or some counter help. Her age at the time of the image was in the area of eighteen to thirty noting her stride and posture. Just giving my observations of this image. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1143 Registered: 02-2007 |
Do take into account that your observations could very well be obsolete when taking into Account the AAA and waht appears to be a flower shop in the direction she's walking. (Message edited by Urbanize on May 07, 2007) (Message edited by Urbanize on May 07, 2007) | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 214 Registered: 01-2007 |
Interesting observations Flybydon. I felt that she was going to mail a letter as not only is there an envelope in her hand but a mail box directly in her path. Ookpik | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1144 Registered: 02-2007 |
Looking at the style of the buildings, it may be an exburban Town in some other place. | ||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 118 Registered: 01-2005 |
Urbanize: I'm missing the flower shop. Are you seeing more than I?  | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 510 Registered: 01-2007 |
I donno, Flybydon. You see all that? All I see is a fine chick with a hot ass. (Are we officially stumped on this one Ookpik?) | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 237 Registered: 01-2007 |
I think so. I'm beginning to wonder if this is even Michigan let alone somewhere in/near Detroit. I will post this one on my photoblog located here and maybe someone will recognize the location. Ookpik | ||
Detroitfan Member Username: Detroitfan Post Number: 6 Registered: 04-2007 |
Ookpik, I believe the building you are trying to identify on your photoblog is by the architect H.H. Richardson. If memory serves the photo is of the Allegheny County Courthouse and jail,in Pittsburgh, Pa. If not,Richardson's work is pretty well documented and should be fairly easy to cross ref. Hope this helps. Detroitfan | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 2226 Registered: 06-2004 |
Do you have any other photos that might be related to this one - from a different angle, taken/printed on the same day, bundled in the same batch like they're off the same roll, etc.? | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 238 Registered: 01-2007 |
Detroitfan - Thanks for the tip! I'm not sure it is the courthouse but it definitely appears to be the work of H.H. Richardson. Lilpup - I do but unfortunately they do not help - kids playing, baby, lady with a little girl, etc., etc. Typical family stuff that doesn't provide any additional clues. Ookpik | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 888 Registered: 12-2005 |
I too, first thought that other photo was of the Allegheny County Courthouse. But since it had been ten years since I had last seen it, I checked out some images of the Courthouse and it is clearly not the building in Ookpik's old photo. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 521 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ookpik,I know this is a shot in the dark but: I sent an e-mail to AAA of Detroit to see if they could help us out. I'll let you know if they send back a response. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 240 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thanks Bullet!  Ookpik | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 524 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ook, I did receive a response from AAA today. I could not determine if it was a bot or human, but they did get back. I wrote a follow up to the original question to keep the ball rolling. I would be happy to forward AAA’s e-mail response to you if wish. If you don’t want to publish your e-mail address here, let me know and I will give you one of mine. Bullet | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3220 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeh! Write AAA and ask them if they have anything written about a cute chick with a hot ass ever mailing a letter near one of their offices that probably closed a few decades ago. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 526 Registered: 01-2007 |
I know I should have told you earlier Livernoisyard, but I sent them a link to this page! | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 3222 Registered: 10-2004 |
You might be surprised at how much old information and data from the past wasn't saved at all and was disposed after but a few years, especially before computerization, which started during the 1950s or 1960s. Most newspapers didn't even go digital until the late 1970s. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 528 Registered: 01-2007 |
Like I said: A shot in the dark...And, we may be surprised at what was saved, after all, the photo was. | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 241 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bullet - If you don't mind, please post your e-mail address. I would be interested to read AAA's response - canned or not. Thanks! Ookpik | ||
Homer Member Username: Homer Post Number: 178 Registered: 08-2004 |
As for the fire plug.It doesn't look like any I have seen in Detroit. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 529 Registered: 01-2007 |
john_doe395@hotmail.com |
