Below: Woodward Ave. between Larned & Jefferson_March 25, 1956 Note Kern's in the background

 

Below: Woodward at Fort St._June 19, 1952

 

Below: Street car along Woodbridge at Atwater   Neat old Vernor's truck!

 

 

Below: John C. Lodge expressway_12-04-1950.  Note the New York Central steam locomotive crossing the Lodge!

 

Below: Davison Ave. before_1941   

 

Below:  Davison Expressway after_November 1942

 

Below: Detroit Motor Bus route_1924.  Note the "eastside" city limit;  Helen St. was the sticks back then!

 

Below:  Belle Isle Motor Coach Station_1923 - Note: Electric Park in the background

 

Below: Capitol Park Bus station_circa 1962

 

Below: Construction of Edsel Ford Freeway at Woodward

 

Below:  Recognize the any of the names in the following photos? 

    

 

Below:  Memories of Sibley at Dix!                                                       
  

 

 

Below: Cool Corvair!
 

Old Detroit  

I didn't know that Detroit had the busiest intersection in the world at one time. 
I find it hard to believe it wasn't in New York or Paris . But, then, it is the city that put the world on wheels and at one time 
was the single manufacturing place for all American cars. 


Woodward between 6 and 7 mile roads (1908) 

Same stretch of road between 6 and 7 mile roads (1909) 

Busiest intersection in the World; Michigan and Woodward (1920) 

Shoppers wait for the streetcar on Woodward at State Street, Nov. 25, 1949 

Highland Park at Woodward and Puritan (1956) 

In 1941, what had been Davison Avenue in Detroit was rebuilt into the world's first 
urban depressed freeway, opening for traffic on November 24, 1942. 

                                                                                                                                                                        

Newly opened to help ease traffic on Woodward at 8 Mile (1965) 

Hudson 's building circa 1983, building was imploded in 1998. 

Campus Martius been a gathering place for Detroiters for two centuries (Jan. 2007) 

Bob-Lo Island (1964) 

Bob-Lo Boat (1970)

We all rode this Roller Coaster; didn't we? 

  
Gladys Knights former home on LaSalle 

Henry Ford's former home on Edison 

Marvin Gaye's former home on Appoline

 


Malcolm X's childhood home on Keystone 

Florence Ballard's former home on West Buena Vista 

Smokey Robinson's former home on Belmont 

Stevie Wonder's former home on Greenlawn

  
In 1957, Mike and Marion Ilitch lived in this house on Chalfonte