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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Wayneworld: 1912
Detroit circa 1912. "Wayne County Building and Cadillac Square." Along with a glimpse of the Detroit River. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Burns Not Burns
So wait, per archfan, the Burns Hotel is no longer standing, but did NOT burn down?? I'm not sure if this is a Shorpy First, or a Shorpy Miracle!
Dynamic duo
This photo is a reminder that downtown Detroit was very dynamic around this time, because of all the automotive profits sloshing around. There is a triangular building labelled 'Goebel Building' that is still standing. It was built as the Reid Building in 1895 but had been been renamed the Goebel Building by 1912 - today it hosts a hipster barber.
By the early 1920s, a developer took down all the buildings on the left side of the square to replace them with bigger ones. Hotel Wrobeck, closest in that block to the Wayne County building, became the Lawyer's Building.
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