Showing posts with label detroit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detroit. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Two New Ghost Signs: Faygo and Kowalski

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The incredibly colorful and vivid Faygo ghost sign above was recently uncovered on a Detroit liquor store after the neighboring building w...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Last Days of R. Hirt Jr., 1887-2011.

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Opened in 1887 , R. Hirt Jr. closed its doors for the last time on November 19, 2011. After weathering decades of Detroit's economic u...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The DIA's Inside|Out Exhibits in the Dequindre Cut

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We were on one of our regular trips down the Dequindre Cut to the Detroit River the other day when we noticed three beautiful paintin...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Women Taxi Drivers of Detroit, 1950

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L-R: Rosemary Matteson, Lucille LeBeau, Helen Devlin, Barbara Canuana, and Dorothy Bates. I wouldn't mess with any of them if I we...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Two Ghost Signs: "Honor Bright" and "Black Beauty" (Reliance Manufacturing Company, Chicago)

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I came across two vibrant-colored ghost signs on the side of a storefront restorationist church where the building next door had recently ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Feral House, circa. 1933

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This was a road house and inn known known as Four Mile House. Before that it was owned by a man named Francis Prevost, a French immigra...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Pictures of Picketing Kids from the Virtual Motor City Collection

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Last week there were a few thousand activists in town for a big conference on social justice and there were a few dozen protest marches cr...