Here’s an interesting old postcard, I recently came across… Over the years of running this site, it’s not too often I come across a postcard, I haven’t seen before, but this one is one of those rare times…
Sandwich, despite being the seat of Essex County, looked to be a pretty small and quiet place…
I believe that the postcard shot was taken from here, but it’s hard to tell without much reference… (Sorry for the link, but the embedding feature with Street View seems to be broken for the last couple of days…)
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rws, sounds good to me.. :)
I think the picket fence is the best clue. Other than that there's not much to go on...
Interesting to wonder why someone thought this would make a good postcard in the first place. It doesn’t seem very interesting yet, a century on, we get a peek at a typical side street in Sandwich and we are all discussing it. Good find! It's like Google street view 1910. Now if I can only get it to pan around...
WOW! great postcard Andrew!
I'm gonna agree with rws on this. If you take the google guy and put him right on the intersection of Sandwich and Mill facing the river and zoom in as much as you can....you get this exact same shot.
That roofline you see rws, is probably the tannery.
Very cool post card. As was already stated, not interesting perhaps for the time, but for us it is an excellent shot. Dirt road and all!
I think it would be interesting at the time....attractive even. Back then Sandwich was a nice place for Detroiters to escape the smokey, hot hustle and bustle of the big city. What a great way to demonstrate a nice relaxing spot. Plus....I bet that looks a hell of alot prettier in colour!
I live in this neighborhood the street names are moved around. andrew where could I find the plot plans from this so I can see the rest of the area around my house back then