Detroit Streetcar Line
For those readers who don’t get across the river often, and spend time in downtown Detroit, work is progressing nicely on the M1 streetcar line […]
Detroit
One Fare – Walkerville & Detroit Ferry Co – c 1925
To close out this mini series of posts of old transit tickets, is this one for the Walkerville – Detroit ferry. The Walkerville – Detroit […]
Ferry Brittania – c. 1930
A vintage shot from Windsor, looking towards Detroit about 1930. The ferry Brittania is visible returning to Windsor. This scan is taken from the original […]
LaSalle Ferry Boat – 1931
The ferry LaSalle was built in 1922 and was on the river crossing run until ferry service was discontinued in 1938. The LaSalle was later […]
Proposed Detroit River Memorial Tunnel – 1918
This rendering above was proposed in July 1918, involved six giant elevators to take cars down to a road, where you would drive under the […]
Ambassador Bridge – c. 1928
A photo of what must have been the winter of 1928-1929 as the bridge towers are done, but the roadway is still being laid. Given […]
Spier & Rohns Office – 1896
So yeah, it’s that time of year… we all get busy, and well I totally missed that I forgot to put a post up Friday, […]
Opening Day
A sure sign of spring, the return of Baseball!
Detroit Civic Center – 1976
Across the river today to the north shore for an interesting look at Hart Plaza and the RenCen under construction in this photo taken in […]