Detroit Streetcar Line
April 20, 2015
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 that will run along Woodward Avenue from downtown to the New Center area.
After so long without, it looks interesting to…
One Fare - Walkerville & Detroit Ferry Co - c 1925
April 10, 2015
To close out this mini series of posts of old transit tickets, is this one for the Walkerville – Detroit ferry. The Walkerville – Detroit ferry was established by the Walker’s to ease getting to their distillery. The journey from the Windsor Ferry Docks to…
Proposed Detroit River Memorial Tunnel - 1918
January 19, 2015
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 river, and take an elevator up at the other end. The plan also called for pedestrians as well.
Just one of many ideas floated that never…
Ambassador Bridge - c. 1928
January 9, 2015
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 the arctic blast of the last few days and the snow, it feels like today’s post is a natural fit.
This shot is looking east, Detroit on the left, and the Border Cities on the right.
Have a great weekend everyone, see you back here Monday.
**Also I’ve had a…
Spier & Rohns Office - 1896
December 22, 2014
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, until well into Saturday afternoon… so… Sorry about that! Now on to the post that I was going to do on Friday…
The Detroit firm…