June 2009

Here’s one today for the railfans. A recent eBay find, from 1986. This shot was taken from the Ouellette Avenue overpass looking west. Thanks to John Stefani for putting his slide scanner to work on this one. The interesting thing to me is where Leone’s Music world is today, was home to Gateway Volkswagen. If it wasn’t for the trees on the left, we would be able to see Consumers…

Today is a shot looking east along Wyandotte from just beyond Lincoln Road. Interestingly enough, unlike most of the city, not too much has changed in the last 45 years. The Kaplan’s Furniture sign on the south side of the street was only removed in the last five or so years, after becoming The Walker Boys. Interesting to see that there was a substantial building on the north east corner of…