Here’s an old postcard from the early 1960’s, that I don’t think was ever posted to the site before. To me the most interesting part of the card is the bottom half, with the view of Wyandotte/Ouellette. The green TD bank in the lower right was designed by Johnson & McWhinnie in 1959, so the card is at least from 1960.
At one point there was a plan to add an extra two floors to the top of the building. The plans for the addition are available in the archives in the Johnson-McWhinnie collection. The building was recently sold, after sitting empty since the TD bank left, anyone have any idea about future plans for the building?
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The Seaway Inn, seen in the background was built in the sixties, and Tamblyn's drug store on the corner in front of the bus was renovated in the mid sixties as well, but I can't remember the exact dates for those buildings.
NIce to see the shot of the old Boblo boat on the top portion of the card someone told me the detroit Princess is built from one of the old Boblo boats Aaron do you have any info on this ??
The white car behind the taxi is either a early chevy Nova or a chevy 2 i wondr if thats a vets cab it looks like a dodge maybe
Gary, the Bob-Lo ship shown is the S.S. Columbia. She and her sister ship, the S.S. Ste. Claire, are both currently tied up at the Great Lakes Steel dock at Ecorse, Michigan. The Detroit Princess was built in 1993 at the Leevac Shipyard in Jennings, Louisiana.
Hey are you guys sleeping? Given recent trends in contemporary urban renewal, Windsor style, the green TD at the famous intersection of Wyandotte and Ouellette will be replaced by a flat sheet of asphalt.
Ted, as far as I know, Columbia has been shipped to New York and will be restored and used for cruises on the Hudson, leaving from Manhatten. Lucky girl.
Ste. Claire is still moored in Ecorse however, under going a very slow restoration of her own, with the hopes of getting back on her old stomping grounds.
Gary, I had always been under the impression Detroit Princess was actually the Northern Belle, if you remember her from the Casino. Then one day I noticed Detroit Princess doesn't have a paddle wheel on the back like Northern Belle did. I started looking into it and the Belle was towed down to Lakeshore Missisippi, and apparently dissapeared when Katrina hit that area hard.
Who knows, she may be floating around the Gulf of Mexico right now. If she made it to the Atlantic, I would imagine she has sunk.
I know, I totally went off topic :)
One Woodward Avenue is visible in Detroit as well, so it's definitely no earlier than 1962.
Aaron no problem thanks for the info and thank you Ted someone i don't recall who! mentioned that they heard it was one of the old Boblo boats but the princess is a sidewheeler i remember about 10 years ago i was with a friend on his boat and one of them was tied up at a slip on th detroit side it looked like it has been there awhile the canvas panels they put on the higher outer deck area's and the curtains in the bathrooms almost at water level were all shedded from age it kind of reminded me of an old haunted boat but it was sad to see such a nice old boat just sitting there rusting away
Aaron, check out http://www.sscolumbia.org and see the latest news about the ship. Search for Ecorse, Michigan on http://www.maps.google.com and you'll see the two Bob-Lo boats tied up together at Great Lakes Steel. Given her advanced state of deterioration, a trip to Manhattan might be a tad ambitious. Hopefully someday they'll both be doing "Moonlight Cruises" again.
Aaron, you are right on! I just read the sscolumbia site and note that it has a NYC address. How does that Homer Simpson groan go? DOH!!