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Volksnut ,
I looked up the address on Google Maps and it shows 18141 James Couzens being just south of Curtis, btwn Curtis and Hartwell. Coincidently, that building would later be constructed at...

It looks like quite a number of them in the city have been done. They've been moving along pretty fast, considering they started less than a month ago. But then again, maybe a little too fast. I...

If I recall correctly, a windstorm caused that damage back then and also damaged the advertisement and structure panels as well. I pass that location almost daily. Drove past there this afternoon...

I don't know if they'll be able to do them all by the 20th, but they seem to be moving a lot faster than I remember in the past. I've noticed quite a few of the new nameplates done in the city over...

This name change to OUTFRONT comes about after CBS Corp. spun off CBS Outdoor as an independent company back in March of this year.

mtburb you can add another name to the long chain of companies that operated out of 88 Custer Street. CBS Outdoor has now become Outfront Media. Although the new name has already been appearing on...

Oh wow! Beginning at 15:44 mark there's a short clip of the Grand River-Oakman intersection, the way I remember it growing up in the '60s.....minus the broken windows of course. Sadly it looks...

I ran across this James Couzens Hwy photo online a few years ago. I believe it came from a booklet published by the Wayne County Road Commission. No description was given other than the location...

No problem. You're right, since both buildings do have 2 entrances. The public [main] entrance [[back when the public was allowed more access) faced the street [[Wabash and Schaefer) while the...

The top photo is the Samuel T. Gilbert Terminal [[aka Gilbert Terminal) at Wabash and Hudson streets shortly after it was completed in 1948. The photo was taken prior to the construction of the Ford...

Interesting page. They're gonna have to update it since most of the boards still have the old white frames.[[lol) Any particular ones you were able to find that still had Gannett and Outdoor...

Here's the way they all look today under CBS Outdoor...

Well, I wouldn't say all of their suburban signs because the last white frame billboards I saw were in Ferndale [[9 Mile - Livernois), which were converted right before this past Christmas.
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I agree with you Lowell. I would listen to his program daily and he was always fair with the callers and guests on his show, no matter how controversial. I was looking forward to his returning...

I remember seeing that Gd River/Lahser fire on the news. The tread was dated Nov 2006, so it probably already had the CBS logo by then, which took over Viacom in late 2005/early 2006.

The...

The reason for the Eller logo still being displayed is a number of succeeding companies after Naegele [[Eller, Gannett Outdoor, Outdoor Systems) just used an adhesive type sticker to cover over the...

The only DSR yard that's been on that side of town since 1928 has been the Coolidge Terminal on Schaefer just north of Schoolcraft.

CBS went on an aggressive campaign during the second half of 2013 to convert the remainder of their boards over to the new frame design. Of course I haven't been around the entire city, but the last...

Yep, that was the way Gannett Outdoor displayed their logo. They were also the company that changed the frames from the original light gray to white after they took over Eller Outdoor in 1979. CBS...

Well actually, CBS Outdoor never acquired Viacom Outdoor, it was one of those corporate-world reorganization things.
First there was Viacom Inc., which owned CBS-TV, CBS Radio, local TV and radio...

mtburb,
I'm beginning to rethink my previous comments on how 3M arrived in Detroit. The more I think about it, I believe 3M National arrived in Detroit some years after the Townsend Sign Co. left...

Yeah, I remember the 3M offices on Sherwood. If you don't mind me asking, about what years did you work there, '70s, '80s or later?

Back in the early '70s I remember my dad taking us to the...

after seeing your photo that seems to be more like it. I think you're right, the "3M" was more bold font than "National."

Here's the 3M National logo more like the way I remember it being displayed...21690

After the media conglomerate Viacom purchased Infinity Broadcasting [[which owned Infinity Outdoor) in 2001, it merged its billboard company TDI Worldwide with Infinity and formed Viacom Outdoor. ...