1888 Detroit Map - with Hastings

[townonenorth]

Wow. Yes, that location would be the Brewsters and/ or the Frederick Douglass Homes, the low rises. so does this rendering represent the storefronts on Hastings? I do see what looks like 3530, at the bottom, but I see it twice. Thanks!

The two numbers at the bottom are the new and "old" addresses, before the address changes starting January 1 1921.

The rendering is what was at that block that your dad's store was at. It looks as if it was all 2 story stores, with a shared balcony in the back, with stairs on either side of the building in the rear. Also there were three entrances in the front as well. Each store was 12 feet wide. Could have been one building?

Edit: I went back and re-read your blog, in light of reading this batch of posts. Now, the facts and figures listed in the book I have start to make some sense, in that they had some kind of war on TB, pneumonia,and infant mortality going on within this study I am looking at.. Your family, in the 1940 census, were staying at 666 Mack, apartment 31, but you probably know that. Here's a rendering of that place, while I am thinking of it.

[marshamusic]

The two numbers at the bottom are the new and "old" addresses, before the address changes starting January 1 1921.

The rendering is what was at that block that your dad's store was at. It looks as if it was all 2 story stores, with a shared balcony in the back, with stairs on either side of the building in the rear. Also there were three entrances in the front as well. Each store was 12 feet wide. Could have been one building?

Edit: I went back and re-read your blog, in light of reading this batch of posts. Now, the facts and figures listed in the book I have start to make some sense, in that they had some kind of war on TB, pneumonia,and infant mortality going on within this study I am looking at.. Your family, in the 1940 census, were staying at 666 Mack, apartment 31, but you probably know that. Here's a rendering of that place, while I am thinking of it.

Wow, wow, wow.......I feel like I'm stepping into my own life.

Ok, so I'm looking at this rendering of the project homes; do you know where Hastings is, in relationship to the grid? Is it the row of structures on the left? Or would it be "above" out of the range of the picture? I see that "Mack" is written vertically, so is that Mack? Doesn't seem like it would be.

Yes, 666 Mack was a family home. But it was not my home. It was the home of my father's first family, and my older half-brothers and sisters. [[I am the product of his second family; we grew up in Highland Park). But my older half brother told me, in his emphatic way, the address was 666 Mack.

Yes, in my blog I talk about the quarantines for TB; my father was incorrectly diagnosed but "sent away" for months any way, loosing all [[this was before the record shop). My older half-sister apparently did have TB, at another point, and was quarantined for a long time, as well.

So where did you get this info about 666 Mack?

I am blown away....

[townonenorth]

Wow, wow, wow.......I feel like I'm stepping into my own life.

Ok, so I'm looking at this rendering of the project homes; do you know where Hastings is, in relationship to the grid? Is it the row of structures on the left? Or would it be "above" out of the range of the picture? I see that "Mack" is written vertically, so is that Mack? Doesn't seem like it would be.

Yes, 666 Mack was a family home. But it was not my home. It was the home of my father's first family, and my older half-brothers and sisters. [[I am the product of his second family; we grew up in Highland Park). But my older half brother told me, in his emphatic way, the address was 666 Mack.

Yes, in my blog I talk about the quarantines for TB; my father was incorrectly diagnosed but "sent away" for months any way, loosing all [[this was before the record shop). My older half-sister apparently did have TB, at another point, and was quarantined for a long time, as well.

So where did you get this info about 666 Mack?

I am blown away....

This is where the census comes into play, for information on the family. Here's the link for the family as it was in 1940.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3....RJ:n1354898717

Hastings is directly above in the rendering I posted. Mack is to the left. Directly above this area on Hastings is where the shop was.

[marshamusic]

The rendering is what was at that block that your dad's store was at. It looks as if it was all 2 story stores, with a shared balcony in the back, with stairs on either side of the building in the rear. Also there were three entrances in the front as well. Each store was 12 feet wide. Could have been one building?

Here's a photo, maybe you can somewhat see the storefronts. The man is standing in the door of the record shop [[my brother identifies him as not my father, but the barber next door). Looks like there are more than three entrances; there are three in the photo and I know one to the left, [[the barber) out of sight.

[townonenorth]

Here's a photo, maybe you can somewhat see the storefronts. The man is standing in the door of the record shop [[my brother identifies him as not my father, but the barber next door). Looks like there are more than three entrances; there are three in the photo and I know one to the left, [[the barber) out of sight.

Three entrances to the upper floors, not the businesses.

[marshamusic]

The two numbers at the bottom are the new and "old" addresses, before the address changes starting January 1 1921.

Ok, so if the second set of numbers indicate that there were address changes on Hastings as well, why did it continue to be known by the old numbers, like 3530, as opposed to 634. Or am I interpreting this correctly?

[townonenorth]

Ok, so if the second set of numbers indicate that there were address changes on Hastings as well, why did it continue to be known by the old numbers, like 3530, as opposed to 634. Or am I interpreting this correctly?

It's known by the new numbers. Old numbers are at the bottom of the listing.

[marshamusic]

It's known by the new numbers. Old numbers are at the bottom of the listing.

Ok, thanks. It seems odd that Hastings, running as it did, an almost straight shot from around the river, would have a need to be changed - all the way from numbers in the 600's to numbers in the 3,000's, as on the block we're talking about.

Do you know why Hastings was renumbered?