Old Detroit Department Store -Where was It?

[SWMAP]

I saw this postcard on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Interior-Clo...item2582bc7576

I have never heard of this store - but it really does seem to have existed somewhere in Detroit.

The sender of the postcard lived at 60 Locust Ave -and where was that?

[dtowncitylover]

This has some information on it...

http://genealogytrails.com/mich/wayn...oolfenden.html

And this from a Shorpy snippet...

http://grobbel.org/images/Elliot_Tay...enden_1914.jpg

I don't want to sound like an ass, but Google is your friend. Luckily I love Detroit's retail history so thanks for posting about this. Now I know something new!

[jcole]

I saw this postcard on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Interior-Clo...item2582bc7576

I have never heard of this store - but it really does seem to have existed somewhere in Detroit.

The sender of the postcard lived at 60 Locust Ave -and where was that?

http://www.emporis.com/building/elli...detroit-mi-usa

[dtowncitylover]

This too!http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...b02d602___tifI wonder when it went out of business...

[jcole]

Locust became Henry St in 1919 and # 60 is approximately 160 4th St near Park and Clifford

[SWMAP]

Well! that store was a beauty.

Thanks to all the excellent researchers.

[Wheels]

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...eb02d602___tif

[SWMAP]

This has some information on it...

http://genealogytrails.com/mich/wayn...oolfenden.html

And this from a Shorpy snippet...

http://grobbel.org/images/Elliot_Tay...enden_1914.jpg

I don't want to sound like an ass, but Google is your friend. Luckily I love Detroit's retail history so thanks for posting about this. Now I know something new!

Now I see that I could have googled the store- but to tell the truth, I was startled to see a pretty substantial enterprise in Detroit that I had never before heard of. It is a little "Somehere in Time" moment fore to see that six-story brick building with elegant interior spaces emerge from the mists of history.

[Detroit Stylin]

When was it demolished?

[canuck]

We can also bet that downtown Detroit must have had a lot of fairly big department stores in those days before shopping malls of suburbia.

[One Shot]

Not related but this reminds me of a building/store that went over a street somewhere downtown? What am I thinkin of?

[Pam]

Not related but this reminds me of a building/store that went over a street somewhere downtown? What am I thinkin of?

Crowley's?

http://www.historicdetroit.org/galle...re-old-photos/

[dtowncitylover]

Crowley's?

http://www.historicdetroit.org/galle...re-old-photos/

I feel like Crowley's main building could've been a building that could be used today. Either as a City Target and/or new offices. The edifice was detailed but the layout a simple square.

[One Shot]

Thats it! Thanks!

[drjeff]

I feel like Crowley's main building could've been a building that could be used today. Either as a City Target and/or new offices. The edifice was detailed but the layout a simple square.

Why was it demolished so rapidly?

[Mikeg]

And this from a Shorpy snippet...

http://grobbel.org/images/Elliot_Tay...enden_1914.jpg

I provided that image [[from the 1914 Detroit City Directory) in the comments of this Shorpy image: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13196

Here are additional Shorpy images of this store
http://www.shorpy.com/node/12235
http://www.shorpy.com/node/12196
http://www.shorpy.com/node/15910

All of these photos were taken by the Detroit Publishing Company, which used them to make colorized post cards such as the one in the Ebay listing [[which used the "1296" image).