Old Detroit Department Store -Where was It?

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August-11-14, 03:14 PM
SWMAP

Old Detroit Department Store -Where was It?

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?
August-11-14, 03:34 PM
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!
August-11-14, 03:35 PM
jcole

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

http://www.emporis.com/building/elli...detroit-mi-usa
August-11-14, 03:36 PM
dtowncitylover

This too!http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...b02d602___tifI wonder when it went out of business...
August-11-14, 03:41 PM
jcole

Locust became Henry St in 1919 and # 60 is approximately 160 4th St near Park and Clifford
August-11-14, 03:45 PM
SWMAP

Well! that store was a beauty.

Thanks to all the excellent researchers.
August-11-14, 04:19 PM
Wheels

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...eb02d602___tif
August-11-14, 06:29 PM
SWMAP

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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!

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.
August-13-14, 08:52 PM
Detroit Stylin

When was it demolished?
August-13-14, 09:52 PM
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.
August-13-14, 10:53 PM
One Shot

Not related but this reminds me of a building/store that went over a street somewhere downtown? What am I thinkin of?
August-14-14, 06:09 AM
Pam

Quote:

Originally Posted by One Shot

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/
August-14-14, 08:27 AM
dtowncitylover

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pam

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.
August-14-14, 02:36 PM
One Shot

Thats it! Thanks!
August-14-14, 03:52 PM
drjeff

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

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?
August-15-14, 12:01 AM
Mikeg

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

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).