A few months ago, I came across a breathtaking color photograph of old City Hall at night with the Penobscot Building looming "over its shoulder" in the background. The photo was so striking, I set it up as my desktop wallpaper for awhile. Somehow, I lost it and cannot find it anywhere online. I searched the forums, but came up with nothing. Has anyone seen this photo or did I dream it up?
Just sent you a private message.
If that photo was used as wallpaper, it is still stored somewhere on your external or internal hard drive.
I've got a couple. There's one where it's lighted up and says "Welcome Home Mayor Maybury" on it. There's another of a Masons gathering out front at dusk [[building lighted). Either of those?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irvine Laird
Post those pix!
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Yes, please post them if you can. I would love to see them.
Here's my favorite:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...-re1-final.jpg [[photo from Reuther Library)
The other one is on my Mac at home, so I won't be able to upload and post till later.
OOH! Striking!Quote:
Originally Posted by buildingsofdetroit
Thank you, everyone. These are great photos worthy of my desktop! However, the one I seek remains lost.
I found the photo in Virtual Motor City. It's black and white, but my memory and sense of nostalgia recorded it in Technicolor.
Here it is:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...54&image.y=120
That's nice too... too bad it's not in color!
Here's a nice daytime black&white:
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/m...s/090132pv.jpg
Found on http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/.
Thanks for posting that. It's a great picture.
There's a night color photo at http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1301/1006954961_232f3bfc6f_b.jpg.
Jimaz, that's the Old Wayne County Building.
Yep, you're correct. It was mislabled at the source.
Now where did I find that?
Also, the car in the bottom right of that photo is way too new to have been in a picture of the old City Hall. Oh well. Maybe we'll get a color photo of the Old City Hall one of these days.
Speaking of getting old City Hall and the old county buildings confused. A former co-worker of mine and also a lifelong Detroiter was shocked when I showed him a picture of myself on the steps of the old county building holding a broom after the 1998 Stanley Cup victory. He asked " How did you get your picture taken in front of old city hall?". I said "What?". "They tore city hall down almost 40 yrs ago." He said. I reminded him that it was the old county building.
He was confused for a few days and then said "Oh yeah that building by Greektown that looks like OLD CITY HALL."
Thanks for posting those pictures maybe I can fool him again.
There's a quick shot of it in this video from 1950:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREwIfmWSzU
Here's a City Hall photo for your Halloween screen saver.
That's not City Hall. That's the Old Wayne County Building.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajdet
Not color, but still a neat shot of Old City Hall at night. From Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/de...0/4a09041v.jpg
I love the pushcart vendors in the foreground of that 1901 picture.
Yeppp. I wonder what's on the mural under the "1901" lights?Quote:
Originally Posted by EastsideAl