Comerica Park / Ford Field

[MikeM]

Hey, great stuff Mike! Pure curiosity, what/where was that list from? Odd that it's printed on tape like that, but probably just something I'm not familiar with...

The list is from a Polk's city directory. It's not tape but columns of print from the directory [[but it does have that 1960s computer font). I trimmed the pages I photographed down to the columns in order to post them:

[MikeM]

Some examples of the housing remaining in the mid-1970s:

140 E Montcalm:




406 E Columbia:




414 E Columbia:




272 E Elizabeth:




516 E Elizabeth:

[MikeM]

Buildings:


166 E Montcalm:




448 E Montcalm:




549 E Montcalm:




140 E Columbia:




201 E Columbia:




28 E Elizabeth:




70 E Elizabeth:




235 E Elizabeth:

[MikeM]

More can be found at Place Promo

Some aerial views of the area over the years:

1961:




1981:




1997:




Recent:

[MikeM]

Some of the 1981 aerial views are close enough that you get a birds-eye view of the buildings, giving some idea of the variation in vertical scale in the neighborhood:

[MikeM]

[Bluenote132003]

All I can say is wow! You ask MikeM why his lists look like ribbons, and he comes through with a pictoral history of the area, including aerial shots!! Amazing!
Mike, you also helped me find a personal grail, been looking for this picture for a very long time, found it through your link to http://placepromo.com/search.php.
I give you Carter Electric #1, at 28 E Columbia. Parking on the left, my office would be through the front doors, all the way to the back on the left. Wholesale and retail electrical and lighting supplies, including hundreds of old '50s desk lamps, meticulously cleaned. polished, and rewired as needed by yours truly. We also found the pieces and castings to assemble the 3 hanging light fixtures directly inside the Palms [[Fillmore) outer lobby. Steps from Jolly Jims, right around the corner from the original Elwood!

[Bluenote132003]

A few more from Place Promo
2125 Woodward

2138 Woodward

2131 Woodward

2100 Woodward

62 E. Columbia

[Bluenote132003]

Few more:
33 E. Columbia

101 E Elizabeth

60 W. Elizabeth [[has been featured in threads before)

[MikeM]

A view of both Y's:





The same view now:

[Detroitman32]

So the old YMCA wasn't in the baseball field's footprint then? Guess it could have been preserved... not to speak of the Wolverine!