Quote Originally Posted by EastsideAl View Post
I don't know about the '60s, but have you seen the Place Promo survey photos from 1976?

They can be found here:
http://www.placepromo.com/search.php
Just enter the street name of any street in the neighborhood on the search page. The photos are low quality black-and-white, but do provide a view of how pretty much every standing structure looked soon after the beginning of the great decline in 1976.
Yes, I have. We've been pondering these photos a lot. Some of them show houses in what looks like a state of renovation. And then there's this whole mystery of all of these solid looking inhabited houses cataloged here that by the 1980s are completely gone. Meanwhile, some of the less stable houses on that list like the Lucien Moore house, kept standing. Was this part of Woodward East? Did their budget include demolition? I know they caused a lot of damage and they stripped the interior of at least the Ransom Gillis house.