Shorpy's Sunday Puzzle

[gnome]

We all love Shorpy and the massively cool pix of the past. Here is a pic which is sure to puzzle a lot of folk.




Be sure to check out the Shorpy web site for a blow-up.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7779?size=_original

The one I'm sure of, it looks like Jjaba is hawking the Detroit Times, bulldog edition, on the corner.

[gnome]

I believe what we are looking at above is Michigan Ave and Shelby. This is where the Lafayette building is being torn down.

Here is a 1894 city directory which shows a F. B. [[Freeman B. Dickerson) running a business at 71 Michigan Ave. By the way, he is the same guy who built Eloise

http://distantcousin.com/directories...?Pages=141.jpg

[Mikeg]

From the 1906 Detroit city directory [[see image below):

The Gately Company was located at 73-75 Michigan Avenue.

Sarah J. Farly [[widow of Stephen M. Farly) was the proprietor of the Farly Tailor shop at 83-85 Michigan Ave. She resided at 533 Kercheval, which was at the corner of Parker Ave.

The Farly Tailor Shop was located on the southeast corner of Michigan Ave and Wayne St. [[now the southerly extension of Washington Blvd). You are looking down Wayne towards the river along the right side of the photo. Click here for a Google Street View taken on the same spot as the 1906 photo.

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This listing of Michigan Ave. businesses begins at Rowland/Shelby [[top) and continues past Washington Blvd. to Wayne St. [[bottom).

[gnome]

oops, Definately Michigan Ave, but one block west of the Lafayete block. Essentially, the camera is at the corner of Michigan and Washington. This block is now the venerable Holiday Inn Express.

again from Shorpy from a couple of weeks ago. Old City Hall looking out Michigan ave you can see the Easy Credit sign and the distinctive roof lines
http://www.shorpy.com/node/7658?size=_original

you have to go to the original to see the the "credit" sign.



So, essentially in the

[EastsideAl]

Interesting to see here the small shop of the later much larger Banner Linen Service, who had a big building by Tiger Stadium for years.