Quote Originally Posted by gnome View Post
I'm not feeling the 1905 date on this pic. Not a single car in sight? Not one? I know it's early in the auto boom days, but I'm pretty sure there should be a car or two in the pic if the date was 1905. I'm thinking late 90's.......
The day that photo appeared on Shorpy, I did some browsing in the 1905 Detroit Polk directory and found many of those business shown on Woodward in the first two blocks north of Jefferson, including Swan's Restaurant on the NW corner at Larned. That said, it could still have been taken earlier, but it would take considerable time for me to review earlier Directories to see when all of the easily identifiable businesses first show up together.