Woodward Avenue, 1915

**d.mcc** · November-13-09, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto

Don't forget the Unions and the tag-team duo of Coleman Young / Jennifer Granholm.

Damn Commie Socialist bastards!

**old guy** · November-13-09, 03:53 PM

In this 1942 FSA photo it's titled "Looking north on Woodward." Is that the same Bonds store, in the same place as the Bonds Clothing store in the older photo?
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**EastsideAl** · November-18-09, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by old guy

In this 1942 FSA photo it's titled "Looking north on Woodward." Is that the same Bonds store, in the same place as the Bonds Clothing store in the older photo?
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Bond's here is on the opposite side of the block from the one in the 1917 picture. It's approximately where the Golde's and Elmer's signs are in the older picture. The building just to the north of it is Kern's

Cascade Whiskey, whose sign sits atop the Bond's store in the Shorpy picture, is what is today known as George Dickel. If you look closely you can see the Dickel name in the lower left corner of the sign. The slogan goes back to the old belief that whiskey could be made mellower by leaving it out exposed on moonlit nights.

**old guy** · November-18-09, 04:40 PM

Thanks Eastside Al

**old guy** · November-18-09, 04:55 PM

So it's next to Hudsons.
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**old guy** · November-18-09, 05:13 PM

My mistake. I guess it is Kerns.
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**Mikeg** · November-18-09, 05:52 PM

What was left of the Kern's building, Aug. 1966:
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**English** · November-13-09, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by d.mcc

Damn Commie Socialist bastards!

I almost choked on my afternoon snack! Thanks for the laugh.

I swear that I'm going to open up an anti-urban, anti-Detroit t-shirt site somewhere. I will use unauthorized quotes from DYes curmudgeons, and then I will donate all the profits to the Greening, Alternatives for Girls, Gleaners, Blight Busters, and Mariner's. The more bile, the more sales, and the more sales, the more Detroiters will benefit. Talk about turning hate into love...

Anyway, while I adore photographs, footage, and stories from the past, I always wonder what is not being told or passed down. After all, the Detroit of today is the legitimate child of the Detroit of yesterday. Something was going on in the Detroit of yesteryear that was uniquely different from other, comparable cities. What was it?

We may never have all the answers.

**d.mcc** · November-13-09, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by English

I almost choked on my afternoon snack! Thanks for the laugh.

I swear that I'm going to open up an anti-urban, anti-Detroit t-shirt site somewhere. I will use unauthorized quotes from DYes curmudgeons, and then I will donate all the profits to the Greening, Alternatives for Girls, Gleaners, Blight Busters, and Mariner's. The more bile, the more sales, and the more sales, the more Detroiters will benefit. Talk about turning hate into love...

I expect, and accept all royalties!

**DetroitPlanner** · November-13-09, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by English

I almost choked on my afternoon snack! Thanks for the laugh.

I swear that I'm going to open up an anti-urban, anti-Detroit t-shirt site somewhere. I will use unauthorized quotes from DYes curmudgeons, and then I will donate all the profits to the Greening, Alternatives for Girls, Gleaners, Blight Busters, and Mariner's. The more bile, the more sales, and the more sales, the more Detroiters will benefit. Talk about turning hate into love...

Anyway, while I adore photographs, footage, and stories from the past, I always wonder what is not being told or passed down. After all, the Detroit of today is the legitimate child of the Detroit of yesterday. Something was going on in the Detroit of yesteryear that was uniquely different from other, comparable cities. What was it?

We may never have all the answers.

If you do, I promise to continue to be a crumudgeon. I support people who support people before things.

**iheartthed** · November-13-09, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by English

I almost choked on my afternoon snack! Thanks for the laugh.

I swear that I'm going to open up an anti-urban, anti-Detroit t-shirt site somewhere. I will use unauthorized quotes from DYes curmudgeons, and then I will donate all the profits to the Greening, Alternatives for Girls, Gleaners, Blight Busters, and Mariner's. The more bile, the more sales, and the more sales, the more Detroiters will benefit. Talk about turning hate into love...

Anyway, while I adore photographs, footage, and stories from the past, I always wonder what is not being told or passed down. After all, the Detroit of today is the legitimate child of the Detroit of yesterday. Something was going on in the Detroit of yesteryear that was uniquely different from other, comparable cities. What was it?

We may never have all the answers.

I don't think that the differences in what Detroit did, compared to what her peer cities of that era did, are all that mysterious. In fact, they have been stated over and over and over and over on various threads in this forum.