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Detroit, Michigan, circa 1912. "Glaser's Edelweiss Cafe, Miami Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Those must have cost a fortune in the day - they are beautiful as well as functional. I alo notice some great lights on the canopy of the cafe - awesome!
Look at this cropped front area of the Edelweis. The time and expense budgeted for creating such a remarkable facade with details such as those I arrowed are more or less architectural impossibilities today (unless it's a Dubai project). Incredible and a notice to the populace that the E-weiss was THE place to be seen. Or, at the very least, seen while standing outside there with a toothpick, having dined at Sloppy Dave's down the street.
Miami Avenue is now known as Broadway. This restaurant was at the corner of Miami and John R on what is now the site of the parking garage for the nearby Opera House.
The Kiwanis Club was founded here in 1915.
Interesting photo. 1912 and there are four cars and no horses (or horse droppings) in the shot. I wonder if Detroit adopted the automobile faster than other cities of that period?
Oh, I'm getting very, very hungry.
Elegant lampposts and potted plants, there's not even a gum wrapper to be found anywhere on the street. With all the economic problems and city cutbacks Detroit is going through I would hate to see what that corner looks like today.
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