Anybody raised in Detroit remembers going to the amusement park on Boblo Island. But most Detroiters don’t know the real name was actually “Bois Blanc Island”, and that the Boblo boat was really two boats – The SS Columbia and The SS Ste. Claire. Due to competition from Cedar Point, Boblo Island shut its doors in 1993.

Taken in 1956, this area of Detroit has remained unchanged. The Woodward hump over 8 Mile is still there, physically marking the transition from Detroit into the northern suburbs – in this case, Ferndale.

This shot is from 1983 showing the world famous Hudson Building – once the largest department store in the world, now a useless parking lot. The leadership of Detroit doing what they do best – tearing Detroit down one business at a time. If there is a more incompetent, functionally illiterate, borderline retarded group of people in the world than the Detroit city council – we challenge anyone to prove it.

Shot down Woodward Avenue in 1956 near Puritan Avenue in Highland Park. That Sears building has since been replaced with a fabulous new luxury department store, cleverly disguised as an empty parking lot with homeless people sleeping in it.

Taken in 1949, this shot shows people waiting for the trolley in front of Kern’s at State Street and Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit.

Most people think of New York when they think of busy roads, but the title of the busiest intersection in the world actually belonged to Detroit at the site of the world’s first traffic light – Michigan Ave and Woodward Ave circa 1920.