Howell, Mich. street scene

verso: Things reached a fever pitch in 1915 as the Wolverine Paved Way was nearing completion. A brick road from Detroit to Lansing would be finished and the town's main street would finally be paved. In this photograph autos had started from Lansing and picked up others in all the small towns on the way to Howell for the big celebration. As you can see, they didn't worry about parking. They stopped their cars in the street and left them. Before Prohibition, Howell was known as the fun city of Southern Michigan, and there is said to have been 13 bars in the main four blocks of town. All the travelling men made it a point to stay over in Howell whenever possible. It was said that you could not fall down on the main street of town without falling into the doorway of a bar. This probably explains the empty cars after a long dusty trip. Notice, too, that about half the cars are still right hand drive.

Giegling's Market on south end of the Northern Hotel

verso: Louie Larsen said this was Nick Waal's Market for as long as he can remember. After the market quit Aug Redman had a cigar factory in the building. Later he added a pool room to the cigar factory. Harold (Capt.) Edwardsen tore it down about in the 1930's and built a summer cottage up north from the material. The market was adjacent [to] the Northern Hotel on the south.

View of Detroit Observatory grounds from southeast, including Student Observatory, March 31, 1888

(attributed to Allen Lysander Colton)

Route location study. F.A.I. 75. Detroit-Toledo Expressway to Rouge River. [Report to] Michigan State Highway Dept.,

On cover: The Seaway freeway.