Fort Street at Arlington, 1940s · Photo by Morris Sager - Sager Studios
Typical Lincoln Park 'garage' home with garden lot, 1930s. (Lafayette School in background)
Fort Street, south view to State Street (Southfield Road), c. 1924. Quandt home in distance, prior to Fort Street cut through (1925)
Herman Quandt's Saloon/aka West Side Inn, located on State Street (Southfield Road). Quandt home at left, c. 1910
Fort Street in 1916 – several years before Lincoln Park was established and before the first development occurred.
A typical mud road in Lincoln Park, 1930s
State Street (Southfield Road) at Fort Street, east view, c.1924
Auto Parade, date unknown
Steel plant under construction, Ford Motor Company R.R., June 24, 1924
Fort Street, north view, c. 1924 Smoke seen from Ford Rouge Plant three miles away; Henry Ford's vast automobile plant complex along the Rouge River and its quick access via Fort Street from Downriver was one of the primary reasons for the early growth of Lincoln Park.
Quandt Home, built by Herman Quandt in 1906 Located on State Street at Fort Street until 1925 when it was moved to Fort Park to make way for the cutting through of Fort Street from State Street (Southfield Road) to Champaign Road.
Fort Street, north view, c. 1924
Fort Street, north view, c. 1924
Early Lincoln Park Coach Line bus, mid-1920s
'Garage' homes of 1920s/1930s in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
Lincoln Park Police and Fire Departments, 1926 Group of six firemen are on the left, all wearing smaller caps; policemen are to the right; motorcycle patrolman, Preston Tucker, at age 23, kneeling lower left; Tucker would later gain fame as an inventor and engineer producing the Tucker Automobile in the 1940s.
Louis Keppen home, 1324 State Street, pictured here c. 1930s (part of the home was later incorporated into the R.C. Aleks & Son Funeral Home); Fort Street business district in background.
Clemente's Bar and Bowling Alley, 2230 Fort Street, pictured here in the 1960s. Having opened in the 1930s, Clemente's closed their doors in 2010 after 80 years in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
Chiarelli and Leone's Market, 2210 Fort Park, c. 1928; Chiarelli's Market closed its doors in 2008 after over 80 years in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
Lincoln Park Police Department, 1926, motorcycle officers Floyd Crichton (left), and Preston Tucker (right)
Goodell School prior to wing additions (built 1918). Located on Champaign Road at Fort Street; pictured in 1920s
Pioneer's Inn 3406 Fort Street at Gregory, c. 1940s
Sager Photo Studio (Morris Sager), at 2165 Fort Street; pictured in 1939
Interior of Chiarelli & Leone's Market c. 1920s
Gus Pelton's Tin Shop, 1706 Victoria, c. 1930
Maurice Levy Real Estate, est. 1915; photo mid 1920s
Lincoln Park City Hall Building, 2030 Fort Street, early 1930s
Construction of Fort Street median, south view, late 1930s
Lincoln Park Coach Line, 'the Jitney' on a run to Belle Isle (Detroit Yacht Club in the background.)
Police Car from early 1950s, Chief Floyd Crichton at right
Early baseball field, Lincoln Park c. 1940
Lincoln Park Fire Station and fire trucks, facing Cleophus Pkwy, at rear of new City Hall building, 1936
'Extravaganza' at the Lincoln Park Band Shell, at Memorial Park, 1950s
Joseph Toleikis Market, on Fort Street, c. 1920; first grocer in Lincoln Park
First Lincoln Park Post Office Building, 1741 Fort Street; c. 1925, Clerk James Southers, Superintendent Thomas Neville
Lincoln Park City Hall, Depression-era W.P.A. project, built 1936
Memorial Day Parade, 1930s
Memorial Sunday parade of bikes, Fort Street in the 1930s (view is west side between Arlington and Warwick)
Knoch Flower Shop pictured in 1937 at Fort and Hanford
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