  Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1472 Registered: 10-2003 |
Here is a bit from Parducci's scrap book. What do you know about either/both buildings. No reasonable offer refused. eeeeeek  | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 289 Registered: 08-2006 |
One on the right is 751 Griswold, designed by Albert Kahn in 1927. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 2013 Registered: 01-2004 |
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK ! | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 146 Registered: 08-2007 |
Was that bank built with architectural details on all 4 sides? The reason I ask is because the flicker photo shows it next to skyscrapers. The skyscrapers appear to butt up to two of the 4 sides. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 293 Registered: 08-2006 |
The replica has a blank (brick) rear wall and a reiteration of the side wall on the opposite side. I doubt the actual building has three facades, it probably has just two and the other two are brick walls that meet the skyscrapers behind and to the left of it. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 2057 Registered: 01-2004 |
http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 6/09/lets_go_to_the_bank.html http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 6/09/more_bank_details.html | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1967 Registered: 11-2003 |
751 Griswold (the one on the right) is also known as the Olde Building. | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 256 Registered: 03-2006 |
Doug is correct. I worked in 751 Griswold for OLDE Discount Stockbrokers circa 1993-1996. I lived at Cass & Bagley and would walk to work. City livin'. Anyway, interesting anecdote about 751 Griswold ... E.J. Olde hung himself with an electrical extention cord in the elevator shaft of that building. EJ Olde was Earnie Olde's son, (or Earnie Jr). He was in his 20's when he killed himself there, I believe. He hated his dad (Earnie Sr., the founder of OLDE) so much he hung himself in the OLDE HQ building as an FU. This happened one or two years before I worked at OLDE in marketing. Apparently, EJ's dad belittled him often and EJ was more of the free-spirited partier kind of guy, rather than a financially-minded broker type. He just couldn't take the pressure, I guess. The elder Olde was a mean-spirited, crooked, and quite possibly crazy person. I met him. He was a real piece of work. He's dead now too. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 2178 Registered: 01-2005 |
That's some great history trivia, Spacemonkey! Thanks for posting. |
