Robert requested a picture of "...flags."
The top photo, taken in the 1960's, depicts a parade down Van Dyke Avenue near 8 Mile Road in Detroit, MI.
The bottom photo is of the same location as it looks today!
Happy Fourth of July everyone!
Robert requested anything "... showing a January thaw."
Not sure that this photo was actually taken in January but it definately looks like warmer weather is melting the snow.
I began my interest in vernacular photography by a chance acquisition of over 10,000 negatives dating from the late 1920's through the early 1970's. Luckily, I knew what I had was something more than "someone's old pictures." This cache of old images became the impetus for me to create two Photoblogs: Ookpik’s Negativity and Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes. Ookpik’s Negativity contains photos that I would like to know more about while Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes features photos of ships that I am trying to identify.