Selection of photos from Ferndale's past with links for more info

Our slide shows are HERE

 

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Woodward Overpass at 8 Mile Looking North, 1965
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Lovell G. Turnbull
1st Village President (1918)

City Yard 1920s looking south

 

Hooley Real Estate at 9 Mile & Woodward 1920's

 

Neisners 231 West Nine Mile 1950s -Neisners-Tigerlily Images HERE

 

White Cruiser Woodward and Breckenridge 1948

 

Peppy's was located at 1000 West Nine Mile - More examples HERE

 

F.W. Woolworth's Company in the Slatkin Building Spring 1929
More detail HERE

 

Interior of the Historical Museum 2007

 

Original Canadian Legion building plot survey

 

April 1st, 1947 Flood (Milk still being delivered)

 

Masonic Temple on Planavon & 344 W. Nine Mile
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Barth Photographic Studios 1930's

 

 

Hansens Service 1961 - More Detail HERE

 

Vita-Wheat Baked Products Hilton at Nine Mile - Detail HERE

 

Mural at 9 Mile and Allen by Daniel Cascardo in 2005

 

 

Prohibition Era confiscation
by Ferndale Police c1920's

 

The Library at 222 East 9 Mile - looking Southeast

 

American State Bank at Woodward & Vester 1923 (more HERE)

 

City Hall 1965 near 8 Mile on the eastside of Woodward

 

 

Witbeck's Appliance store 1947

 

 

Woodward and 9 Mile 1950's - looking southeast

 

St. James Church service held in a Chicken Coop 1920

 

9 Mile & Woodward
looking West 1925

 

Federals Corner, Ferndale - Detail HERE
Compared to Detroit Store HERE

 

 

9 Mile & Woodward Looking West 1956
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Grand Trunk Railroad train yard

 

 

Lincoln High School Football Team 1925

 

 

Wetmore's Service Station & Packard Dealership
Woodward and West Drayton Avenue - Detail HERE

 

9 Mile and Planavon looking East towards Allen Street

 

Lincoln High School at 9 Mile and Livernois c1949

 

Leggett Farms Subdivision

 

50 MPH speeding ticket from 1938 - fine: $5.00

 

 

 

Original Crow's Nest c1920's and Replica
Woodward and 9 Mile 2006 - Detail HERE

 

 

Roy's Radio, corner of Allen & West Marshall 1930s

 

Parade on West 9 Mile - Detail HERE

 

Woodward and 9 Mile looking north 1946

 

 

Lipton Tea container. Date unknown

 

 

Night scene on 9 Mile c1920's - looking west

 

 

Ferndale Theater on Woodward now the Magic Bag - Detail HERE

 

Spaudling & Curtin during Ferndale's 50th Anniversary
Detail HERE

 

 

Mural on 9 Mile and Planavon south parking lot 2007

 

 

Traffic jam on Woodward & 9 Mile looking South c1922
Detail HERE

 

 

Large Rendering of Ferndale High School
Detail HERE
Note: This Is Not Available For Reproduction

 

Miss Helm's Kindergarten Class
at Ridgewood School 1925

 

S & C Coffee Car on West 9 Mile 1960's

 

 

Woodward and 8 Mile Circa 1954 Looking East
(before overpass was built)

 

Keeley's Grocery Store on West 9 Mile c1920's

 

Future site of the new City Hall on East 9 Mile 1957

 

 

Hazelhurst Street west of Central 1934

 

Winter on Hazelhurst c1923

 

Lincoln High School Watercolor painting
from 1956 by custodian Albert Bates

 

Building Permit from 1927

 

 

9 Mile and Wanda - Looking southwest c1949

 

 

Fern-Wood Chevrolet Dealership
located on Woodward - date unknown

 

Hodge's used car lot

 

C. H. Harrison Building Rendering 1930

 

Business advertisements from the 1930s

 

Detroit News Movie Listings - Sunday June 5 1939
(click for larger image)

 

 

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