Print, Photographic
Sepia-toned photo of the northwest corner of Woodward Avenue and Elizabeth Street, including the Grand Circus Theatre, being prepared for demolition by the McCormick Wrecking Company to make way for the State Theatre, as taken from the southeast corner. A large sign posted on the Elizabeth side of the corner building reads, "This is the site of John H. Kunsky's New State Theatre, For Space Inquire Wormer & Moore." Another sign posted above the awning on the Woodward side of the corner reads, "Buildings Being Wrecked by McCormick Wrecking Co. All Material for Sale on Job or Yard, Holbrook [and] Conant." A pile of beams are stacked on the sidewalk along Woodward Avenue, and several workers are visible near a "Bricks for Sale" sign at the theater. Signs for the Woodward Sample Furniture Company, a hotel, a lunch restaurant, the Central Cigar Company, Strang's watches and silverware, and Liggett's Drugs are still posted on the block. Posters for the Gayety Theatre have been posted over most of the windows of the abandoned storefronts, and several for the Adams Theatre have been posted along the upper side walls of the Grand Circus Theatre. Streetcar tracks, and their overhead lines are visible in the foreground. "64453, 12-29-24," is printed in the lower right corner of the photo. "Manning Bros., Inc. Commercial Photographers, 333 State St. Room 505, Detroit, Michigan," is stamped, and "2100 block Woodward between Elizabeth and Columbia," is handwritten on the verso.
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