Even when I was a child I was always in awe at the tall ceilings in buildings especially the rain stations we road the train from California to Iowa several times and every time I saw that interior of the train stations it was real cool.

 

That's some cool architecture. I am always amazed by what people can build.

 

Good morning guys. Well the warmth was nice while it lasted (Fri 53, Sat 50, Sun 47). Back down in the teens and snowing this morning; suppose to get 4" today.

I'm 'stepping up to plate' and have started bidding on some old Michigan porcelain license plates which are years 1910-1914. I figure it's all good if I can get lucky and get some for a good price. Right now my oldest plate is 1920.

 

License plates are fun to collect, my Grandson has begun a collection that I have contributed to.
I gave him my old California plates from when I lived out there in the 60's.
I explained to him and his mother that they came off of my Fathers car and not to toss them out when she no longer wanted to keep them. I fear someday that the few Antiques we have in the House she will not see the value of and just toss them out.
She did that with a couple of collectables that I gave her.
I think I still have a plate from the 30's someplace, might need to send out a search party for it.

 

Yeah they are, I have roughly 250 plates right now. I got about 80 plates each from both of my Grandpas (they saved all their plates since the mid 50s) and I've acquired the rest. I currently have maybe 25 plates displayed in the house or garage, mostly the old ones, and the rest are in a few boxes. What I have heard is that anything pre-1970 is what will be the most valuable.

 

Good morning everyone, starting out to be a nice day here but that only means that snow is coming. I did manage to visit a few junk yards yesterday and found the frame section I was looking for my Monte. It's been years since I have stepped foot in a junk yard and it reminded me where I got my start fixing car's. Will be a few weeks before I can get my car in so I can stretch the last couple of inches of frame to get the 110.5 inch wheelbase.

 

Good morning guys, 10 degrees this morning.

So Detroit has been experiencing a construction boom for the first time in a long time. In addition to a bunch of smaller new construction and a ton of existing rehabs going on it appears there is quite a few new projects going vertical. We've got (1) the Hudson's Site that, at 800 ft. tall, will be the tallest building in Detroit/Michigan, (2) the Monroe Block that, at this point, looks to be anchored by a main tower of roughly 500-550' tall which would place it at possibly 4th tallest in Detroit, (3) a rumored 20-story tower near Comerica Park, along Woodward, which would probably be just shy of 300' tall, (4) a rumored 35-story tower in the New Center area which would also be around 500-550' tall and (5) an 8 to 10-story building along the river near Belle Isle. This is probably the most active I have seen Detroit in my lifetime.