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This 1922 vest pocket snapshot was taken by Orlou Bayley with her camera pointed south. She was standing in front of the brown stained California Bungalow still located at 247 Oakland Avenue, mid-block, between Ferndale and Park Street. Both houses behind the youngsters were torn down when Oakland was widened into a Boulevard. The children are unidentified, and the occasion has long since been forgotten. Whether they were putting on their own parade or were going to take part in a village wide 4th of July celebration, we'll probably never know. At least they do look like they're really having fun. Note the wooden wheels on the one coaster wagon. Your webmaster once owned such a wagon, inherited from his father.
Here we are looking east toward town in about 1916. Edward R. Smith, Jr. is at the wheel of his father's PAIGE sedan. Arrow 1. points to the home of the miller who produced flour at the water powered grist mill once located on the MILL POND now known as QUARTON LAKE. Arrow 2. points to the roof of the old mill which was on the north side of West Maple, near the southwest corner of Quarton Lake. In the distance, if you look carefully below Arrow 3., you can see the smoke stack of the steam powered waterworks which used to be a little east of the bridge over the Rouge River on the south side of Maple. The houses in the far distance near the top right of the photo were located on Southfield Road.
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