From Streetcar City to Automobile City
Compare these two photographs of major streets in downtown Detroit, the one on the top probably from the late 1910s or the 1920s, the one on the bottom probably from the late 1940s. The electric streetcars so prominent in the earlier photograph are absent from the second, which instead contains automobiles and buses only.
Images from the Collections of Virtual Motor City. (c) 2003 Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. All images associated with the Virtual Motor City Collection are protected by United States copyright law. Duplication or sale of all or part of any of the data or images is not permitted without consent of the copyright holder. 1) ID49253 and 2) ID48562_3 .
