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Pictures of our Heritage

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Lovell G. Turnbull 1st Village President (1918)	Original Crow's Nest c1920's (Left) and Replica at Woodward and 9 Mile 2006 (Right)
City Yard 1920s looking south	Roy's Radio, corner of Allen & West Marshall 1930s
Hooley Real Estate at 9 Mile & Woodward 1920's	Parade on West 9 Mile
White Cruiser Woodward and Breckenridge 1948	Woodward and 9 Mile looking north 1946
Peppy's was located at 1000 West Nine Mile	Lipton Tea container. Date unknown
F.W. Woolworth's Company on Nine Mile c1920's	Night scene on 9 Mile c1920's - looking west
Interior of the Historical Museum 2007	Ferndale Theater on Woodward now the Magic Bag
Original Canadian Legion building plot survey	Spaudling & Curtin during Ferndale's 50th Anniversary
April 1st, 1947 Flood (Milk still being delivered)	Mural on 9 Mile and Planavon south parking lot 2007
Barth Photographic Studios 1930's	Traffic jam on Woodward & 9 Mile looking South c1922
Mural at 9 Mile and Allen by Daniel Cascardo in 2005	Rendering of Ferndale High School
Prohibition Era confiscation by Ferndale Police c1920's	Miss Helm's Kindergarten Class at Ridgewood School 1925
The Library at 222 East 9 Mile - looking Southeast	S & C Coffee Car on West 9 Mile 1960's
American State Bank at Woodward & Vester 1923	Woodward and 8 Mile before overpass - looking East
City Hall 1965 near 8 Mile on the eastside of Woodward	Keeley's Grocery Store on West 9 Mile c1920's
Witbeck's Appliance store 1947	Future site of the new City Hall on East 9 Mile 1957
Woodward and 9 Mile 1950's - looking southeast	Hazelhurst Street west of Central 1934
St. James Church service held in a Chicken Coop 1920	Winter on Hazelhurst c1923
9 Mile & Woodward looking West 1925	Lincoln High School Watercolor painting from 1956 by custodian Albert Bates
Grand Trunk Railroad train yard	Building Permit from 1927
Lincoln High School Football Team 1925	9 Mile and Wanda - Looking southwest c1949
Wetmore Service Station & Packard Dealership Woodward and Drayton Avenue 1938 (Hover on Pic)	Fern-Wood Chevrolet Dealership located on Woodward - date unknown
9 Mile and Planavon looking East towards Allen Street	War memorabilia on display in the Museum 2007
Lincoln High School at 9 Mile and Livernois c1949	Hodge's used car lot
Leggett Farms Subdivision	C. H. Harrison Building Rendering 1930
50 MPH speeding ticket from 1938 - fine: $5.00	Business advertisements from the 1930s

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Pictures of our Heritage

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