Yesterday's Live Journal post contained a photo of this building at the corner of Cochrane and Pine Streets...
...as well as an undated photo that seems like it could be from the early forties...
I might be able to date the photo better if I knew anything about old cars. I found that photo on Virtual Motor City, where it is bafflingly mislabeled as a police station.
Yesterday I erroneously assumed that the building was from the 1930s. It actually first appears in the city directory in 1926. Its first occupant was the Service Printing Company, founded in 1919 by Herbert S. Wolfe, John F. McNutt, and Elden Glanser. When they moved into this building, its address was 2606 National Ave. The street was renamed Cochrane in honor of Detroit Tigers player/manager Mickey Cochrane shortly after his death in 1962.
I was able to find an advertisement for this company in the 1927 directory:
You know something? I think it kind of looked better back then.
Trees are good. I dread the day that the ones on Bagley will have to come down.
I don't even know what species of trees are already out there. I need to be tree educated.