Greetings from Detroit! These images from a long-past era recall a bustling town where tourists, who stayed at such grand hotels as the Book-Cadillac and the Detroit-Leland, had plenty to write home about after visiting such places as Belle Isle, the Fox Theatre, or any number of skyscrapers.
Vintage Detroit postcards — and their breezy notes dashed off by vacationers — tell the story of a onetime must-see stop for American travelers.
“I saw the home of your motor car,” Helen Young wrote to Curtis Wilson in 1923. “This is a pretty city. Am going to try and visit Canada.”
A year earlier, “Cath” wrote to Mrs. Gordon in Hammond, Ind.: “Detroit is some city.”
Vintage Detroit postcards are sold at City Bird in Midtown Detroit; . The Bureau of Urban Living, also in Midtown, sells new Greetings From Detroit postcards; .