Print, Photographic

Grand Circus Park - Gaja Kristnasko

Black and white photo of a Walker and Company billboard with the Esperanto Christmas greeting, "Gaja Kristnasko," above a smaller sign that reads, "We Hope You Have One!" atop the Brass Rail Theatre on West Adams Street, taken from the east side of Woodward Avenue in Grand Circus Park. Also visible along Adams Street are an optometrist located at street-level in Grand Park Centre; Derry's Cafeteria, the Brass Rail Theatre Bar, and a Doubleday Books Shop in the Brass Rails Theatre Building; and the Fyfe Building. The Palms Theatre and Fox Theatre are in the background. Pedestrians, a newspaper vendor, and advertising signs are along the sidewalks of Woodward Avenue. A "Detroit Photographic Historiography Project" label is affixed to the verso:

Subject: Grand Circus Park - Gaja Kristnasko
Year: 1950
Date Taken: January 7th
Hour of Day: 2 PM
Street No.:
Geographical Description: View from Woodward & Witherell, looking north. Sign is in Esperanto.
Photographer: John Naslanic
Address: 6885 Mansfield, Detroit 28, Michigan
Camera Club: Ford Motor Camera Club