Trolly to Navin Field, Detroit 1934 by Corktown Historical Society
Yesterday Model D editor Aaron Foley took a fascinating look at July 24, 1934 which remains the hottest day in the Detroit’s recorded history when the temperature struck 104.6°F at 4:10 PM on Detroit’s 233rd anniversary:
That brutal day came during a nationwide heat wave that swept from the West Coast through the Great Plains and into the Midwest, ultimately settling over the Motor City. More than 700 people died across the country due to the heat. Detroit’s death toll was lower than most. An eight-month old baby named Rosie May died of heat exhaustion and two men drowned swimming while trying to cool down. But low death toll or not, the city felt the heat.
And 105°F isn’t just “hot.” It’s desperate. On Van Dyke, on the city’s east side, a lumber yard fire broke out, engulfing nearly 10 acres. The blaze destroyed nearly 3,000 telephone lines, and claimed five lives
The Corktown Historical Society shares this photo depicts the historic intersection of Michigan & Trumbull aka “The Corner” in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood in 1934, a year the Tigers won the AL pennant. They share “Trolley cars were a popular source of transportation to Tigers games during the 1930s, at least for those who could afford the fare during the Depression. In this photo, hundreds of fans exit a trolley car near Navin Field.”
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That was interesting and I’ve never seen one of the original trolley cars from Detroit. We had red trolley cars in the 80s in Downtown Detroit. Coworkers and I used to catch the trolley outside our building which was located on Fort and Washington Boulevard and the trolley went along Washington Boulevard which at that time, if I remember correctly, was closed to traffic. We might have taken it to Hart Plaza too for the ethnic festivals. It cost a quarter to ride it. In the Summertime, there used to be bands or sometimes just a musician that played around mid-day on Washington Boulevard and people would take the trolley, get their lunch and sit and listen to them on their lunch hour. It was a regular “thing” long before the beach at Campus Martius. :) (The semi-olden days.)
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“Semi olden days” 😅
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Yes, I stopped myself from writing “olden days”. :)
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