The new pictorial book "20th Century Retailing in Downtown Detroit"
features an era when shopping downtown was a bustling spectacle.
Excerpt:
The book covers shopping in every season downtown, but the
accompanying photo gallery focuses on the holidays in an era before
most major retail had moved to suburban malls.
In putting
together their book, Hauser and Weldon chose photographs from several
local archives, and most of them have not been widely seen. Hauser, who
is the marketing manager for the Detroit Opera Theatre and the Detroit
Opera House, said the project is an extension of work he did producing
an exhibit in 1997 on the J.L. Hudson department store for the Detroit
Historical Museum, which was followed by an Arcadia book on Hudson’s by
Weldon and him.
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