45 vintage photos documenting holiday celebrations in Detroit through the years

By Metro Times editorial staff on Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 5:51 pm

These photos show the heyday of shopping in Detroit, when a trip to J.L. Hudson Department Store was an event that you got dressed up for in your best outfit.

All photos used courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University/Virtual Motor City collection.

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Christmas shoppers downtown. (1934)

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Christmas shoppers downtown. (1931)

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Bishop Michael J. Gallagher in Ecclesiastical Vestments. Thanksgiving groundbreaking at U of D. (1925)

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Masons. (1926)

Thousands of freemasons wearing aprons gather, marching down Temple Street from Woodward Avenue toward Detroit's new Masonic Temple, for the Temple dedication ceremony on Thanksgiving Day in 1926.

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