This picture was taken 48 years from the year I was born and its now been 48 years since I was born in late 1975. Was there more of a change from 1927 to 1975 or 1975 to 2024?

My grandfather owned a similar drugstore back then and I recognize some of the signs and products in the window. It also had a corner entrance with a scale. He showed me how to stand on it and weigh myself, then another person could trade places, but if you didn't do it just right it would click closed.

When I was a young boy in the early ‘60s my family went to an old dentist who was close to retirement, so he didn’t have the latest and greatest equipment. The drill was operated by a foot pedal. The old guy had arthritis in his knee from pumping the pedal all those years. I still remember the belts and pulleys rotating. His knee would lock up and right in the middle of drilling a cavity, the drill would slow down and speed up. I didn’t go to the dentist again until I got married. My wife’s dentist advertised he was good with children so I went. Had 14 cavities. Now I go every 4 months because if you aren’t true to your teeth, they will be false to you.

Enter Harvey Korman and Tim Conway.

There is a plethora of possible titles for this post. Van Loon and Creedon?
Arctic Ice Cream? United Cigars? Permanent Marcel Wave? The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Saks Dept Store and so on. Dentist Dentist is fine.

Very up to date modern equipment, high speed drills, X-rays, well staffed. The days of drill 'em fill 'em and pull 'em are over thank you Good Lord.

The Malt & Hops Supplies store is vacant and for lease. Was this a store for commercial brewers before Prohibition? A thinly veiled resource for the do-it-yourself home alcohol maker?

[There were hundreds if not thousands of these stores during Prohibition, serving those thirsty souls wanting to make (near) beer at home. No veils required. - Dave]

That's a LOT of electrical wires hanging up there! Looks dangerous to my modern eyes.

[Streetcar catenaries and their web of supports. - Dave]

The building survives! That's not always a given in Detroit - the population dropped from a high of 1.8 million to about 700K today, so the city has a much smaller need for buildings. The original drugstore has evolved to a hookah supply shop today. Looking at the Street View history just since 2009, it was also a grocery store and a dollar store.

The original building also had a beer supply store, for all the home brewers during Prohibition.

Finally, I see the building to the right which appears to be under construction also survived.