Needless to say, I did not take any of the photos in the Historic Photos area of this web site. However, I have been fascinated with these amazing hi-resolution images ever since I discovered them on the photo blog site Shorpy. Even though these photos from the Detroit News’ extensive photo archives are nearly a century old (some even older), taken long before today’s hi-definition video technology, they are so sharp that they seem more like portals into a bygone world than mere static photography.