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Night Streetcar Light Trails from Downtown YMCA, Detroit (Circa 1925)

A high-angle nighttime view looking down from an upper window onto rain-slicked Detroit streets, showing sweeping light trails from passing streetcars and automobiles beside the Truscon storefront. — Night Streetcar Light Trails from Downtown YMCA, Detroit (Circa 1925) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

While working as an aeronautical engineer on the Ford Tri-Motor in Detroit circa 1925, Donald A. Hall Sr. documented Grand Circus Park from the Downtown YMCA. This vertical long-exposure captures sweeping light trails across wet asphalt outside the Truscon Steel offices.