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November 3rd, 2010, 03:32 AM
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Making Detroit look good!
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DETROIT Photo Tour (10/23/10): Downtown, RenCen, Brush Park, Midtown - PART ONE
Hey guys,
I visited the Motor City YET AGAIN on October 23, came down for a Red Wings game, little bowling, good food, hotel accommodations at the Renaissance Center and an art tour to go with it. Without further ado, here's another one of my fine Detroit tours...  Looking up at the Renaissance Center, I stayed in the Marriott Hotel...   View of Windsor, Ontario from my room...  Watergarden dome  Tower 300 of the Renaissance Center   Most comfortable bed I have ever slept on in my life, period...  Little tour of the RenCen     Walked to the People Mover station, waiting for the train...  The People Mover arrives! Took it to Grand Circus Park  A few shots from around Grand Circus Park   The famous Fillmore Theatre, a popular concert venue  Fox Theatre   Hockeytown Cafe on Woodward Ave.  St. Johns Episcopal Church  New townhouses appear in the Brush Park Neighborhood, north of downtown and I-75.  Two bombed-out buildings... sadly something that is not uncommon in Detroit  Building in Cass Park slated for demolition  Detroit's Brush Park neighborhood... in this neighborhood, once home to prominent and beautiful Colonial and Victorian-style mansions, it has fallen on hard times, although is seeing some rejuvenation and life...     Unfortunately unkempt houses and burned-out houses like this still linger around Brush Park...     I believe this house is going to be restored...   Two more beauties...           [IMG][/IMG]  A castle-like apartment building bombed out, however the trees add colour to it...                 SO MUCH POTENTIAL! Being footsteps away from downtown, Comerica Park, Ford Field, Fox Theatre, and the People Mover!       Masonic Temple    Bonstelle Theatre, part of Wayne State University  Milner Arms Apartment Building  New Building on Woodward  Orchestra Hall   Professional Plaza  Harper Hospital and DMC   Buildings slated for renovation along Woodward Avenue   Another bombed-out building, slated for demolotion...  One of Detroit's Premier Entertainment Centers, Majestic Theatre and the Garden Bowl Lanes, built in 1919, it is the oldest continually-used bowling alley in the United States.  Inside the Garden Bowl...  Bowled a few games...  The last one was my best, 173!  Union Street Saloon, a fine dining restaurant across from the Majestic/Garden Bowl...  Nice decor, very saloon-like, the steak here was excellent...  Detroit School of Arts...  St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church     Two old former performing arts centers...  Addison Building  First Presbyterian Church    Skyline...        Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers  David Broderick Tower and David Whitney Building, near the People Mover station...  nited Artists building, owned by Mike Ilitch, may be soon-to-be renovated  Kales Building on the right and two other buildings vacant   After getting back to my hotel, on the PM again, made to the Joe Louis Arena for the game...  "Terrible" Ted Lindsay statue in the concourse  Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe statue  Concourse of the Joe   Sweet seats, right in the center...  Red Wings practising...    Opening faceoff...  Red Wings score early to make it 1-0 on the power play! Henrik Zetterberg with the goal!     Ducks took a two-goal lead after a goal to make it 3-1, they had to review it, but I thought it went win, unfortunately...  Face-off in the Red Wings zone in the second period...  Red Wings trailing 3-1...  But the Red Wings answer the call! THE MULE (Johan Franzen), makes it 3-2!  Then Tomas Holmstrom ties it at 3-3, after standing in front of the goalie and re-deflecting it in!   Zambonis clearing the ice for the 3rd Period...  Red Wings Bench...  Start of the 3rd period...   After Anaheim made it 4-3 with a five-hole goal by Teemu Selanne, the Red Wings tied it up on another goal by Henrik Zetterberg!  Crowd getting antsy...   Everybody stood the last few minutes of the game... Less than five minutes in the game, Detroit pressing...   Red Wings continue to press...  While Jimmy Howard holds fort in the other end...   Pavel Datsyuk scores through a crowd over the goalie and wins the game with 11.4 seconds left in the third period!    Red Wings win!!! Congratulating Jimmy Howard!!!!  5-4 Detroit the final!    Pavel Datsyuk the second star of the game...  Henrik Zetterberg the first star of the game...   The Joe after the game...   Blurry shot of Windsor...  RenCen at night...  The Financial District area of Detroit, would have taken more night pictures...  but it started to rain heavily, argh!  Back in my room, watching game 6 of the NLCS between the Giants and Phillies... which the Phillies lost sadly  Looking across at Windsor from my room at night...  Tower 300 at night of the RenCen  Hope you all enjoyed it!!! Part two coming soon with more of Midtown, and the Detroit Institute of Arts! 
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November 4th, 2010, 03:34 AM
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Sound like you had a wonderful first day in Detroit! It has been almost a year since my last visit and I miss the city already.
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November 4th, 2010, 03:51 AM
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Did you go there by yourself?
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November 4th, 2010, 03:07 PM
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Great photos!
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November 4th, 2010, 03:20 PM
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Philly sports fan
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Nice pictures! Brush Park has some great houses, too bad no one wants to live in them.
Joe Louis Arena has a big concouse. I don't know if I've ever seen a place with a roof that high. It looks like the main area of a convention hall of something. I didn't think I'd see a Phillies blurb in here! |
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November 9th, 2010, 05:52 AM
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It's absolutely disgusting that so many HUGE buildings are slated for demolition. No other city in America would do such a thing. Times may be tough right now for Detroit, but buildings like Cass Tech and others shown in this thread are its biggest competitive advantage, and the only thing that sets this grand old city apart from Houston, Atlanta and other Sunbelt cities that have overshadowed Detroit in recent times. Once Detroit loses these gems, it will be one step closer to Anyplace, USA, and two steps farther from a place people want to be.
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November 10th, 2010, 04:47 AM
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Making Detroit look good!
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I'm a kind of person feeling like living back in the 1950s, one who favors and enjoys the Golden-age, rust-belt cities of Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, and the Gothic skylines of New York and Philadelphia. In my eye, they have more character, soul, and history to be pictured than today's world-class, cosmopolitan, and sprawling cities. Jaybird's ZENFOLIO Photo Galleries Jaybird's PBASE Photo Galleries |
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November 11th, 2010, 03:51 PM
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What would you pay for an abandoned building/ home and what would it cost to bring it back into shape?
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Making Detroit look good!
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I'm a kind of person feeling like living back in the 1950s, one who favors and enjoys the Golden-age, rust-belt cities of Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, and the Gothic skylines of New York and Philadelphia. In my eye, they have more character, soul, and history to be pictured than today's world-class, cosmopolitan, and sprawling cities. Jaybird's ZENFOLIO Photo Galleries Jaybird's PBASE Photo Galleries |
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