It is indeed, but I have some friends that live in the nearby burbs and they say the downtown is slowly coming back and that close in neighborhoods will take some time to recover
When I went to Detroit for my AF physical in 1973 we were put up at what was then the Pick Fort Shelby Hotel in downtown. Many years later I was reading the Detroit Free Press online when I saw some pictures like the ones above of what had once been grand buildings downtown and were then empty wrecks. They had some pictures of the inside of the hotel and they looked a look like the wrecked interiors above. I'm glad to see that someone saw the historical significance of the old hotel and restored and remodeled it and it's now a Doubletree Property. I'm glad it didn't get torn down as was the plan at one time.
The wedding portrait makes a very poignant point of Detroit's tragic collapse. When travelling south from Toronto to Ohio we used to have our hearts in our mouths when we passed (as quickly as possible) through Detroit.
It was always like that, but sadly a lot of big cities in the U.S. are in disrepair and havens for criminals and the like. Parts of Cleveland are the same and Seeing Baltimore after spending a lot of time there in the 70's when stationed on the east coast makes me very sad.
Niceyard and you photograph well from above
At least he was respectful enough to take his hat off for the picture.
Good point
Wow... chilling...
I'm so sad to see Detroit in such a shape!
Dowser
It is indeed, but I have some friends that live in the nearby burbs and they say the downtown is slowly coming back and that close in neighborhoods will take some time to recover
Thank for the perspective
When I went to Detroit for my AF physical in 1973 we were put up at what was then the Pick Fort Shelby Hotel in downtown. Many years later I was reading the Detroit Free Press online when I saw some pictures like the ones above of what had once been grand buildings downtown and were then empty wrecks. They had some pictures of the inside of the hotel and they looked a look like the wrecked interiors above. I'm glad to see that someone saw the historical significance of the old hotel and restored and remodeled it and it's now a Doubletree Property. I'm glad it didn't get torn down as was the plan at one time.
The wedding portrait makes a very poignant point of Detroit's tragic collapse. When travelling south from Toronto to Ohio we used to have our hearts in our mouths when we passed (as quickly as possible) through Detroit.
Randy
Thanks for the feedback
I visited Detroit when I was a lot younger as well and it was a great town and a lot of tourists.
Hopefully that day is coming again.
Buzz
It was always like that, but sadly a lot of big cities in the U.S. are in disrepair and havens for criminals and the like. Parts of Cleveland are the same and Seeing Baltimore after spending a lot of time there in the 70's when stationed on the east coast makes me very sad.
Thanks for the feedback