Not all bad in Detroit

MarkB_MI · Mar 23, 2010

A few weeks ago I posted pictures of the derelict Michigan Central train station in Detroit. <A HREF="http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=852940">http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=852940</A> But not all of the great old buildings here have been lost. Here's a couple of pictures inside the lobby of the Guardian building, Detroit's crown jewel skyscraper. It was completed in 1929, just in time for the market to crash. Its impressive lobby earned it the name "the Cathedral of Finance".

<a href="http://s804.photobucket.com/albums/yy327/mark_in_michigan/Detroit%20Architecture/?action=view&current=guardian_bldg2.jpg" target="_blank">

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<a href="http://s804.photobucket.com/albums/yy327/mark_in_michigan/Detroit%20Architecture/?action=view&current=guardian_bldg1.jpg" target="_blank">

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See more pictures at the Guardian building home page (dialup warning, Flash intro):
The Guardian Building

Dean · Mar 23, 2010

Fascinating, Mark. A true icon.

Hopefully it can be preserved. It would make a great railroad museum if the community can come up with funding.

Are the images paintings or mosaics?

Dean

Mike (WA) · Mar 23, 2010

I've heard many wonderful things about your current Governor. Is that her in the second photo, radiating wisdom and light from the center of Michigan?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2010

It is surprising that the monkees that make up the population of Detroit haven't trashed it.

Gun guru · Mar 23, 2010

You mentioned that you go to Detroit a lot, Why? Do you have to go there for work? I havent been downtown since Summer 2007, and the wife made me go. The last time before that was in 1999 when my wife graduated from Walsh college and the full ceremony and all that.

I cant stand that city and the crime and all the bad that it is.

Gun guru · Mar 23, 2010

Actually it is trashed. Just go to the neighborhoods and see the burned out homes and the deserted buildings. (Almost looks like a warzone) I havent been through a neighborhood in many years.

Anybody with ambition to work or improve themselves left many years ago.
This is a fact: I am 40 years old and only 1 person I know has lived in Detroit, I am talking about white people.

Paul from MI · Mar 23, 2010

NOT---NO WAY!!!! Seen no light or wisdom out of her in the last seven years. Yay term limits.

MarkB_MI · Mar 23, 2010

Dean,

The Guardian Building has been completely restored and I think it's almost fully occupied. But the Michigan Central Depot (in my earlier post) is another story. Ironically, the ten million dollars it would take to restore it is pocket change for owner Manny Maroun, who also owns the Ambassador Bridge. But there's really nothing you could use it for: It's far too big for almost anything, it's a mile away from downtown, where half the buildings are vacant anyway.

If I recall correctly, the mural in the Guardian Building is a mosaic.

MarkB_MI · Mar 23, 2010

G-G, I've been working in downtown for close to a year now.

I might have once felt the same as you about Detroit, but now I can only be sad as I see its grand old buildings from the 1920s coming down one by one. The last casualty was the Lafayette Building, which I've watched come down over the past year.
Lafayette Building

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2010

Didn't the idea for the Berlin wall come from Detroit, they must have been spying..Sacre bleu..

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2010

Didn't the idea for the Berlin wall come from Detroit, they must have been spying..Sacre bleu..

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