Американский Чернобыль
Jan. 12th, 2011 01:31 amРуины когда-то крупного города, культурной столицы. Уже полвека город пребывает в частичном запустении и ренессанса не предвидится. Добро пожаловать в исторический Детройт - вотчину и жертву "чикагской школы".

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit.
The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974

East Methodist Church

Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911

East Side Public Library

Atrium, Farwell Building

Michigan Central Station

18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower

Donovan Building

David Whitney Building

Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit

Offices, Highland Park Police Station

The biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park

St Christopher House, ex-Public Library

The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel,
an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s

Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel

Michigan Theatre

View of Woodward Avenue from the Broderick Tower

Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers.
Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here.

William Livingstone House, Brush Park, a French Renaissance-style house
designed by Albert Kahn in 1893 and demolished since this photograph was taken

Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station

Ballroom, Fort Wayne Hotel

Fort Shelby Hotel

First Unitarian Church

Melted clock, Cass Technical High School

Piano, Saint Albertus School

Luben Apartments

Rich-Dex Apartments

Classroom, St Margaret Mary School

Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School

Wallpaper

Fisher Body 21 Plant

Packard Motors Plant

Packard Motors Plant
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В заброшенном полицейском участке французские фотографы нашли дела дюжины женщин, убитых известным серийным убийцей в начале 90'х, чьи тела тот подкидывал в давно заброшенные дома. Весьма символичный текст.

The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit.
The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974

East Methodist Church

Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911

East Side Public Library

Atrium, Farwell Building

Michigan Central Station

18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower

Donovan Building

David Whitney Building

Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit

Offices, Highland Park Police Station

The biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park

St Christopher House, ex-Public Library

The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel,
an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s

Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel

Michigan Theatre

View of Woodward Avenue from the Broderick Tower

Detroit’s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers.
Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here.

William Livingstone House, Brush Park, a French Renaissance-style house
designed by Albert Kahn in 1893 and demolished since this photograph was taken

Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station

Ballroom, Fort Wayne Hotel

Fort Shelby Hotel

First Unitarian Church

Melted clock, Cass Technical High School

Piano, Saint Albertus School

Luben Apartments

Rich-Dex Apartments

Classroom, St Margaret Mary School

Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School

Wallpaper

Fisher Body 21 Plant

Packard Motors Plant

Packard Motors Plant
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В заброшенном полицейском участке французские фотографы нашли дела дюжины женщин, убитых известным серийным убийцей в начале 90'х, чьи тела тот подкидывал в давно заброшенные дома. Весьма символичный текст.
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Date: 2011-01-12 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-12 06:53 pm (UTC)Вот сейчас в центре Москвы огромную гостиницу Россия сносят. А если б земля ничего не стоила, то разрушать было бы дорого. Так бы и бросили, здание пришло бы в упадок. Вот так и Детройт. Другие города с ранней заглохшей индустрией поднялись как-то, а Детройт тормозит позорно. Эти руины уже в достопримечательности превратились.
Что было
Что стало
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Date: 2011-01-12 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-12 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 07:23 pm (UTC)история
Date: 2011-01-12 06:59 pm (UTC)Самая высокая преступность в стране. Голливуд снимает фильмы там