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Belle Isle Coast Guard Station

August 29, 2007
On Friday’s post about the Ste. Claire, regular reader cpike, asked a question about the Belle Isle Coast Guard Station: …I am looking for a photo of the Coast Guard station on Belle Isle, before it was torn down and rebuilt in the 70’s ( I think that is when the rebuild took place)… I could only come up with this lousy current photo of the coast guard post&#8230…
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Ste. Claire

August 24, 2007
Built in 1910, and along with her sister ship, 1902’s Columbia, the Ste. Claire ferried passengers from Detroit to Boblo Island until Labor Day 1991. The ship has a capacity of 2500(!) passengers. The ship was purchased by new owners in 2006 who are trying to restore…
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Happy Birthday

June 15, 2007
Today International Metropolis is happy to celebrate our 4th anniversary. This website launched, looking very different in its version 1.0, on June 15, 2003 with the photo above. The photo above was the former general offices of the Miller-Strom Company on the corner of…
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Slumpy Collapse Caught On Film

May 2, 2007
As you know I’ve spent many years and many posts documenting old Slumpy A few weeks ago she collapsed, and you have to love the power of the internet, someone caught it on camera. Click here to watch the collapse on Youtube. If you’re at work, turn down the sound, there’s a little bit of swearing – FYI. I can’t believe that: a. Someone caught it on camera. and b.
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Slumpty Dumpty

April 27, 2007
Long time readers will know that I have been documenting the Livingstone house in Detroit’s Brush Park over the last 5 years. I’ve had a long time friendly bet with dETROITfUNK about who would be the first to capture Ol’ Slumpy when she finally collapsed.
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Belle Isle Bridge Approach

March 16, 2007
Here are a pair of photos of the long gone Belle Isle Bridge Approach in Detroit. The original bridge was built in 1889, and destroyed in a fire in 1915. In 1923, the current bridge was built to link the mainland to the island. When it opened there was a nifty underground…
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Slumptastic

February 2, 2007
Back north of the border for today’s photo. Well, it’s sad to say, but I think time’s about up for old Slumpy. When both layers of bricks peel off, and the structural interior framing starts to give way, it’s just a matter of time. Compared to last March, the last 11 months, have not been good. Way back in August 2002, it still even looked salvagable. Hard to believe…
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2007 North American International Auto Show

January 19, 2007
January means autoshow. In the annual installment, I present this year’s NAIAS. Here are some highlights, and in no particular order… The Lamborghini display… The Maserati display… The Mitsubishi Prototype-X. This was on a Nissan hybrid…
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2006 - The Year In Review

January 2, 2007
As I have been doing for the last several years (the 2005 Review is here, 2004, 2003), I try to recap the buildings that have been lost over the past year, and present them as a summary. This house in Windsor went up in flames to an arsonist early in the Summer of 2006.