DetroitPhoto Du Jour

ATM Inside

April 26, 2006
Fort and Scotten is the scene of today’s Photo Du Jour. This brightly painted shop grabbed my attenion for two reasons. 1. It’s bright yellow 2. It’s the only building on the block. I couldn’t find out much for a history on this one. It was built after 1900, and in 1921 it was serving as a drug store. I would hazard around 1910 was when this one was built. It features…
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Great Lakes Greyhound

April 25, 2006
Another one from down on Fort Street. I have always admired this one from the Bridge crossing over, and I have long been meaning to shoot it. It’s a big place, 95,000 sq ft of office and 130,000 sq ft of warehouse. Sadly the Crown Enterprises sign informs us that it…
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Fleet Speciality Warehouse

April 24, 2006
Located at 2600 W. Fort St., this old warehouse building sports a date of construction of 1897. On what is now a truck yard near the Ambassador Bridge, this building is the only remaining peice of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd Reformatory for Girls that once occupied the…
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Keepin' it Rural

April 20, 2006
So yeah… I drove from Tecumseh, MI to Ypsi-tucky the other day. Here are the “highlights”. Thanks Google Maps for picking a “different” route. The Water tower at a factory south of Tecumseh. V.F.W. hall in Tecumseh A Rustosaurus. Al Meyers Airport. From the Michigan Marker out front: The Al Meyers Airport is a privately owned airport designed for public use. It…
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Maple Apartments

April 19, 2006
I am always amused by the practice of false facading. Take the Maple Apartments for example. Here’s a building with stone trim an a great yellow/oranage brick facade. As you can see along the side, cheaper brown comon brick was slapped up there. If there is one thing…
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Kasle Steel

April 18, 2006
Back at the end of March, on the end of the Canadian Motor Lamp post, there were some comments posted about terrible places to work. Burningrome had posted that the worst place to work in Windsor “had to be Kasle Steel over on Sprucewood by the racetrack &#8211…
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Get in the time machine...

April 12, 2006
We’re going all the way back to 2001…. Ford Field under construction. There was lots of activity here. Work being done to the Hudson’s site, and the Compuware site. Seems like so long ago that there was parking on one side of Washington. Looking north…
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Dominion Forge

April 6, 2006
On Seminole across the street from the former Motor Lamp factory is the massive Dominion Forge Complex. Once home to giant stamping presses that fabricated parts for the automotive industry, the complex today is used as a warehouse. Stories have it that the presses were so…