Art & Inspiration Ruins of detroit

Seeing the ruins with your own eyes is absolutely amazing.

Shocking, sad and beautiful all at the same time

 

And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

 

I moved out of Detroit about 3 years ago,never looked back...everyone in office in Detroit have there hands out tryin to profit,instead of doing right by the residents!!! It's a damn shame!

 

Yep. I've been there a few times. Took a tour through the Rouge plant when in high school and took some photos then. All my photos are on film...now I need a scanner.

 

I drove a tow truck there for awhile. There were some interesting cars hidden in some of those garages and yards. The most interesting one was a green '53 Ford tudor with 1959 plates and repair bills from 1960 in the glove box. Just sitting in a backyard, windows not even broken.

 

I work in the City very often and I always have my eyes open loking for stuff. I dream of finding that " my son built it in 1959 " car. I did hear of someone finding a old Model A Hot Rod in a older ladys garage while doing some heating and cooling work, she got a new furnace and Central Air, he got the A. I have a PPG contact that got a rare optioned 70 Chevelle from a lady that worked at the GM Tech Center. He and his brother restored it and sold it at BJ a couple years ago

 

I personally have been to Detroit multiple times and like the city. Maybe it's because I grew up, and have lived in industrial towns in Ohio my whole life. I have a mutual respect for residents in these "rust belt" cities, whether it is Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Buffalo, etc. It's always people who have never even been to our home towns who say that the cities are sh*t. Well, those sh*t cities are still filled with hard-working, good people of great character.

Photographs can tell a story, but there's always more to be told.

 

For me, this one kinda says it all. I've seen a lot of things abandoned over the years, but never a grand piano...

 

I used to go every year for the auto show. It is always amazing to me that even the roads and bridges are in such disrepair. We were on a bridge one year and stopped- there were no road closed signs or anything just a dilapidated bridge. I got out and could see through the rebar to the ground below. We quickly got off that bridge.

You know you are a car guy when the site of run down car factories pulls at your heart. Like the picture of the Packard plant and Fisher body- imagine how many of those cars you drove or drooled over (I mean come on Packard???) came right out of that concrete. And there is no monument, no historical plaque or even a mention of it on a map- just an abandon factory littered with graffiti and broken windows. I think it would be great to have a tour of all the old plants in the area.