#dETROIT

[detroitlib]

View of passengers on bus in the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Wall sign shows Detroit and Windsor border. Stamped on back: "Joe Clark, H.B.S.S. 8775 West 9 Mile Rd., Oak Park, Mich. 48237, 399-448[?], pictures that tell [a story]."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[gougerre]

[victusinveritas]

Fordite, born from the discarded paint layers of Detroit's car factories. This stunning specimen showcases the intricate patterns formed over decades of industrial history.

[mysharona1987]

This man is a renowned Jewish historian.

We should absolutely be afraid of where this is going.

[evan-collins90]

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (1977)

Designed by John Portman & Associates

Scanned from the Dec. 1977 issue of Contract Interiors Magazine

[trb752]

The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters.

Opened in March 1929.

Architect: Wirt C. Rowland

Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.

[detroitlib]

View of electric sign on brick building; sign is shaped like an arrow; sign reads: "Cut rate drugs." Recorded in glass negative ledger: "D/Signs & signboards-Paul Ruhter drug store, cut rate drugs."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[correctopinionhaver]

[teameagleworks]

Today was a very good day.

We went to tour Michigan Central Station, and it was spectacular. This train station was the main transit hub in Detroit from 1914 to 1988. If you aren't from here, it's important that you know it was owned by a local billionaire who just let it rot. It was in horrible shape, flooded, every window broken, and pillaged of all of its relics.

But, while it was a sad broken building, it was also home to tons of amazing graffiti art. Ford bought the building in 2018 and began a huge undertaking of restoring it. I could write pages about all the amazing restoration. Thousands of people put in millions of hours. I figured all the graffiti was lost to the renovation.

I was so excited to see that they saved an entire hallway of the original artwork, and I saw this exhibit today.

Here is the text if it's hard to read:

GRAFFITI PRESERVATION

From 1988 to 2018, Michigan Central Station became an important location for graffiti artists who made the building their canvas. There was great respect for the graffiti found in The Station, including early work from Detroit's own Fel3000ft- who says he learned and honed his craft here - and many other prominent artists.

As The Station changed hands, previous owners took steps to remove the graffiti, in some instances damaging the building's walls through improper cleaning techniques. Under Ford's ownership, the significance of this art was not lost on the restoration team. Local artists helped to assess each piece and to ascribe credit to the creators of the graffiti art where possible. The College of Creative Studies documented the work for archival purposes Italian Renaissance art experts who specialize in fresco preservation advised on how best to remove panels of fragile plaster for safekeeping

The guidelines for landmark restoration required that The Station be returned to its original state, but it was important to the team that some of the art remain in place to preserve this chapter of the building's life. They successfully argued for permission to keep some of the graffiti intact, and as you leave through the southeast exit, you will find a hallway where some original graffiti remains.

I love this vibrant city, and I'm excited that if we have to have everything owned by billionaires, that we switched this building to one who has reverence for Detroit and all that makes it beautiful.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Dave Jordano - Coffee Break, Detroit (1972)

[alyavaai]

huge fan since 2018💪

art of 2023

[humanoidhistory]

Escalator at the Detroit Science Center, 1986. Photo by Balthazar Korab.

[kaijuno]

An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

ICE started its undercover operation in 2015, creating a fake office on Northwestern Highway near 13 Mile with a website and an admissions process like a regular university. The University of Farmington was even listed on the website of ICE as a school approved by the U.S. government for students. It seemed real to its 600-plus students, a majority of them immigrants from India interested in studying technology and science. Many students are able to live and work legally in the U.S. through university programs such as the one the University of Farmington touted. The students had arrived legally in the U.S. and were on F-1 student visa programs when they enrolled. But it was all an elaborate operation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations to trick foreign-born students they allege were trying to "pay to stay" in the U.S., a claim the students deny. ICE arrested hundreds of students, deported many of them and others left the U.S. on their own.

[mysharona1987]

[aircooled911]

[detroitlib]

Rider from the Midwest Invitational Rodeo at Juneteenth celebration at Detroit Public Library.