MGM Grand with Motor City Casino in the background
Category Archives: deco
art deco design style
fisher building
Detroit
fisher building – arcade detail
ford drive-in theatre
milford powerhouse
fisher building
cincinnati union terminal
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the elwood
elevator lobby
Fisher Building
streamline moderne
Formerly the Willis Show Bar; closed in 1978 but expected to reopen this year.
wwj transmitter building
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Designed by Albert Kahn circa 1936, now vacant – Oak Park, MI
the elwood
gulf station
Algiers Point – New Orleans
“cathedral of finance”
Guardian Building – Detroit
gold on the ceiling
Guardian Building
milford powerhouse
christmas card
Fisher Building – Detroit
milford powerhouse
Albert Kahn design, circa 1939
deco filling station
opened 1936 as the McGeachy Filling Station, now a convenience store and bio-diesel fuel station
Asheville, NC
the marlin hotel
Streamline Moderne, circa 1939; Miami Beach, FL
vintage radio dial
1941 Detrola model 417; made in Detroit
ford drive-in theatre
Opened 1950; still showing outdoor movies year round – Dearborn, MI
deco building with sundial
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14th Street and Drexel Avenue, Miami Beach
milford powerhouse
Also known as the Pettibone Creek hydroelectric station; designed by Albert Kahn; constructed in 1939 as part of Henry Ford’s village industries.
lumina volta 