Category Archives: deco and mid century
low winter sun
Ally Detroit Center and the Guardian Building
abandon in place
Abandon in Place.
No Further Maintenance Authorized.
Abandon. Turn away your face.
No more the mad high wanderings of thought
You once surmised. Let be!
Wipe out the stars. Put out the skies.
– Ray Bradbury, 1981
casino hotels
MGM Grand with Motor City Casino in the background
fisher building
Detroit
ford drive-in theatre
milford powerhouse
the 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.
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