If this picture was made today, I would have categorized it as a Photoshop-fail. However, it comes from the early 1900s. I mean, the cars are all so BIG... the small specks next to the parked car are people! (And the trolley is sooo small!) Maybe only giants - that have since gone extinct - drove cars... Or people were more wealthy than Richie Rich!
Here is a real photograph from the Freep archives. This one taken sometime during the 1950s (I think). There are actually trees there, with grass in between. The building - Gotham-like though it may be - is actually beautiful in its own way.
The Detroit Free Press has a bunch of "current" photos of the
inside of this now-shell of a building. There is a chance (again) that the building will be torn down. I think that it would be a shame, since the restoration of the building could be seen as part of a rennaissance of the Motor City. Still, who am I to judge? I never lived in Detroit, and have only visited there twice in all the time that I've lived in southeast Michigan...
(photos from the
Detroit Free Press. Hat tip to
Orac.)
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