tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75824285564143896192024-03-01T13:59:20.293-05:00prior to beforeddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-90591584242538165172019-01-05T23:02:00.004-05:002019-01-08T11:18:34.520-05:00I moved to Tennessee<div style="text-align: center;">
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ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-60886166532151691362014-07-16T13:29:00.000-04:002014-07-16T13:29:15.694-04:00Abandoned Quarter Car Wash in Detroit 48223An abandoned quarter car wash on 5 Mile (Fenkell) in Detroit's west side (Brightmoor).<br />
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-10917677236421496212014-06-22T13:48:00.002-04:002014-06-22T14:10:19.284-04:00Parkview Memorial Cemetery entrance in Livonia, MI 48154I've driven by this entrance to the Parkview Memorial Cemetery on 5 Mile in Livonia 48154 so many times, I finally pulled over to take a couple pics.<br />
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ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-90139616261456254292014-06-21T20:56:00.002-04:002014-06-22T14:11:42.928-04:00Newburgh Lake in Livonia 48150<span style="font-family: inherit;">A couple photos taken from a stop along Edward N. Hines Drive in Livonia, MI 48150 showing Newburgh Lake.</span><br />
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ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-90759588405466945082014-01-17T09:48:00.000-05:002014-06-21T20:55:21.159-04:00Din and Cocktails<span style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">An old sign on 6 Mile (McNichols) and Woodbine on the extreme west side of Detroit, MI 48219.</span></span><br />
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ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-51853829942274159772014-01-16T11:42:00.001-05:002014-06-21T20:55:41.769-04:00West-side Detroit Lighthouse<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">This building was most recently the Christian Harmony Full Gospel Church, years ago I think it was the Lighthouse Restaurant or something like that but now it's an abandoned building on 6 Mile (McNichols) and Woodbine, 1 block west of Telegraph in Detroit, MI 48219.</span><br />
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-11460638477204249492014-01-07T04:20:00.003-05:002014-01-07T04:20:32.016-05:00Bicycles at Ray's PlaceI was down in Monroe and took a couple photos of the bicycles in the front windows of Ray's Place on W Front Street, Monroe, MI 48161<br />
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Seems like I see GASM everywhere I go in Detroit.</div>
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-91845564462273350352014-01-04T10:25:00.001-05:002014-01-04T10:25:53.357-05:00At the bottom of Southfield RoadIf you drive Southfield Fwy going south and take that big left turn after the freeway turns into Southfield Rd and continue on until it dead ends at Jefferson Ave at the <a href="https://plus.google.com/105972739699187341784/about?gl=us&hl=en">Grand Port Cafe</a> and drive behind to the parking lot, you'll be where I took these two photos.<br />
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Detroit River walkway in Ecorse, MI 48229</div>
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Mud Island in the Detroit River</div>
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from north of I-75 looking back at Comerica Park and downtown Detroit</div>
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two homes sitting quietly together</div>
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the Fox Theater on Woodward Ave</div>
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-7527223414836133052014-01-02T09:33:00.001-05:002014-01-02T09:37:11.016-05:00Standing on a frozen lakeI haven't stood on a frozen lake in many years but here I was the other day, with my camera and tripod, standing on a frozen Walled Lake.<br />
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It snowed most of the day but I did get out to take this photo.<br />
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ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-85827190356853519572013-12-31T20:23:00.000-05:002013-12-31T20:45:31.056-05:00Somebody left a light onThere's a saying that's been around since the '70s: "Would the last person to leave Detroit, turn out the lights."<br />
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I grew up in the square mile that was 6 Mile (McNichols) on the North, 5 Mile (Fenkell) on the South, Southfield Fwy on the West, and Greenfield Rd on the East. It got a bit larger as I got older with Cerveny Jr. High and Cooley High School going East. The Henry Chaney branch of the Detroit Public Library on Grand River Ave, across the street from St. Mary's going South and North Rosedale Park on the other side of the Southfield Fwy.<br />
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White flight hit that neighborhood in the early '70s, only a few years after the riots, and it's still trying to recover, over 40 years later. I go back there occasionally to look around.<br />
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This abandoned house sits close to where I live now. It's in a small neighborhood far worse than any I've seen, though I imagine there are equals elsewhere in the city. It's boundaries are Puritan (north), 5 Mile (south), Telegraph (west), Lahser Rd (east). There are entire blocks of abandoned, boarded up, burned-out houses.<br />
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But take a close look at the photo. In the lower right corner, that round circle of white... that's a light shining on the side of a house on the next block. People still live around there and somebody left a light on.<br />
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I don't have any hope that Detroit will someday come back. I don't think it ever will, at least not the way it was. Detroiters will have to reinvent themselves and the city we all still love.<br />
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Right now I drive around Detroit taking photos and like the graffiti and street art I photograph, Detroit is a blank canvas waiting for its residents to paint their future.<br />
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-62634591266783186342013-12-28T09:49:00.000-05:002013-12-28T10:05:49.296-05:00Marathon's Detroit RefineryOn Christmas day, I was driving to downtown by way of Fort St. and I ran across Marathon's Detroit Refinery <span style="background-color: #ffffd3; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">at 1300 S. Fort St, Detroit, MI 48217. I thought it would make some good HDR photos and it did. The first two are from the Fort Street side.</span><br />
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So I'm out and about the other day and I'm looking around and taking pics on some train tracks which are about 30 feet above street level and I see some hollowed-out abandoned buildings with tagging and artwork on the inside walls so I drive around and this is what I found:<br />
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<br />ddatch54http://www.blogger.com/profile/08942920992749633981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7582428556414389619.post-4167993402681424222013-12-12T17:33:00.002-05:002014-01-05T10:11:27.096-05:00Tagging and street art in Detroit 48202 - Part 2<br />
Here's some more of the photos I took after a morning at the VA Hospital in Detroit.<br />
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I went up to the train tracks to have a better look around. They are about 30 or so feet above street level.<br />
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So I walk across the tracks and see this (next two pics)... a couple hollowed out buildings with some brightly-colored street art on the inside.<br />
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And I had to get back across the tracks before this rolling train cut me off from my car.<br />
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My next couple posts will be what I saw in the hollowed-out buildings on the other side of the train tracks.<br />
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This is the sign outside the <a href="http://www.tangentgallery.com/">Tangent Gallery and Hastings Street Ballroom</a>.</div>
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