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Brewster Projects
These Brush Park housing projects were home to many notable people including Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson. They were also the inspiration for the claymation series “The PJ’s”. I had my reservations about visiting the Brewster projects and the drive through the neighborhood up to them did little to allay my fears.
Packard Plant – Trip 3
I remember this as The Trip Where I Finally Got Up The Nerve To Bring My 5DMKII. I had been dancing around bringing my main camera to Detroit given the potential for theft, the potential for loss during inevitable partying, having to lug the heavy kit all over the city, etc. I scheduled all the…
C.F. Smith
C.F. Smith was a grocery chain in the Detroit area that operated from 1910 into the 1950s. The buildings we explored were clearly a warehouse set up to store items for the chain. As with so many buildings like this, they had clearly seen a number of uses over the years before finally falling in…
Haartz-Mason
Haartz Mason in Watertown, MA manufactured three ply rubberized convertible top fabric and closed in the mid 1980s. There was not much left behind except some tasty graffiti.
Willard Elementary School
My friend and I took a bit of a side-trip without the locals to check out Willard Elementary School a.k.a. Highland Park Bright Center for Adult Education. Detailed history is available at Nailhed’s site so I won’t try to recreate it here. You never know what you will get with abandoned buildings. I wasn’t expecting…
Fort Wayne
A good friend of mine worked at Fort Wayne, so naturally we wanted to swing by to visit the historic fort when we were out in Detroit.