Detroit Urban Exploration Trip – May 2008
Packard Plant – May 2008
At 3,500,000 square feet, the Packard Plant was the titan of abandoned buildings. In an earlier post on this trip to Detroit I talked a little about the culture of private urban exploration forums that arose in the 00s. Our…
Fisher Body #21 – May 2008
Day 3 of my first adventure to Detroit took us to Fisher Body #21, having capped off the previous day at the Roosevelt Warehouse. Located at the intersection of I94 and I75 the building became a well known eyesore for…
Roosevelt Warehouse – May 2008
Roosevelt Warehouse, also known as the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository, is located just across the road from Michigan Central Station which we had just explored. The building was made internationally infamous several years after my visit when Jonnie Redding,…
Michigan Central Station – May 2008
We began the day (and...began drinking) at the Wurlitzer building on the first day of our trip. Our next stop was Michigan Central Station. Detroit's reputation as a dangerous city and the extreme likelihood that we would be drinking heavily…
Rudolph Wurlitzer Company – May 2008
Urban exploration was hot in the 00s. People had certainly been doing it long before then but it felt like there was a confluence of people getting interested in it, digital photography making photography and video production more accessible, and…