You Have to Watch the Detroit Local News for a Few Laughs (VIDEO)

Posted in VIDEO       21 Jan 2016       4241
You Have to Watch the Detroit Local News for a Few Laughs
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What Life Is Like for the People of Detroit (32 pics)

Posted in PICDUMPS       9 Jan 2015       11322

Detroit is a city that is in $15 billion worth of debt and is considered the criminal capital of the United States. This is what life looks like for the people that live in the outskirts of the city.

 

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Detroit Pistons Usher vs Young Dancing Fan - Round 2

Posted in VIDEO       5 Dec 2013       3210

Remember this hilarious dance-off video?

Well, both the kid and the stadium usher got invited on the Jimmy Kimmel show, so prepare yourself for some more epic dancing moves.

 

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A Glimpse of the Past (9 pics)

Posted in       11 Dec 2012       6120

These haunting photos juxtapose the past and present of this now abandoned Detroit school.

 

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Abandoned Landmarks of Detroit (35 pics)

Posted in       22 Sep 2012       19045
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The Ruins of Once Famous Automobile Capital (25 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       27 Dec 2010       18969

In the late 19 century, Detroit had its own industrial revolution. Strategically located along the Great Lakes waterway, Detroit emerged as a transportation hub. In 1896, a thriving carriage trade prompted Henry Ford to build his first automobile in a rented workshop on Mack Avenue.
In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company and in 1913, Ford implemented a large-scale assembly line to manufacture the Model T automobile at his Highland Park plant. 
Detroit was even referred to as the Paris of the West for its architecture, and for Washington Boulevard, recently electrified by Thomas Edison.Ford's manufacturing—and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, the Dodge brothers, Packard, and Walter Chrysler—reinforced Detroit's status as the world's automotive capital.

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Detroit Ruins (12 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       19 Jul 2010       15688

Burned houses and ruins make about 40 % of the city of Detroit. There are over 33,000 unused or abandoned buildings here right now. Dave Bing, the Mayor of Detroit, is planning to demolish about 10,000 homes in the next three years. He got the money from the Federal Budget for this purpose. Actually, the economical level of life in this American city is not very high. The unemployment rate here is 50 %, according to Mr. Bing, while this number is approximately 10 % across the USA.

 

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City of Detroit – the way it is (59 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       10 Aug 2009       14204
Seven photographers were making the photo-project about Detroit for 5 years.
The whole 5 years they were taking pictures that show the evolving of the city.
Especially nowadays when not many people are satisfied of what Detroit is.
The pictures aim to uncover the city, not what it has been before or what it should be today, but simply the way it is.
Here are the names of photographers who took part in this project: Corine Vermeulen-Smith,
Mitch Cope, Clinton Snider, Mark Alor Powell, Antonio Gomez, Ingo Vetter, Scott Hocking.


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