UPDATE: It's April 16, 2006 as we visit the empty streets of Downtown Pontiac where the elegant Strand Theater sits vacant and boarded up. Downtown Pontiac, filled with beautiful architecture, faced, and still does, an uncertain future.



On This Date In Detroit History - DetroitYES 25th Anniversary Flashbacks

As the Discuss Detroit forum enters its 25th year, I thought I would start this thread to occasionally flash back to pictures, memories, and events that occurred on the current date in the history of Detroit-Windsor family of communities across the past 25 years. Below is my first for today Jan. 7. Please add your pictures, memories and thoughts below. And beyond the 25 years if desired.

Jan. 7, 2012. As the moon rises in the east, the empty ruin of the AAA Building sits amid the bleak mud lot of the former Statler Hotel. Beyond it lies the fading Whitney Building and, topping it, new windows of the being-renovated Broderick Tower can be seen although the upper floors are still boarded up. To the left the restaurant floor topping the Detroit Athletic club is yet to be added. To the right, the tower of the Metropolitan Building continues to decay. Behind it the recently-constructed Greektown Casino Hotel can be seen.