Thanks lingramid... here's what was ripped down to build that monstrosity... it gives us a glimpse of the colorful nature of the slightly larger Detroit UA before it was left to the elements...Yes - both the United Artists which was in perfectly usable shape, and the other smaller Roosevelt Theatre [[directly across from the main entrance of Marshall Field's). Both are sickening to think they are gone, those theatres would be in use by now as Broadway houses just like the Palace and Oriental and the other storefronts would have been redeveloped as retail - without tearing anything down and putting an awful mall there which is 80% vacant.
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