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A large dining area was located along the side of the first floor; the structural supports may be the product of Amtrak's restoration work in the 1970s.
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Do you mean that those supports may have just been left out there in the open for the remainder of the time that the station was in operation?
Dylan
Tue 12-08-2009
Too little too late
eldokid@aol.com
Tue 12-08-2009
possibly a dropped ceiling?
Ferdy
Tue 12-08-2009
Could never figure out why they would cover such architecture with an ugly dropped ceiling...those arches are really something!
TootUncommon
Tue 12-08-2009
Looks as if they've lowered the ceiling at one stage
cos of the railing, and its now all over the floor.
Matt
Wed 12-09-2009
Another Brutalist 70's renovation...
Binky
Wed 12-09-2009
At least Amtrak didn't put that fake wood stuff all over...
Binky
Wed 12-09-2009
I love those arches! And serioulsy, what is with the drop ceilings? WHY would you cover the arches?
Kathy W.
Wed 12-09-2009
The "remuddling" efforts were done to modernize the station to the style of the times. By the 70s, however, the writing was on the wall for passenger rail. The workers that arrived through this station manufactured the personal transportation that replaced it. Ram-trak can now only operate with large gov subsidies.
autoguy
Sun 12-13-2009
why do the little morons spray paint everything???
Joe
Tue 12-15-2009
because litle morons have little minds
wanderer
Fri 12-18-2009
beautiful
turbochrissie
Sun 12-20-2009
DESTROYED!!
amazed
Tue 12-22-2009
MCS has been used a lot lately for filming movies. In 07-08 when they put the huge fence surrounding the building, they added beams and whatnot for other possible uses of the building.
Jolene
Fri 01-22-2010
And, we're not morons, we paint because we try to enhance the already bleak and ugly in Detroit. There are a lot of masterpieces throughout the city that go hand in hand with your urban exploration.
Jolene
Fri 01-22-2010
Its a shame that in the 70s Amtrak spent so much money to restore this place and 10 years later it gets abandoned and left too rot.
Ozzy
Fri 02-12-2010

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