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06/06/2026

Here's some more B-Roll from yesterday's video on a former saloon on St. Aubin that was shut down during prohibition and has been standing tall for 70 years while the neighborhood around it crumbled and became more industrial. Check out the video: https://youtu.be/18HIIS12Gxs

06/05/2026

This week's video is on a former saloon building on St. Aubin. By 1909, the structure was operating as a bar that was later shut down by police for serving alcohol during prohibition. Today, much of the surrounding neighborhood has been demolished. Check out this week's video: https://youtu.be/18HIIS12Gxs

05/29/2026

This week’s video is on the Fairview Savings Bank building at Mack and Cadillac in Detroit. Built in 1911, the structure later became a church and school. Today, despite a large hole in the roof, it remains one of the last surviving links to the former Village of Fairview. youtu.be/WVFThxGqHeE

05/22/2026

Built in 1927, Dexter Recreation and Market Center was more than a bowling alley. The building housed billiards, markets, restaurants, offices, and other businesses under one roof on Dexter Boulevard, but today it is vacant. Check it out: https://youtu.be/S8tIvC7Tje0

05/15/2026

Last weekend, the structure at the corner of Fort and Scotten received an emergency demolition notice from the City of Detroit. Originally a pharmacy and used as a party store for decades, it was last used as the Old Nasty Yacht Club, a moped club. Soon, it'll be gone. Check out this week's video: https://youtu.be/dUKY74sFwQA

05/08/2026

In 2003, items found inside this building led to two square blocks being evacuated and a portion of Gratiot Avenue being shut down. Before that, it was a furniture store, a home entertainment business, and a laboratory. Check out this week's video to learn the history of the Engel Bros. Furniture Building, including the evacuation in 2003: https://youtu.be/xTYQyF74EBI

05/01/2026

This week's video is on a former bank-turned-church on Mack Avenue, one of the last buildings standing on this stretch of the thoroughfare. Built in 1920 and designed by Louis Kamper, it has outlasted nearly everything around it. Check it out: https://youtu.be/_kF1Q8bLri0

04/24/2026

This week's video is on the surprisingly ornate Marathon Linen Plant, a former industrial laundry facility on the east side that's on the brink. Check it out: https://youtu.be/C_SySiu5N7k

04/18/2026

As someone planting roots in the neighborhood just south of here, this before-and-after makes me sick. I understand that times were tough when some of these decisions were made, but it's hard to imagine ever deciding to carve a massive highway through a walkable community, spend hundreds of millions to implode an entire neighborhood and sell it to GM for next to nothing, and isolate a historic cemetery to visits just twice per year. To this day, Factory ZERO (the Poletown Plant) creates a dead zone that makes it harder for Detroiters and Hamtramck citizens to get around. It might not happen in my lifetime, but I don't know that the wound can heal until the plant is gone.

What sticks out to you on this map?

Check out my video on Beth Olem, which is where this map came from: https://youtu.be/NgztjJIOvuY

04/17/2026

Beth Olem, on the Detroit/Hamtramck border, is only open to the public twice a year. Not by choice, but because it’s enclosed within an active GM factory. Here’s how that happened, and why it still matters today: https://youtu.be/NgztjJIOvuY

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