Posted July 28, 201113 yr The fourth and final part of my summer Detroit trip includes more shots from my hotel room on the 64th floor of the Marriott Renaissance Center and then takes me to an unfamiliar place, New Center and a familiar place in Midtown. I visited the Motown Museum (great place and a MUST for Detroit visitors and music fans), Fisher Building, cadillac Place, and did some bowling before coming back downtown, caught a bicycle race, ate supper, and caught "Ernie" the play at City Theatre about Ernie Harwell. An absolutely fantastic PLAY for any Tigers or baseball fan. Here is Part 4 of my weekend vacation in Detroit. Yes, I said VACATION IN DETROIT! Night shots from the 64th floor of the RenCen In the distance on the right, there were fireworks! Fotgive the repetitiveness of these shots, I was playing with my camera... Saturday Morning in downtown Detroit... People Mover, not in service... I thought Cass Tech was torn down... Midtown and New Center... My view from the room... Looking up from the atrium of the RenCen... These atriums are a signature of John Portman-designed buildings... GM World Car Exhibit below... Ate at 42 Degrees North restaurant, good breakfast and has the best views of Windsor and the Detroit River you'll get anywhere! After a fine breakfast, waited for the People Mover... Stopped at Michigan and got a shot of the Book-Cadillac and Holiday Inn Express... Took a cab afterwards to Hitsville, U.S.A., the place where Berry Gordy founded MOTOWN and homw of the MOTOWN MUSEUM! Second house of the museum... btw, I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside, but that's understandable... MOTOWN Michigan plaque... Homes on Woodrow Wilson... Homes across the street on Grand Boulevard... A lot of homes in the Grand Blvd and New Center area are used for businesses... Henry Ford Hospital... [img}http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/283068_10150727841380002_744720001_19654383_3337436_n.jpg[/img]http://Two churches across from Henry Ford Hospital... The handsome art deco Albert Kahn-designed Fisher Building... Inside the Fisher Building... Fisher Theatre entrance... Buffalo City Hall may have met its match... Looking up @ the side of Cadillac Place... Cadillac Place... Entrance to Cadillac Place... Inside the Cadillac Building... A replica model of one of the first Cadillacs manufactured here... Back outside, another look at New Center... Building near Woodward converted to lofts near Techtown of WSU... Another WSU Building... Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church Apartments and townhouses along Woodward, south of I-94... Detroit Historical Museum... Maccabees Building, Wayne State University... Historic First Congregational Church The Amazing David Whitney House... Then stopped by the Garden Bowl, to do a bit of bowling... Bowled my best ever game, 185! I should come here more often for bowling! This is the oldest continually used bowling alley in the U.S. Professional Plaza Looking up at St. John's Church, south of I=75 in Foxtown, on Woodward Foxtown, Fox Theatre and Hockeytown Cafe/City Theatre... Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers... Statue in Grand Circus Park... While I was walking, I noticed the Criterium Detroit City Bike race was going on and decided to watch, heck I got free Powerade as well! It was a corporate sponsored event by the Boll Family YMCA to bring people downtown and drew about 2,000 people downtown to watch this event, including me! These guys were fast and created a nice breeze for me everytime they passed! A pack way out ahead... This was an hour-long race, I was there for over half of it... These guys pulled ahead of the pack for quite some time, before the pack eventually caught up with them near the end of the race... The winner of the Criterium Detroit City race... Everybody cheered and clapped the effort all these great athletes give... Hope you all enjoyed! The MOTOR CITY ROCKS!
July 28, 201113 yr Awesome! You sure get around the Great Lakes. That bike race looks like a fantastic Saturday downtown event. If there aren't going to be a lot of cars using the roads, why not hand them over for a bike race?
July 30, 201113 yr Really dig those morning shots. BTW, the people mover I think was out of service because of the wall collapse at the Whitney building. A 12' x 100' section of the building came down, some of it hitting the people mover tracks
August 2, 201113 yr Great Motown series! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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