Decaying & saddness

Never thought I could feel real sadness for concrete and a city...but look at poor old Detroit....it was once a grand and beautiful place....how could they let it decay? Thirty-five per cent of the inner city has become uninhabitable. See all pictures and article here

American Hotel, previously the Hotel Fort Wayne Tiger Stadium

Ansonia Hotel was one of the finest in downtown Detroit

The United Artists Theater, opened in 1928, had a Spanish-gothic atmosphere as dramatic as anything onstage. Between 1978 and 1983 the Detroit Symphony used it as a recording studio.
The pressing room at Donovan House, where Motown Records was once based. The label, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy, Jr., in 1959, became known as "Hitsville USA" thanks to artists like Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Jackson Five and Marvin Gaye. The photographers even found documents here signed by Gaye.
The Mayan pyramids of Chichén Itzá were the inspiration for the Vanity Ballroom, which hosted Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway in the '30s and '40s. In the '60s it became (briefly) a rock venue, hosting The Stooges and MC5.