This one, particularly the excellent video, really pulled at my heartstrings inasmuch as Michigan is in a depression with over 12.% of it's population unemployed, and it seems so wasteful to let such an irreplaceable building succumb to the wrecking ball. What struck me was how a building can represent more than bricks and mortar. In Chicago, we had a belated recognition that some of our most magnificent buildings like the Garrick Theater were lost due to progress ( read parking lots )..then there's the much lamented, lost Pennsylvania Station in New York...this one is still in play as to it's ultimate fate..while I seriously doubt that it will be saved for pragmatic reasons but then again today's pragmatism can be tomorrow's regret. This one really flew under my radar, perhaps it has yours as well... the commentary on the video stating that this is the Detroit's equivalent of "our Ellis Island" struck home. Sadly,even Detroit's Free Press itself,that published this fine reporting is endangered.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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