 
Harsensis
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Username: Harsensis
Post Number: 60
Registered: 07-2005
Posted From: 71.227.102.82
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 2:07 pm: |    |
My dad bought this at an estate a few years ago, and I finally got around to taking a picture of it, but it is a futuristic drawing of Belle Isle that was done in 1976 during the Bicentennial |
E_hemingway
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Post Number: 786
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 69.242.215.8
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 2:09 pm: | |
Ohhh... Wow... |
Gistok
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Post Number: 2336
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 4.229.3.71
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 2:31 pm: | |
Wow, very futuristic. This bicentennial design reminded me of an earlier one done for the Detroit Bicentennial of 1901.
In 1900 New York's famous Stanford White (of McKim Mead & White architectural firm) designed a magnificent 1,500 ft. long colonnade and column for the same Scott Fountain site (15 years before Scott Fountain was built). It looked something like Bernini's famous colonnade around St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, with a centerpiece marked by a 220 ft. tall column, similar to the Perry Monument in Put-In-Bay in Lake Erie.
This grandioise scheme, which never got proper funding, is shown on Plate 245 of the (1980) W. Hawkins Ferry THE BUILDINGS OF DETROIT book. |
56packman
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Post Number: 413
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 129.9.163.234
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 2:36 pm: | |
Boy, I wish we still had some of that good red bud from back in '76. They must have smoked a few lids of that. It's bad enough that they made new fucked up architechure then, but they sure liked jacking with things that were better off left alone and maintained. |
Livedog2
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Post Number: 473
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Posted From: 24.223.133.177
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 2:43 pm: | |
Here ya go, Gistok!
Livedog2 |
Eastsidedog
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Post Number: 556
Registered: 03-2006
Posted From: 12.47.224.8
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 3:13 pm: | |
Wow. Awesome. Thanks for sharing!  |
Danny
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Post Number: 4382
Registered: 02-2004
Posted From: 198.111.166.19
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 5:02 pm: | |
Kinda reminds me of Logan's Run. |
Eastsidedog
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Post Number: 559
Registered: 03-2006
Posted From: 12.47.224.8
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 5:11 pm: | |
Looks like they modernized the Casino "just a bit." |
Detroit313
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Post Number: 88
Registered: 02-2006
Posted From: 72.229.136.103
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 5:21 pm: | |
I like the 1900 design more. What's up with the string of pearls above Scott Fountain in the 1976 photo? That's kinda scary! 313 |
Gistok
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Post Number: 2337
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Posted From: 4.229.72.203
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 7:32 pm: | |
Thanks Livedog2!
Wouldn't Belle Isle have made an excellent World's Fair site?? |
Kilgore_south
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Post Number: 105
Registered: 05-2005
Posted From: 12.191.129.2
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 8:47 am: | |
WOW am I glad they didn't actually do that plan. lol @ 56packman...
Kinda reminds me of the New York State Pavilion from the '64 World's Fair in NYC. Pieces of it (see below) are still sitting there rottting away in Queens. Belle Isle would probably look the same or worse today if the '76 plan had been adopted.
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Rbdetsport
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Post Number: 123
Registered: 11-2005
Posted From: 68.61.11.146
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 9:17 am: | |
That older building looks excactly like Perry's Monument in Put-in-Bay. |
Harsensis
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Post Number: 61
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Posted From: 71.227.102.82
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 8:59 pm: | |
"Kinda reminds me of Logan's Run."
Danny, it is funny that yousaid that. I remember watching a tv movie when I was a kid that had people living in a dome with a big eye at the top that was always watching them. A group of people were trying to dig out without being caught by the eye. I asked in a few sci fi blogs if anybody knew the name of it, and most said I don't know, but it sounds like Logans Run. Anybody in here know what the name is of the described TV Movie? |