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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2940
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:15 pm: |    |
Haha, it does! It just needs the Manhattan Express winding through it. A testament to the fact that new buildings always kinda look "fake". |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 135
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:24 pm: | |
had a little trouble uploading ...
big changes afoot. Seems like the whole city is on the bandwagon.
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Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2942
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:31 pm: | |
Wow jjaba must have thrown down some serious money to get naming rights to Ford Field. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2943
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:40 pm: | |
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Paulc
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Username: Paulc
Post Number: 151
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:45 pm: | |
LMFAO!  Nice work. |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1756
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:48 pm: | |
LOL @ how she's become such a celebrity from this... |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 136
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:49 pm: | |
LMAO, oh yeah, she's hot, she needs some horns. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10387
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:52 pm: | |
I just wish I could see her toes so I could make a decision if they are nice or if the guy that commented was crazy.
I think she mentioned her toes to gloss over the fact that she really has devil hooves.
(Message edited by jt1 on October 04, 2007) |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1757
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:52 pm: | |
On second glance, she does look kind of sinister... |
Danindc
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Username: Danindc
Post Number: 3422
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 3:55 pm: | |
After reading her article, I've decided she's not Satan--just not so intelligent. Maybe that's why she writes for a rag like the Dispatch? |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 2733
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 4:11 pm: | |
i'm trying to picture that BoA tower across from bryant park. I don't think I like the idea of it, too imposing a structure right next to a nicely scaled oasis |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1758
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 4:27 pm: | |
^Who looks up that far anyway? |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 140
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 9:30 pm: | |
Rb336, I'm not too sure what you're talking about. |
Quinn
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Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1491
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 10:58 pm: | |
Who's amy saunders?
RB336 you can visit the architect's website here http://cookplusfox.com/
I have to say I'd usually agree with you, but take a look below. It's merely a "moth" amongst bohe"moths." This makes me kinda sad for Detroit...I don't think we have any buildings as tall as any in these pics.
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Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 186
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 11:06 pm: | |
We probably would have had several buildings as tall as the ones in the pics if it wasn't for the Great Depression. The Peak of Downtown's Skyscraper Boom was interrupted by it. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4190
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 11:17 pm: | |
Detroit's peak was in 1928--a year before the onset of the Great Depression. There were obviously other factors in play then other than the depression. |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 261
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 11:21 pm: | |
Money centers, NY, Chicago stole that distinction.
Detroit was the start of the run on the banks in 02/14/1933. The Fed didn't want to back up Ford's loan to Guardian bank and Detroit Bankers Co.
This was the massive start of the run on banks Fed. Reserve was to anal retentive to back up the deposits in the banks! Well we showed them.
So here we are, gone full circle almost.
(Message edited by lefty2 on October 04, 2007) |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 187
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 12:16 am: | |
"Detroit's peak was in 1928--a year before the onset of the Great Depression. There were obviously other factors in play then other than the depression."
Not true, because Book Tower, the Fisher Building Project (2 or 3 additional towers), and other larger skyscrapers were planned to be built after the Depression surprised everyone. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 188
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 12:17 am: | |
About time Detroit finally did recover (after World War II), people were investing more into the Suburban life than anything. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4191
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 1:11 am: | |
I read somewhere? that the other tower and building construction was halted prior to Great Depression,usually attributed to beginning on Black Tuesday October 29,1929. Somehow, supposedly the money was already tight before the first tower was done around November 1928. So, the construction of the other buildings was halted about a year before the stock-market crash.
The Great Depression then effectively killed that halted project for good. Maybe, somebody knowledgeable of Detroit's economy may chime in. For example, there was at least one local recession that killed the Rickenbacker Motor Company on Cabot Street in 1925. |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1761
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 8:02 am: | |
This makes me kinda sad for Detroit...I don't think we have any buildings as tall as any in these pics.
Actually, the Ren Cen is as tall or taller than most buildings in that area. But other than that... Yeah.
Money centers, NY, Chicago stole that distinction.
Wasn't there a mayor or governor or something who was against putting an exchange in Michigan? |
Gsgeorge
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Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 221
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 2:13 pm: | |
love the Amy Saunders references... I was falling out of my chair laughing.
PS - Bank of America should do a little something like this downtown. That's the new Signature Tower in Nashville. HOTT |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 417
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 3:04 pm: | |
Hey, those pictures of the new BofA look a lot like Downtown Troy. I think I even see the Monarch and the Citgo Station in there. |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1766
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 3:15 pm: | |
PS - Bank of America should do a little something like this downtown. That's the new Signature Tower in Nashville. HOTT
Looks a bit... phallus-like, lol. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4203
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 7:57 am: | |
So, this now is the featured Move to Detroit thread on DY for the fall--after the QL mega-thread fizzled? Let's get those cards and letters coming in, folks, and pump up your post/thread counters in the process. And Lowell will like the added activity as it's good for business, and that's good.
Be advised that banks are rather conservative and will drop excess personnel whenever their usefulness runs out, especially when banks merge or take over others. Banks are notorious at downsizing. They invented the concept. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 150
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 8:06 am: | |
LY-
I think most folks realize that this "wishing" is just like Fantasy Football, but with buildings. |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 269
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 4:26 pm: | |
gnome, a little obsessed with amy? a lot of time spent there.... |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5472
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 5:31 pm: | |
LY probably never had SimCity (or LEGO for that matter)...
So his fantasies lie elsewhere... |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 152
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 7:51 pm: | |
Lefty2-
Oh, I think the whole Amy and the BOA things are funny, so I tried to inject a bit of mirth into the threads.
Also, I did write Amy, and yes she did write back. She is montoring DY so my picture posts are really aimed at her and hoping she doesn't mind having her leg pulled a tad. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4212
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 06, 2007 - 8:13 pm: | |
quote:LY probably never had SimCity (or LEGO for that matter)... Actually, I first mentioned a couple years back that many of the DY pipe dreamers were into RPG--SimCity--especially those who never seem to get their train sets for Christmas and would prefer that the strapped taxpayers supply bigger versions for them to play with. |
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