Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Historic and Modern sights

Just decided to post a few pictures today with some history and insight This is the side of the old Park Avenue Building downtown. It was built in the Beaux Arts style (via Wikipedia) and Albert Kahn was the architect (via Emporis.com)
This was on an abandoned building downtown These cats, along with other characters designed like this, are scattered about downtown. I like this "Noe" cat. It reminds me of the Lolcat style that was really popular at one time.
These ads are downtown on Gratiot. These ads change every so often. The MGM ad sometimes has an ad for Greektown or Motor City Casino as well. The two Droid ads on the David Broderick Tower and on the Billboard on Gratiot tout that Droid does what other phones can't. Metro PCS has a number of ads around town with the "$40 on the Nose", "Sweet Holy Moly" and other sayings of the sort. W
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