The Michigan Theatre Detroit

i was just here today... looked exatly the same.... great video!

I saw Badfinger and the New York Dolls (not all the same night) at The Michigan Theatre around 1970ish.

Saw many concerts back in the mid 70's. Rush and Kiss together, Ted Nugent and battle of the bands with Cactus. BOC. Anyone else?

It may be sad to see such a beautiful building turned into a parking garage, but what choice to they have?
If they couldn't pay the upkeep by using it as a theatre, there was no other use for it.

From the looks of this video, this old theatre is now pretty much an abandoned building where people are allowed to park in. How depressing.

i agree.. at least they turned it into sumthing usefull and not jus destroy it like they wont to do to michigan central station =[

at lest wen ppl park there cars they can still see the amazing architecture and it can always bring the memories back alive

As a Detroiter, this hits all too close to home. I love historic buildings mainly because we will NEVER build structures as beautiful as this again. I am sure the train station off Michigan avenue will soon meet a similar fate. How sad indeed.

This is absolutely heartbreaking. Seems like taken right out of an armageddon movie. It is a sad display of our indifference towards the nostalgic and historical. We're losing our souls with every structured that we pillage (sorry, "repurpose") for money.

I'm from Miami and many of our historical structures have been demolished to make way for shiny new condos. Although I welcome progress, I hate that it's at the cost of the architecture that made us glorious in the first place.

Great video!

I am a contractor that has worked in this building MANY, MANY times in the last 10 years. I have been through every part of this building and there is much more than what you see here.....it is very sad indeed to see such an impressive devastation.

This is such a sad display of what people do for money. What a waste! Detroit has some gems, but this just shows that its people have completely lost faith in what makes the city so wonderful!