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Abandoned Detroit Skyscraper - Jazz Raers?

RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
edited January 2013 in Strut Central
What building is this?





Jewels abound!

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  • mumbosaucemumbosauce 480 Posts
    thats prettty dope.
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,244 Posts
    "the heck is this thing? Drum, I guess."

    is everything in Detroit just there for the taking?

    I was gonna say maybe they're in that old train station, but every picture I've seen of that building suggests there aren't other tall buildings that close to it. Plus I'm sure there's more than one famous abandoned building in that city.
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    The plague at :49 might answer the mystery of what offices those used to be, but its just out of focus.
  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    The building apparently is The Book Tower in Detroit. I'd be curious what offices they are going through. Verve?
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    ppadilha said:
    "the heck is this thing? Drum, I guess."

    Haha, that stood out to me too - how can you not know what a drum looks like? Then he calls the organ a piano.

    But man, that's post-apocalypse stuff for sure.
  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    RAJ said:
    The building apparently is The Book Tower in Detroit. I'd be curious what offices they are going through. Verve?

    Seems like it with both Jimmy Smith and Mel Torme. Mel Torme was where he belonged (the floor). Although that Charlie Parker LP was not on Verve.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    ppadilha said:


    is everything in Detroit just there for the taking?

    Yes. It's like Baltimore but on sleepyer heroin.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Could be the office of a promoter or booking agent or radio station.

    b/w

    Does Baltimore have abandoned office buildings? Seems to me downtown commercial district Baltimore doing ok.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    Could be the office of a promoter or booking agent or radio station.

    Yeah, this is much more likely - I doubt Verve even had a Detroit office.
  • GatorToofGatorToof 582 Posts
    Hahaha, the banter at the end.

    You blame me, I'll blame you, and that is the way it goes.
  • tuneuptuneup 586 Posts
    I guessed Booking Agent / Agency myself. Had a very 80s feel to it too.
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