Thousands turn out to catch glimpse of Detroit train depot
Source: Detroit News
They came. They saw. They took photos, a lot of photos.
Like the days of yore, Michigan Central Depot teemed with people Friday, the first day of an open house that will now last through Monday as part of Ford Motor Co.'s public celebration of its recent building purchase.
Hundreds of people milled about the long-closed train depot. Hundreds of others waited several hours in line. In all, 4,000 people attended the unveiling.
Amid the chipped bricks and graffiti-spewing walls, the heavy turnout coupled with Fords plans to make it part of a corporate campus conjured images of an aging behemoth rumbling back to life. Sound familiar, Detroit? . . .
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2018/06/22/thousands-train-depot-opening-day/727069002/
Love my hometown. What a sense of history!
LisaM
(27,863 posts)I love the stories of people returning artifacts from the old depot....I am calling them caretakers.
elmac
(4,642 posts)Ford is my favorite car company, and the only US car company that wasn't bailed out by tax payer money.
rockfordfile
(8,712 posts)Never owned a ford and never cared to.
elmac
(4,642 posts)demmiblue
(36,920 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)God I miss Detroit.
BumRushDaShow
(130,139 posts)People may call our cities "Rust belts" but all you need to do is scrape off that rust and you will find shiny new steel underneath. They don't make buildings like that anymore - just some metal frames with some type of simulated masonry "facing" and dry wall inside.
Bengus81
(6,941 posts)KC has a beautiful station and even down here in Wichita. Like the others neglected and then restored. Take a look at the history of early airports in larger cities,same kind of building to emulate a train station.
msongs
(67,509 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,387 posts)Well, maybe a little more than half a century ago.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,780 posts)Takket
(21,728 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)I love old train depots. So much a part of our history.