Eastown Theatre is demolished in Detroit.
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- The once-venerable Eastown Theatre opened as a neighborhood movie palace in 1931 and later became a venue for rock music in the late 60s and early 70s. The theater hosted Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Yes, Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, King Crimson and MC5. This video includes a live recording from the Grateful Dead in 1971 at the Eastown Theatre. For more, visit us at www.motorcitymuckraker.com.
I grew up in Detroit and went there when it was actually a movie theatre. Lots of good memories but so sad to see those beautiful old buildings disappear because of neglect. Those buildings cannot ever be replaced. I'm so ashamed of my city that they allowed that to happen to many many beautiful old buildings.
Es una tragedia ! Pero no sientas verguenza, Detroit fue simplemente un peon en los intereses de las grandes corporaciones y los políticos. Admiro a la gente de Detroit, que ante tanta adversidad ha sabido reinventarse y reconstruir sus vidas.
For those of us who have never been there watching urban exploration videos of the inside really puts the space into perspective, what an amazing venue this used to be. Reflects a time when Detroit was in its hayday.
Now even rats leaved.
As a very old Detroiter..., I watched so much of our history demolished, that I have no tears to cry any more. I have also come to realize..., that you can not save them all. Thank God for photos.
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I feel so heart sick when I see something like this happen. Another piece of history demolished and gone forever. What a shame !!!!!!
How very sad to see such beautiful architecture being demolished.
+coweatsman If there are no plan to redevelop the site why demolish the ruins. There are an urban exploration tourist industry and a ruins porn tourist industry which must be worth something to Detroit's economy.
+coweatsman I am even more angry at the owner that let it become so bad!! They neglected it for way too long and also left it open to the elements and all the illegal scrappers to go inside and destroy it. It really upsets me knowing that a building like this will never come again!
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Tourists want to see the ruins. Why else go to Detroit? There's no need to demolish the buildings. Nature will resume them as a free eco service.
It would be nice if the city would be rebuilt with the same architecture that would match previous and current historic buildings.
+AMCNorthstar 93 They can't afford a police and fire department right now. How are they going to spend millions on a theater? At one point about half of the buildings in Detroit were abandoned.
For long time residents of Detroit, this has got to be so unbelievable. I got bad, then it got worse. And its still getting worse.
The owner was a white GP lawyer using it as a tax write off, so your assumptions are wrong.
Using the music recording from that theatre was a good touch. At least that survives.
And then to have the music stop. Very poignant.
I lived in Detroit until 1963, when I joined the Navy. All my family and friends fled for their lives after the 1967 riots. And all those landmarks I knw as a teenager are coming down. Sigh.........
Harry Andruschak end of an era
Saved a few, everything Old is like that costs millions takes huge coordinated efforts
Got to put the Dollar Tree somewhere.
JIHAD
Spent many days and nights there enjoying the music and the wonderful people.
In the 1920s there was more steel being used in Detroit than anywhere else in the world. Not used due to car production, but for all of the new buildings that were rising.
I bet.
That one section of the building in the beginning was more like bending instead of crumbling for most of the moment.
That is why these old treasures are being torn down - for the steel.
In 1963, here in San Francisco, the 1929 5000 seat Fox Theatre was demolished...it was in excellent condition...and was slated to be our symphony hall. Politics and special interests took center stage...gone! This beautiful theatre can be googled under San Francisco Fox for photos/history.
Yes, and replaced with a mid-rise concrete-block apartment building. Sad.
@@clintonflynn815 It [the apartment complex] is a fitting monument...looks exactly like a huge tombstone!
Breaks my heart. Saw the Dead there. Floyd, Delany and Bonnie, Etc. Etc.
mrbeaucastel Herpes! Really bad herpes!
The archway tiles and column tiles would have been nice to have salvaged.
You know, Construction is expensive, and with the gauge, it cost like 500 bucks and hour to salvage those arches and columns. Its just not cost effective.
Would have been better if they didn’t demolish it in the first place.
Kind of awesome hearing the dead and not even searching it.
remember when it was technology. seen DJ hurricane come on with House of Pain Jump Around hundred kids in the ballroom jumping their asses off. also seen dj craze,soulslinger and some of my hometown favorites, dru ruiz and Michelle Herman. always love the architecture from the minute I step foot in there East Town you will not be forgotten you will live in my soul forever!
I played the ballroom in 97, I think it was.
Old buildings like this one , it's one of those videos where I can't watch because it emotionally hurts me 😢😢😢
Sad to see torn down but it was too far gone to save....
Like a lot of things in Detroit . Thats what happens when the wrong people run it .
@@georgefilippello7972 Wrong *colored people run it.
That has to be the most craziest pull down i have ever seen no fencing no stop the traffic just hope for the best
Movies in the late 50s' were .25 to .35 cents per ticket and often included two movies and a cartoon. In the early 60s' I ushered at the Saturday matinees!
Has anyone ever thought about keeping the outer facade and Just building a new inner frame work using metal beams? How hard would it be to just enforce the outer walls ,keep the granduer of the old style archie and new construction inside?
they did that with the White House. It could be done but it is very costly
@@johngreen3543True.
That idea was tried for a stretch of old buildings in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Cliff nore version is that they were spared intitialdestruction but a "structural engineer statedthe facades were to fragile to withstand the tower construction process behind them. They were demolished, tower went up, bank occupied it until bought and consolidated by another bank in another tower built slightly earlier. Health care system now occupiedome of the first former bank tower. History lost to dollars and (no common) sense/cents.
Why couldn't it have been restored? Where I grew up, our Coliseum Ballroom was in a blighted area, but they fixed it up anyway.
No money and the building was becoming structurally deficient.
The building was badly damaged by a fire.
Awesome video. This one kept popping into my recommendations. Nice job, great editing and perfect music choice. Thanks.
Peter Brady once sang "When it's time to change, you got to rearrange." sound advice
Sad to see yet another piece of Americana fall to the wrecking ball....the history that place has seen over the years, but on the other hand is was more than likely falling down anyway and a haven for junkies etc, and it is Detroit after all.
Thanks for the video.
Its' sad to see an old building go.
The Globe on Grand River was Built in about 1907 as a Vaudeville Palace. It was X-Rated in it's Final Days. I don't know how it survived the '67 Riots which Raged all around it. It was finally knocked down sometime in the early Eighties, I think.
Grateful Dead as the Soundtrack??
This is so sad to watch!!!! I am even more angry at the owner that neglected this theatre for so long!!! Such a beautiful grand theatre of Detroit has fallen fate to neglect!!
StarXLR man grows up man child
@@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006 ??????
StarXLR nvm
Given the state of the neighborhood I can't picture any need to redevelop the site. I suppose you could get a couple of seats out of a old hippie and and set them up where the pit used to be in front of the stage and hang out, smoke a doobie, and reminisce. I would advise having firearms with you though.
@Bill Williams thanks democrats for destroying a once great city
@@swazeyyy keep partisan politics out of this, man.
@@Turquoise412 I doubt he was wrong. Detroit, in it's heyday, was run by conservatives. Detroit, in its decline, was run by liberals. Same thing happened to San Francisco and San Diego: Republicans made them great cities; Democrats ran them into the ground.
Feel free to upload again so we hear the demolition
Sad part is the new buildings that replace them are nowhere near as nice.
Unfortunately good things don't last forever.
Those guys in the HI Vis jackets look to be standing way too close.
Is there anything still standing in Detroit?
joe Schlotthauer white people ruined it
Fisher building is still downtown
Last person fleeing Detroit please turn off the lights, if any.
Sad that it had be demolished and the idiots in the neighborhood can't take care of a damn thing.
" idiots in the neighborhood" There is no neighborhood anymore.
The owner wouldn’t allow it. He was a Grosse Pointe lawyer that was using it as a tax write off.
@@TexasEmperor When animals move in, it's called a zoo.
Did you get any in the job or did everything land in the street
The twisted columns were salvageable as well as the masonry, but no one has money to save these things.
And obviously there was no plan to salvage all of it's fancy trim :(
BrickToyTrains There was an old Pontiac in the back. They saved the trim from that.
I love the music alot more than the demolition!
Saw Emerson Lake & Palmer there spooky place with lots of dope.
The first time Kraftwerk ever played anywhere in the Midwest. Showcase, 1975.
looks like a fun job how do you get into this
That,s not too far from my old neighborhood.
What's the music - which track from the Grateful Dead??
Dark Star tho Samson and Delilah would been a better song.
The building was in such a state that until he had himself laid. What is now here? 4:10-Such a nice decoration were. Sam Piach.
Excelente video
how could this happen to my happy plce
Denis Orton It was " happy place for lot of us for a moment!, moments come/ moments go.got seat;, its where I sit in my office!, "Motor City Scott"!
The best explanation that I've ever seen is this right here: i.redd.it/utj1y8st0y811.jpg
Safety fence optional in Detroit?
Gone forever...
Si wounded if anyone went in and removed the stage, the wood, the vintage wood t&G. The wood could have been salvage for reclaim to the top bidder.
Steve I think the same thing every time I see a condemned house or building. Doors, Floors, hardware,tin ceiling tiles..all that stuff that is nicer than most stuff today goes to the landfill. I dont get it.
It's real easy to salvage things from buildings, finding a buyer for those items is the hard part
What will be the replacement of that former movie theaters?
Nothing
have you no longfront in usa ????
Jens-Peter Reckling we suck
Did you watch the whole video? There's one of them in there.
awesome, now they can put up something even better.
thumbs down club Not very smart are you
Diversity is our strength.
Very sad to watch, but what can you do? The building had outlived it's use.
No, the owner sabotaged it.
Nobody does demolition like Detroit.
Just imagine how good they would have sounded if they all hadn't been stoned while playing....
There will be many demolished buildings where the Dead played at make a compilation that would be incredibly interesting. Samson and Delilah would been a better fit than Dark Star.
1:45 rip that ladder.
good start
Sad.. movie palace of the past.going down.it probably had a pipe organ in there that sang well.. during intermission..single a longs..
Is there anything left of Detroit?
There's some trees, sidewalks, and a few old churches. That's about it.
Looks like a feeding frenzy of mechanical prehistoric monsters
most of the abandon building in detroit have to go because they are unsafe and have to be torn down
Who would want to live or develop anything in Detroit?
Why don't you show a clip when the job is finished .
How that town got money to demolish that? There is much work to do still.
Very neat floorprint if I got it right.
All that history lost very sad .
Destroying history one building at a time ..sad
Here, we would demand the facade be included in the new structure, but this will only entertain cars.
The American way, tear everything down. Disposable society. My heart aches.
There is literally no interest in these buildings. Its detroit. Most of the city is being torn down and returned to the land.
AND !! LOTS !! MORE !! TRASH !! TOO !!
They could have saved, at least, the stone works around the building.... very sad indeed!!!!
I'm sure it was a lovely building in its day, but for whatever reason, that thing seemed to be in a big hurry to reach the ground. Of course, Jerry sounds to be the same way in this recording, but I'm sure he lasted 20 more years after that.
All gone now... Along with the people....
Niby zabytek, ale to już było próchno.
Not a moment too soon. This old theater crumbled like a nilla wafer in a sauna.
WELL ❗ IT'S GONE ❗
WENT PASS SUNDAY,
OCT,29 2017 🇺🇸
Very sad
6:08 Nice job, operator!!! He manages to bring down most of the building and get out of harm's way all at once!!!
@6:42, lunch time.
Main Cross streets? (Where is Maxwell?) I dnt rmbr this bldg
Everything that is, has a time, and then it doesnt. Just like me.
Why did they even demolished this 20th century theatre? Why didnt they referbish and list it?
Re-develop, Why would they?
sad
So much of that terra cotta moulding could have been saved, sad.
Wow someone must have got a cats tail in the door that horrible squawking
very satisfying
Lucky Notre Dame cathedral was in Paris and not Detroit.
Why do people always want to save these eyesores??? Tear them all down!
JUST !! NUKE !! THE !! PLACE !!
imagine trying to demolish an an entire town of 1 million population
No plans to redevelop the site or Detroit for that matter!
No fence no road closure, lucky no one got injured or worse.
Painful to watch
I'm sure architecture like that took more time to build. But when you take away the sense of pride in what is accomplished, you get square boxes today. Hurry up, get it done and move on to the next one.
derelict bldg; condemned as a 'public hazard'?
Well, that was depressing to watch
it is sad that the city was allowed to come to this most of the structures taken down or that are going to be where lost years ago do to a lack of a clear plan to move the city forward Jerome Cavanagh saw the change on the horizon and attempted to clean up the city and keep it strong as one person put "he tried to drag it kicking and screaming from the brink of collapse" which happened in the 1967 with the riots many cities in America lost industry and turned around and rebuilt I feel if there was proper direction by a mayor and a city council the city would not be in the place it is in now it has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with good leadership I read much about the j.l. Hudson company and how the malls killed it well I feel that Detroit killed Hudson's just as Southfield killed northland mall don't get me wrong there are many good areas of Detroit and some areas that have turned and around and good people in the city who live there and want to see it rise again but the hard fact remains that many areas where buildings have been left to rot for many decades and have to be taken down do to the cost of rebuilding them and there seem to be little to no interest in rebuilding on these property's until a long term clear plan under good leadership can be put together the city will remain a moon scape and if it rises again to what it was in the fifty's something that will take many decades I hope the leaders of the city at that time will not forget what took down the city in the past because another fact is if we do not learn from the past we shall repeat it again and again
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This is what America does. Tears down beautiful buildings which no longer are built.
AND !! BUILDS !! MORE !! WORLD !! TRADE !! CENTRES !! INSTEAD !!OOHH !! AND !! TRUMP !! PLAZAS !!! TOO !!
This is what happens when liberals get into office, they let old buildings go then tear them down for more modern structures which are next to shit.