My family and I haven’t been back since 2018 I grew up in metro Detroit but went downtown Detroit a lot as a kid and been to the casinos hundreds of times glad to see Detroit improving.
I was downtown on Woodward Monday and took seven EXCELLENT pictures of the striking Hudsons Tower with my Kodak DISPOSABLE camera!! I'd been waiting on a landmark structure to be built there since October 24,1998,when I was the LAST person to walk within that Detroit ICON!! I'd exited ten MINUTES before implosion!! And stood 100 feet away when it met its' final fate!! 😮
jayhapaq;I HAVE an I-phone,you lout,but give LESS than a f*ck ABOUT it!! I was happy shoving COINS into the PAYphone at Tireman Avenue@Kentucky street at night!! I happen to LIKE disposable cameras,if you must know!! I JUST bought another one 30 MINUTES ago from Walgreens at Warren@ Schaefer in Dearborn!!😐
jayhpaq;they do the job for me. I have a tremendous picture of the Hudsons' building 30 SECONDS before detonation,one,just seconds AFTER detonation,with the huge grey DUST-CLOUD rocketing towards me,on Library street,and a third while fully enveloped withIN the dust cloud with silhouettes of people standing nearby discernable!! 😮 My best picture,features the red beacon of the Penobscot Building taken 100 feet directly below it from 565 feet above Fort street,on the OPEN-AIR roof of the building at the culmination of a Preservation Wayne downtown Detroit,walking skyscraper tour in April 2001!! The roof is technically the 47th floor,but the highest floor accessible by elevator is the 42nd,so we had to hike up the last five flights of stairs to get up there!! No sweat for me,as since from June 1996,until October 30 1998,I had to hike up 24 flights of un-tiled,hard CONCRETE stairs FIRST thing every morning just to REACH my workstation strapping boxes of copper-tubed explosives to the Hudsons' buildings' support beams!! The contractor didn't even install temporary hydraulic-lifts for the demolition crew to get from floor to floor,as the building had been without elevators since it closed in 1983!! 😶
Waited for this since I stood a mere ONE-hundred feet away from the front entrance at implosion!! The People Mover wasn't even SCRATCHED by the falling of the 439-foot Hudsons' building!! What shut the People Mover down was the itinerant falling of chunks of brown debris falling on the track from the 200 foot pile of rubble looming OVER the track for 6 months!! At implosion the track was UNtouched!! I lost $20.00 bucks to a guy from the demolition company concerning this on October 24th 1998!! 😮
My family and I haven’t been back since 2018 I grew up in metro Detroit but went downtown Detroit a lot as a kid and been to the casinos hundreds of times glad to see Detroit improving.
A year to fix the people mover? The Gordie Howe Bridge behind schedule. Yeah the city needs to prioritize transportation
I thought that the Hudson’s Tower was 57 stories.
Isn’t it called “topped out”???
Detroit, Michigan ❤
I was downtown on Woodward Monday and took seven EXCELLENT pictures of the striking Hudsons Tower with my Kodak DISPOSABLE camera!! I'd been waiting on a landmark structure to be built there since October 24,1998,when I was the LAST person to walk within that Detroit ICON!! I'd exited ten MINUTES before implosion!! And stood 100 feet away when it met its' final fate!! 😮
People still use Kodak DISPOSABLE cameras?? Get a smartphone already, its 2024.
jayhapaq;I HAVE an I-phone,you lout,but give LESS than a f*ck ABOUT it!! I was happy shoving COINS into the PAYphone at Tireman Avenue@Kentucky street at night!! I happen to LIKE disposable cameras,if you must know!! I JUST bought another one 30 MINUTES ago from Walgreens at Warren@ Schaefer in Dearborn!!😐
@@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj I used to use them in the days before smartphones, and they SUCK. Are you kidding me??
jayhpaq;they do the job for me. I have a tremendous picture of the Hudsons' building 30 SECONDS before detonation,one,just seconds AFTER detonation,with the huge grey DUST-CLOUD rocketing towards me,on Library street,and a third while fully enveloped withIN the dust cloud with silhouettes of people standing nearby discernable!! 😮 My best picture,features the red beacon of the Penobscot Building taken 100 feet directly below it from 565 feet above Fort street,on the OPEN-AIR roof of the building at the culmination of a Preservation Wayne downtown Detroit,walking skyscraper tour in April 2001!! The roof is technically the 47th floor,but the highest floor accessible by elevator is the 42nd,so we had to hike up the last five flights of stairs to get up there!! No sweat for me,as since from June 1996,until October 30 1998,I had to hike up 24 flights of un-tiled,hard CONCRETE stairs FIRST thing every morning just to REACH my workstation strapping boxes of copper-tubed explosives to the Hudsons' buildings' support beams!! The contractor didn't even install temporary hydraulic-lifts for the demolition crew to get from floor to floor,as the building had been without elevators since it closed in 1983!! 😶
Nice to see Detroit growing again!
Why does it cost the same as a building twice its size?
Topped off is crazy 😂
Wow Fantastic ❤😊
So what he was saying was this is a big effing building😂😂😂😂😂
0:37 - - 12 million to demolish in 1998
0:50 - - 1.2 billion to build new in 2024
Makes you wonder what a completely restored Hudson's building would look like today, with all the other buildings being restored in the city.🤔
Too bad it couldn’t be the tallest
Waited for this since I stood a mere ONE-hundred feet away from the front entrance at implosion!! The People Mover wasn't even SCRATCHED by the falling of the 439-foot Hudsons' building!! What shut the People Mover down was the itinerant falling of chunks of brown debris falling on the track from the 200 foot pile of rubble looming OVER the track for 6 months!! At implosion the track was UNtouched!! I lost $20.00 bucks to a guy from the demolition company concerning this on October 24th 1998!! 😮
Steeple jacks??? Hell no ! Journeyman Ironworkers from Local 25 Detroit set that iron. Great job! R D local 25 (retired)
I was a Laborer on "One Detroit Center" in 1992,and I must admit,that iron workers have nerves of STEEL!!
Ooh Rah Iron Men
you couldn' get me to walk out there on one of those Beams up there for all the wealth of the world
Ayoo
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Detroit Taxes will never go down!