Detroit Bazaar<\/a>. Likely be the most depressing, heartbreaking thing you’ll see all day. What’s worse, is it was made twenty-years ago when much of the station was still intact, just after it closed. Two decades of urban-poachers have turned the place into a cement skeleton. I recall once seeing a video shown in a Windsor bar, perhaps ten years ago, of (Canadian) vandals going to the top floors and throwning toilets down the elevator shafts.<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZSeIKp1qZFI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
This video from 1999 shows what some of those folks have done to the place.<\/p>\n
Nothing can make Toronto’s troubles seem tiny like thinking about Detroit can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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