Eastown Theatre is demolished in Detroit.

[@Ben-vk4us]

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.

[@jelirestri]

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.

[@DavidMiller-qu2sr]

What a great video I enjoy watching your videos keep making great videos I like your videos a lot keep making great videos I enjoy watching your videos

[@kennye6088]

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.

[@SoCalFreelance]

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.

[@jannejohansson3383]

Now even rats leaved.

[@coweatsman]

How very sad to see such beautiful architecture being demolished.

[@coweatsman]

+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.

[@starxlr7863]

+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!

[@coweatsman]

***** 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.

[@starxlr7863]

It would be nice if the city would be rebuilt with the same architecture that would match previous and current historic buildings.

[@kylecampbell1444]

+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.

[@jeffe.1586]

I feel so heart sick when I see something like this happen. Another piece of history demolished and gone forever. What a shame !!!!!!

[@atmorgan7628]

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.

[@corneliusalterego6527]

The owner was a white GP lawyer using it as a tax write off, so your assumptions are wrong.

[@LeofromFreo]

Using the music recording from that theatre was a good touch. At least that survives.

[@omegamale7880]

And then to have the music stop. Very poignant.

[@harryandruschak2843]

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.........

[@scottcornwell2623]

Harry Andruschak end of an era

[@scottcornwell2623]

Saved a few, everything Old is like that costs millions takes huge coordinated efforts

[@michaelrichter4941]

Got to put the Dollar Tree somewhere.

[@mosesmoses2000]

JIHAD

[@blairtiffany8106]

Spent many days and nights there enjoying the music and the wonderful people.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

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.

[@robertnussberger2028]

I bet. That one section of the building in the beginning was more like bending instead of crumbling for most of the moment.

[@tomsampson8084]

That is why these old treasures are being torn down - for the steel.

[@mrbeaucastel]

Breaks my heart. Saw the Dead there. Floyd, Delany and Bonnie, Etc. Etc.

[@michaelrichter4941]

mrbeaucastel Herpes! Really bad herpes!

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Just imagine how good they would have sounded if they all hadn't been stoned while playing....

[@larryboysen5911]

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.

[@clintonflynn815]

Yes, and replaced with a mid-rise concrete-block apartment building. Sad.

[@larryboysen5911]

@@clintonflynn815 It [the apartment complex] is a fitting monument...looks exactly like a huge tombstone!

[@snoozinghipo]

The archway tiles and column tiles would have been nice to have salvaged.

[@zeusincoming282]

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.

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Would have been better if they didn’t demolish it in the first place.

[@hunterleach5710]

Old buildings like this one , it's one of those videos where I can't watch because it emotionally hurts me 😢😢😢

[@toolfreek555]

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!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

I played the ballroom in 97, I think it was.

[@ericzerkle5214]

Sad to see torn down but it was too far gone to save....

[@georgefilippello7972]

Like a lot of things in Detroit . Thats what happens when the wrong people run it .

[@SergeantExtreme]

@@georgefilippello7972 Wrong *colored people run it.

[@hardcorehenry7675]

Kind of awesome hearing the dead and not even searching it.

[@mrcrazyjonpresents4312]

That has to be the most craziest pull down i have ever seen no fencing no stop the traffic just hope for the best

[@starxlr7863]

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!!

[@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006]

StarXLR man grows up man child

[@starxlr7863]

@@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006 ??????

[@WesternSouthDakotaRailfan2006]

StarXLR nvm

[@63256325N]

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.

[@ZenDogRadio]

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.

[@swazeyyy]

@Bill Williams thanks democrats for destroying a once great city

[@Turquoise412]

@@swazeyyy keep partisan politics out of this, man.

[@SergeantExtreme]

@@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.

[@normanhopkins9438]

Last person fleeing Detroit please turn off the lights, if any.

[@dentonthaves5216]

Its' sad to see an old building go.

[@zeusincoming282]

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?

[@johngreen3543]

they did that with the White House. It could be done but it is very costly

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

​@@johngreen3543True.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

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.

[@siaripop7]

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!

[@warrenjoseph6742]

Sad part is the new buildings that replace them are nowhere near as nice.

[@northvilletunnels]

Awesome video. This one kept popping into my recommendations. Nice job, great editing and perfect music choice. Thanks.

[@Austinniya.]

And obviously there was no plan to salvage all of it's fancy trim :(

[@michaelrichter4941]

BrickToyTrains There was an old Pontiac in the back. They saved the trim from that.

[@MrDennywick]

Sad that it had be demolished and the idiots in the neighborhood can't take care of a damn thing.

[@TexasEmperor]

" idiots in the neighborhood" There is no neighborhood anymore.

[@corneliusalterego6527]

The owner wouldn’t allow it. He was a Grosse Pointe lawyer that was using it as a tax write off.

[@SergeantExtreme]

@@TexasEmperor When animals move in, it's called a zoo.

[@lewisner]

Those guys in the HI Vis jackets look to be standing way too close.

[@drpoundsign]

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??

[@natewrites]

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.

[@kylecampbell1444]

No money and the building was becoming structurally deficient.

[@roccon4246]

The building was badly damaged by a fire.

[@tannerrobinson5110]

Unfortunately good things don't last forever.

[@fredphipps7642]

I love the music alot more than the demolition!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The twisted columns were salvageable as well as the masonry, but no one has money to save these things.

[@Kaczorek2366]

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.

[@DetroitMicroSound]

The first time Kraftwerk ever played anywhere in the Midwest. Showcase, 1975.

[@northvilletunnels]

Nobody does demolition like Detroit.

[@lordieshepherd]

Feel free to upload again so we hear the demolition

[@trumetalheadonmauiey9715]

That,s not too far from my old neighborhood.

[@dodophish1]

how could this happen to my happy plce

[@scottcornwell2623]

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"!

[@SergeantExtreme]

The best explanation that I've ever seen is this right here: i.redd.it/utj1y8st0y811.jpg

[@deadfingergarage]

Destroying history one building at a time ..sad

[@josephschepis7258]

This is what America does. Tears down beautiful buildings which no longer are built.

[@davidwillard7334]

AND !! BUILDS !! MORE !! WORLD !! TRADE !! CENTRES !! INSTEAD !!OOHH !! AND !! TRUMP !! PLAZAS !!! TOO !!

[@trendmassacre8423]

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.

[@joeschlotthauer840]

Is there anything still standing in Detroit?

[@michaelrichter4941]

joe Schlotthauer white people ruined it

[@wtfhlostonparadise8278]

Fisher building is still downtown

[@manuellezamizsantos1736]

Excelente video

[@pmn2821]

Gone forever...

[@bettyprice6316]

Looks like a feeding frenzy of mechanical prehistoric monsters

[@andrewpredeth8459]

Did you get any in the job or did everything land in the street

[@TexasRailfan2008]

1:45 rip that ladder.

[@thumbsdownclub7514]

awesome, now they can put up something even better.

[@michaelrichter4941]

thumbs down club Not very smart are you

[@stevereed8786]

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.

[@stevecarlson4539]

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.

[@ronjohnson9507]

It's real easy to salvage things from buildings, finding a buyer for those items is the hard part

[@3713msg]

Very sad to watch, but what can you do? The building had outlived it's use.

[@corneliusalterego6527]

No, the owner sabotaged it.

[@rockdawg1467]

most of the abandon building in detroit have to go because they are unsafe and have to be torn down

[@who_cares848]

good start

[@natewrites]

The American way, tear everything down. Disposable society. My heart aches.

[@GeneralBurkhalter1]

There is literally no interest in these buildings. Its detroit. Most of the city is being torn down and returned to the land.

[@davidwillard7334]

AND !! LOTS !! MORE !! TRASH !! TOO !!

[@markloren9194]

Not a moment too soon. This old theater crumbled like a nilla wafer in a sauna.

[@ronalddreimanis8051]

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.

[@chillydawgg4354]

looks like a fun job how do you get into this

[@cassconner6023]

Diversity is our strength.

[@paulburns1333]

Lucky Notre Dame cathedral was in Paris and not Detroit.

[@lowielucero3304]

What will be the replacement of that former movie theaters?

[@fordnut4914]

Nothing

[@1940limited]

Is there anything left of Detroit?

[@livewire4519]

There's some trees, sidewalks, and a few old churches. That's about it.

[@georgefilippello7972]

Who would want to live or develop anything in Detroit?

[@DuckDroid]

very satisfying

[@jace1698]

Safety fence optional in Detroit?

[@brianandlindafairchild1237]

Why don't you show a clip when the job is finished .

[@WHAZE100]

Saw Emerson Lake & Palmer there spooky place with lots of dope.

[@snoozinghipo]

What's the music - which track from the Grateful Dead??

[@ronalddreimanis8051]

Dark Star tho Samson and Delilah would been a better song.

[@jens-peterreckling5542]

have you no longfront in usa ????

[@michaelrichter4941]

Jens-Peter Reckling we suck

[@wailnshred]

Did you watch the whole video? There's one of them in there.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Here, we would demand the facade be included in the new structure, but this will only entertain cars.

[@hazelwood55]

@6:42, lunch time.

[@sterlingturner8672]

Why do people always want to save these eyesores??? Tear them all down!

[@davidwillard7334]

JUST !! NUKE !! THE !! PLACE !!

[@arnaldovinagre4350]

They could have saved, at least, the stone works around the building.... very sad indeed!!!!

[@pcno2832]

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.

[@mikewinkelman7015]

All that history lost very sad .

[@frankedwards2027]

sad

[@GeraldParchester]

All gone now... Along with the people....

[@jannejohansson3383]

How that town got money to demolish that? There is much work to do still. Very neat floorprint if I got it right.

[@Wildlifesupernannyfan]

Why did they even demolished this 20th century theatre? Why didnt they referbish and list it?

[@johnerwin9024]

derelict bldg; condemned as a 'public hazard'?

[@dapain8228]

Very sad

[@NorbertTkaczykbr44ty4tkt48]

Niby zabytek, ale to już było próchno.

[@scottmmafan925]

6:08 Nice job, operator!!! He manages to bring down most of the building and get out of harm's way all at once!!!

[@governmentflu81]

Everything that is, has a time, and then it doesnt. Just like me.

[@TheRantingCabbie]

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.

[@sylc6688]

Painful to watch

[@paulbetka2966]

WELL ❗ IT'S GONE ❗ WENT PASS SUNDAY, OCT,29 2017 🇺🇸

[@stepheneggert9474]

Sad.. movie palace of the past.going down.it probably had a pipe organ in there that sang well.. during intermission..single a longs..

[@stevenherrold5955]

imagine trying to demolish an an entire town of 1 million population

[@LOUDsigh]

Main Cross streets? (Where is Maxwell?) I dnt rmbr this bldg

[@tpep1693]

Re-develop, Why would they?

[@jontallman3878]

No plans to redevelop the site or Detroit for that matter!

[@richardhead3889]

No fence no road closure, lucky no one got injured or worse.

[@skinnycat3899]

So much of that terra cotta moulding could have been saved, sad.

[@davidmiller6981]

The palace gone joe lewis gone silverdome gone the soul of detroit area gone

[@beverlyrutherford1833]

Why save it? The past is the past! If not used & kept up needs to go!

[@darronshirley7886]

Wow someone must have got a cats tail in the door that horrible squawking

[@lovelylady1966]

since money is a factor why not put citizens out everyday in groups who have no jobs and in return for their foodstamps and welfare etc. they are given clean up supplies to bag trash mow grass cut bushes and trees paint curbs etc. they have tons of abled bodied men and women sitting in the jails doing absolutely nothing put them to work.