
Then-and-Now Photos of Abandoned Detroit School
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To “raise awareness of the social and economic challenges the city of Detroit,” the folks at Detroiturbex decided to tell the story about an abandoned Lewis Cass Technical High School with the help of superimposed then-and-now photos. First, they photographed every room the old Detroit school, which was abandoned after a 2007 fire. Then they put the pictures of the buzzing life from the past on top of them.
These sad pictures are a mirror of today’s Detroit. The city has suffered tremendous population increases and then rapid declines. Today, Detroit is designed for 2 million people, however, less than 1/3 or ~ 700 thousands have remained in the city. The infrastructure, built at the time of the population boom, stands abandoned, run down and an easy target for arsonists.
Update: “the school wasn’t abandoned because of a fire in 2007. A brand new, state of the art, school was completed right next door in 2005-2006 and that’s why the building was abandoned. There was a fire in the empty building in 2007, but the building was torn down last year to make way for new athletic facilities.” (thank you Samantha for the info!)
Website: detroiturbex.com
School dance
A 1988 basketball game
One of several biology labs
Second floor hallway
The library, from a picture in an early 90’s yearbook
The arts mural on floor 3, 1988
Last day of school
First floor of the old auditorium
Dance hall in the new wing
Pep band makes their way through a crowd
Volleyball match
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I had planned to attend Cass Technical High High School in 1940 after finishing Hutchins Intermediate School. However, we moved to Highland Park at that time, and so I had to attend Highland Park High instead. Who knows how much that changed my life.
Detroit, as I knew it- www.efn.org/~hkrieger/detroit.htm Herman Krieger
read the update: school burned in 2007. NEW SCHOOL BUILT 2005....ANY QUESTIONS? IT WAS NOT ABANDONED know THE HISTORY
I had planned to attend Cass Technical High High School in 1940 after finishing Hutchins Intermediate School. However, we moved to Highland Park at that time, and so I had to attend Highland Park High instead. Who knows how much that changed my life.
Detroit, as I knew it- www.efn.org/~hkrieger/detroit.htm Herman Krieger
read the update: school burned in 2007. NEW SCHOOL BUILT 2005....ANY QUESTIONS? IT WAS NOT ABANDONED know THE HISTORY