One Tank Trip - Motown/8 Mile

I left Lakewood at 10am was back by 8pm, one tank of gas. Checking out musical history and art in Detroit. ©2020 lakewoodobserver.com

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  • Great Blue Heron McGee Marsh

  • Egret

  • Killdeer

  • Bridge ver Toledo Maumee River.

  • Sign in front of Motown!

  • Museum was closed from cOVID-19

  • New development next to Hitsville.

     

  • Aretha Franklin Amphitheater

  • Atwater tunnel used in Detroit GP.

  • The Guardian Building

  • he Monument to Joe Louis, known also as The Fist,
    Dedicated on October 16, 1986, it was commissioned by Sports Illustrated magazine from the Mexican-American sculptor Robert Graham, and poured by the legendary bronze artist, Rolf Kriken, is a 24-foot-long (7.3 m) arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) pyramidal framework.

  • "The Spirit of Detroit" created by Marshall Fredericks and located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.

  • One of Detroit's fine churches.

  • City of the future, tubes and monorails.

  • Old Detroit.

  • 8-Mile

  • Scene of the rap club in "8-Mile"

  • Eminem's boy hood home, which was burned down in 2013.

  • Other homes on the street.

  • 8-Mile Mobile Homes, where Eminem lived during his teens and 20s. Also fetured in the movie "8-Mile" about his life.

  • You could own a place on Snapfinger and Urbanek!

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