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An Abandoned School in Detroit – Now and Then

 

Through photography, detroiturbex.com seeks to raise awareness of the social and economic challenges facing the city of Detroit. Over the course of 100 years the population level has rapidly expanded and contracted. In the 1950s the population was approximately 1.85 million, in 2010, it was 713,000.

The recent contraction means many of the buildings that were erected to support the rapid growth are now vacant and abandoned. The infrastructure was built to handle a population of 2 million. Only a third of that currently resides in Detroit.

In a fascinating series entitled Cass Tech – Now and Then, detroiturbex has created a 43-picture gallery of old photos and found the exact location of where they were taken and made a composite of the past and present.

While the original Cass Tech was left abandoned for some time, a new Cass Technical High School was built in 2004 in an adjacent lot to the north of the original building. According to Wikipedia, the original building was demolished in July of 2011.

For more urban exploration of Detroit, be sure to visit detroiturbex.com. You can also find them on Facebook

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1. Basketball game in 1988

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2. Library photos from early 90s yearbook

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3. Second Floor Hallway

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4. Classroom (couch is still there today)

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5. First floor of old auditorium

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6. Dance hall in the new wing

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7. Pep band makes their way through a crowd

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8. The former book store

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9. Hallway

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10. Librarians

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11. Old Classroom

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12. Last day of school

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13. Basketball game

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14. The arts mural on floor 3, 1988

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15. The yearbook room

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16. Old Volleyball game

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17. Library

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18. School dance

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See the Entire Series and More at detroiturbex.com

 

 

 

 

 

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