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The pipe organ at Woodward Presbyterian Church in 2009. About half of the pipes had been stolen by metal thieves by this point; the rest would be gone in just a few months. It was built by the Stevens Organ Company of Marietta, Ohio, and donated by a parishoner. Read more about the history of the church here: http://detroiturbex.com/content/churches/curvy/index.html

The Jet Star roller coaster, swept off a New Jersey boardwalk by Hurricane Sandy into the Atlantic Ocean has been demolished. “At exactly 12:05, the crane operator dropped the bucket, opened its jaws wide and took a chomp out of the most photographed symbol of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction.”

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/seaside_heights_roller_coaster_3.html

The Grande Ballroom, Detroit

Student records found in a vacant school.

Drawers full of microfiche archives of periodicals left behind in a vacant school.

Fire-damaged ladder truck of the Detroit Fire Department.

Sliding doors in the library of Hanneman Elementary School

Little Champs Diner in Detroit

1910 Pakard limousine bodies being assembled by hand at the Packard plant. Each wooden auto body took months of work to bring to completion. One of these would have set you back $4,400 in 1910, or about$106,000 today.